Don't Tell a Soul
Publishers Weekly: Near the start of this stellar stand-alone from Rosenfelt (Play Dead), ordinary guy Timothy Wallace, still grieving for his wife, Maggie, who was blown to bits in a boating explosion on Long Island Sound a few months earlier, hears a gruesome secret from a fellow bar patron on New Year's Eve. Tim was […]
Cheating At Solitaire : a Gregor Demarkian Novel
Jo Ann Vicarel Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information – School Library Journal: When the outrageous behavior of a movie crew filming on Margaret's Harbor (a fictionalized Martha's Vineyard) results in the death of a crew member, the island's one-person police department requests the assistance of former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian. Moving slowly through the landscape […]
Quicksand
Publisher Weekly Review: The action-packed 12th installment in bestseller Johansen's saga featuring forensic sculptor Eve Duncan (after Stalemate) is also a sequel of sorts to Pandora's Daughter, which chronicled the life of Megan Blair, an Atlanta physician with burgeoning psychic abilities. Intertwining the two disparate story lines intensifies both, as Johansen pits her two courageous […]
The Killer's Wife
Mary Todd Chesnut – Library Journal: After Leigh Wren's ex-husband, Randy, is convicted and sentenced to death for killing a dozen people in a ten-year spree, she relocates to a new town, changes her name, and lives an uneventful six years as a single mom to the couple's young son, Hayden. But when the vengeful […]
The Black Dove
Ken St. Andre – Library Journal: After Gus ("Old Red") and Otto ("Big Red") Amlingmeyer solved the crime but lost the client in their last case (On the Wrong Track), they found themselves down and out in San Francisco. Here, the death of their acquaintance Dr. Chan inspires Gus to deduce what happened, but no […]
A Corpse In the Koryo
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. Inspector O of the Pyongyang Police Department is a man alone. His deceased grandfather was a national hero of the revolution, and O's brother is a high-ranking government official who has not spoken to O in years. No one is safe in the paranoia of North Korea's totalitarian regime, as […]
Hidden Moon : an Inspector O Novel
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. Last year, Church made his impressive debut with A Corpse in the Koryo; his follow-up is nothing short of brilliant. A man wearing a silk-stocking mask is run over by a bus after he has robbed a bank in Pyongyang, North Korea. The case is given to Inspector O. There […]
Heartsick
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. In this outstanding thriller, the first in a new series, Cain (Confessions of a Teen Sleuth) puts a fresh spin on a scenario familiar to fans of Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs. When someone starts dumping the bodies of teenage girls around Portland, Ore., after soaking them in […]
Glass Houses
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. The Plate Glass Killer is terrorizing Philadelphia, and the alcoholic, homeless scion of the wealthy Tyder family is arrested after being found, covered in blood, at the latest murder scene. Gregor Demarkian (Hardscrabble Road), retired head of the FBI's Behavioral Sciences Unit, is asked to investigate Tyder's bizarre behavior and […]
Gray Ghost
Publisher Weekly Review: The pleasures of the outdoors lift the second Stoney Calhoun novel (after 2004's Bitch Creek) from Tapply, best known for his many mysteries about Boston lawyer Brady Coyne (Out Cold, etc.). Stoney, who lost his memory when he was struck by lightning years earlier, knows how to tie a gray ghost?a fly […]