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Fresh Meat: Deadly Election by Lindsey Davis

By Kate Lincoln

July 14, 2015

Deadly Election by Lindsey Davis is the 3rd historical mystery in the Flavia Alba series set in Ancient Rome (available July 14, 2015). Deadly Election, Lindsey Davis’s latest novel of ancient Rome is a rewarding read, especially given how 2016’s potential candidates are already pontificating and bloviating. Television pundits (a dirty word—not unlike the term…

Fresh Meat: The Storm Murders by John Farrow

By Kate Lincoln

May 22, 2015

The Storm Murders by John Farrow is the first procedural thriller in a planned trilogy featuring the retired Montreal detective Emile Cinq-Mars (available May 26, 2015). Who was it that said the colder the climate, the more are the mysteries? Montreal, Canada sits at a latitude south of Paris while those Nordic cities many consider…

Fresh Meat: Trauma by Michael and Daniel Palmer

By Kate Lincoln

May 10, 2015

Trauma by Michael Palmer and Daniel Palmer is a medical thriller about a neurosurgical resident, who, after an awful mistake, retreats home, where her brother's PTSD offers an irresistible medical challenge (available May 12, 2015). Who isn’t captured by the horror of a single error yanking a life off the rails, and not one's own,…

Fresh Meat: The Winter Foundlings by Kate Rhodes

By Kate Lincoln

February 22, 2015

The Winter Foundlings by Kate Rhodes is the third book starring forensic psychologist Alice Quentin who heads to a psychiatric prison to interview an inmate (available February 24, 2015). It’s hard not to draw comparisons to Silence of the Lambs when reading Kate Rhodes’ third novel, The Winter Foundlings, which continues the story of forensic…

RedDevil 4 by Eric C. Leuthardt, a techno-medical thriller

Fresh Meat: RedDevil 4 by Eric C. Leuthardt

By Kate Lincoln

February 3, 2014

RedDevil 4 by Eric C. Leuthardt is a futuristic thriller about a neurosurgeon brought to assist police with a series of horrifying murders in 2053's St. Louis (available February 4, 2014). Dr. Eric Leuthardt’s debut novel, RedDevil 4, is described as a medico-techno-thiller. It might be described also as speculative fiction, since this neurosurgeon and…

Book Review: Through the Evil Days by Julia Spencer Fleming

By Kate Lincoln

October 30, 2013

Through the Evil Days maintains Julia Spencer-Fleming‘s reputation for penning engaging police procedurals that feature strong characterizations. Plenty of bad actors people her new tale, one that soon expands out of closely-knit Millers Kill to a lake fifty miles north, during deep winter, a season Spencer-Fleming always evokes with great realism. Bitter cold backs every…

Crooked Numbers by Tim O'Mara

Fresh Meat: Crooked Numbers by Tim O’Mara

By Kate Lincoln

October 9, 2013

Crooked Numbers by Tim O'Mara is the second mystery featuring former NYPD cop turned Brooklyn teacher Raymond Donne (available October 15, 2013). A former officer and a gentle man. Tim O’Mara hit what many declared a long ball with his debut novel, Sacrifice Fly.  He might be on a streak given his second, Crooked Numbers.…

Three Can Keep a Secret, a Joe Gunther crime novel by Archer Mayor

Fresh Meat: Three Can Keep a Secret by Archer Mayor

By Kate Lincoln

September 28, 2013

Three Can Keep a Secret by Archer Mayor is the 24th procedural mystery featuring Joe Gunther and the Vermont Bureau of Investigation, in which the team is spread thin, along with the rest of law enforcement, in the disarray following Hurricane Irene (available October 1, 2013). The mountains are alive with secrets. Vermont’s Green Mountains…

Let It Burn, an Alex McKnight crime novel by Steve Hamilton

Fresh Meat: Let It Burn by Steve Hamilton

By Kate Lincoln

June 28, 2013

Steve Hamilton’s latest, Let It Burn, drives series character Alex McKnight off Michigan’s UP (Upper Peninsula) and into Detroit. The city Alex deserted years ago is now half-empty, littered with vacant lots and empty buildings, yet retains a hold on him. The former cop returns there after hearing that Darryl King, a young man he…

Thinking of Manderley: The Strange History of Stonemere

By Kate Lincoln

May 23, 2013

Watching Stonemere go up in flames, I thought of Manderley.  Yet it was a bright April afternoon when dozens of old ladies were carried by firemen and police from the hulking stone-and-shingle house. The women, on a greening lawn where they looked as helpless as newborn fawns, were wrapped in thin cotton blankets as the…

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