As the Pig Turns : an Agatha Raisin Mystery
Library Journal A post-Christmas pig roast goes horribly awry when the "pig" on the spit turns out to be a local policeman. Agatha's agency investigates, of course, in this long-running series
Wicked Autumn : a Max Tudor Novel
Library Journal Agatha Award-winning author Malliet (Death of a Cozy Writer) debuts a superb new series. Imagine for a moment that Max Tudor, a disillusioned former MI5 agent, has become an Anglican priest. So now he's the vicar in this small idyllic village with all its foibles and strong personalities. Wanda Batton-Smythe, a much reviled, […]
A Trick of the Light : a Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
Library Journal This follow-up to the Agatha Award-winning Bury Your Dead finds Armand Gamache, chief inspector of the Montreal police force, and Beauvoir, his lieutenant, still healing physically and psychologically from a fatal police operation gone awry. But this doesn't prevent them from taking on yet another murder case in the secluded village of Three […]
Where the Shadows Lie
Library Journal Boston detective Magnus Jonson, an Icelandic American, is sent on temporary assignment to work with the Icelandic police force after uncovering a police corruption scandal that endangered his life. On arriving in Reykjavík, he immediately joins an investigation into a puzzling death at a lake resort. It turns out a professor was murdered […]
The Law of Angels
Library Journal: Abbess Hildegard's quiet stay in rural medieval Yorkshire is disrupted when Brother Thomas brings her two young girls to protect. Clearly, her charges need protecting because soon the small religious community is on the run, their peaceful home destroyed by villains on horseback. The secrets one of the girls carries endanger them all, […]
Now You See Me
Publishers Weekly Bolton's fourth thriller, a complex psychological puzzler, stands head and shoulders above other such efforts featuring a modern copycat Jack the Ripper. On the anniversary of the original Ripper's first killing, Det. Constable Lacey Flint is horrified to find a dying woman, "her abdomen… a mass of scarlet," leaning against the detective's car […]
The Crack In the Lens
The New York Times – Marilyn Stasio: Two late-19th-century cowboy brothers who become so caught up in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes that they turn themselves into Wild West "deducifiers" in the manner of Holmes and Watson—how cute is that? Not only cute but clever, as Steve Hockensmith demonstrates in The Crack in the Lens […]
The Lock Artist
The Washington Post – Fiona Zublin Hamilton…understands what's truly scary, what's truly suspenseful…While the structure of the book seems at first as simple as its aggressively unstylish prose, it shifts quickly from a teenage love story to a heist-gone-wrong. The racing conclusion feels inevitable but entirely fresh.
Outwitting Trolls
Library Journal Tapply, a prolific writer of over 40 works of fiction and nonfiction, built his reputation on his Brady Coyne mystery series. Coyne, a Boston lawyer keen on fly-fishing and the Red Sox, with an ex-wife, disaffected grown children, a trusty dog, and a string of girlfriends, now makes his final appearance. (Beginning with […]
A Stranger In Mayfair
Library Journal: In his fourth outing (after The Fleet Street Murders), Charles Lenox is asked to investigate the murder of a young footman, bludgeoned to death in the alley beside the house where he works. Lenox, busily preparing to begin his career in Parliament, hands the case to his young assistant, Lord Darlington. But circumstances […]