Unto Us a Son Is Given is the twenty-eighth novel in Donna Leon’s best-selling mystery series. The apparent indiscretion of an elderly family friend involves a reluctant Commissario Guido Brunetti . . . until the sudden natural death of his friend sets in motion a murder. Each Donna Leon novel I read is a gift.…
Track a stalker. Catch a killer. The Death Messenger is a tense police procedural following The Silent Room in the thrilling Matthew Ryan series by Mari Hannah. In the Acknowledgements section at the end of the novel, author Mari Hannah indicates that the two lead protagonists in The Death Messenger — Matthew Ryan and Eloise O’Neill —…
In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin is a gripping story of corruption and consequences where a cold case involving a missing private investigator threatens to unearth skeletons from Rebus’s past. Hard-hitting, gritty crime fiction is synonymous with Scottish author Ian Rankin. For decades, he has seen his books become chart toppers internationally, and his…
Bury the Lead by Archer Mayor is the 29th book in the Joe Gunther series, where Gunther and the VBI team are investigating a murder and an arson case―both potentially related to an outbreak of Ebola. The lead or the lede? It is this question that opens Bury the Lead, the latest Joe Gunther novel by…
The Night Crossing by Robert Masello is a historical mystery featuring the famous author Bram Stoker. Robert Masello steps away from his regular work, which includes some first-rate historically and supernaturally based fiction, and jumps full fledge into a realm of historical fiction that includes real and created characters operating together at a specific historic period…
