A Divided Spy by Charles Cumming is the 3rd book in the Thomas Kell series (available February 14, 2017). Charles Cumming, a British writer of spy fiction that's been called an heir to John le Carré, has written his 3rd Thomas Kell spy thriller, A Divided Spy. Cumming, once employed by MI6, writes from his…
Keys to Nowhere by Dorothy H. Hayes is the 3rd volume in the Carol Rossi Mystery series. A Tucson vacation morphs into terror when two teenage girls and their aunt vanish. When the girls’ desperate parents beg their friend and Connecticut investigative journalist Carol Rossi for help, Rossi can’t refuse. She leaves her infant daughter,…
Skies of Ash by Rachel Howzell Hall is the 2nd police procedural in the Detective Elouise Norton series set in Los Angeles where a deadly house fire looks a lot like murder (available May 19, 2015). The luscious and wise cracking Detective Elouise Norton is in a personal quandary when this LAPD police procedural Skies…
Black Karma by Thatcher Robinson is the second in the White Ginger series, featuring San Francisco’s souxun, or “people-finder,” Bai Jiang, assisting the police to locate a man whose track leads her to intelligence agencies and war merchants (available November 4, 2014). Who is this thirty-year-old beauty, this mother and wealthy Chinese-American woman who stashes…
Providence Rag, the third book in the Liam Mulligan series by Bruce DeSilva, forces a journalist to dig through his town's archives in order to keep a convicted serial killer in jail (available March 11, 2014). Bruce DeSilva, 2011 Edgar winner for Best First Novel, reflects his 41 years as a journalist in his new…
Ask Not by Max Allan Collins is historical fiction, the third novel in the Nathan Heller JFK Trilogy preceded by Bye Bye, Baby, and Target Lancer (available October 22, 2013). It’s September 1964, in Chicago, and Nathan Heller, a P.I. to the stars, and his 20 year-old son, Sam, have just gone to a…
Is it any wonder that so many of us who have read Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina at various stages of our lives feared seeing it depicted in less classical terms? Tolstoy’s novel is considered one of the best books ever written, it is included in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. It’s sacrosanct.…
Henning Mankell had every right to end his Kurt Wallander series when and how he wanted to. But couldn’t he have thought of Wallander’s loyal and long time fans, just a little? Thrown us a Scandinavian bone? We’ve had to accept that The Troubled Man was the last Wallander novel instead of expecting three or…
