Boston private investigator Nick Heller is nobody’s fool. Take his clients Herb Martz and Mort Vallison. Herb hired Nick to prove that his partner, Mort, was trying to kill him. Nick reached out to Mort, who took the bait. A week later, Mort came to my office to discuss business. I assured him the office…
Cat Latimer is feeling a little differently about the latest group of writers attending her retreat. For a start, they’re all coupled up and a lot more self-sufficient than most of the writers’ groups she usually hosts. So it’s actually something of a relief that their mutual enthusiasm for the outdoors means they get to…
An edgy female police detective… An ambitious FBI special agent. Together they are at the heart of the ticking-clock investigation for a psychopathic serial killer. Detective Kara Quinn, on leave from the LAPD, is on an early morning jog in her hometown of Liberty Lake when she comes upon the body of a young nurse.…
Louisa Luna turns newspaper headlines into heart-stopping thrillers. Two Girls Down introduced Alice Vega, “a private investigator known for finding the missing,” and Max “Cap” Caplan. Two girls went missing in Cap’s small Pennsylvania town and Alice (who lives in San Diego) was hired to find them. Private detective Cap knew the local scene, so…
Into the Fire is the 5th entry in Gregg Hurwitz’s hugely entertaining Orphan X series, which follows Evan Smoak, who at the age of 12 was plucked from a foster home and trained as an assassin for the government’s secret Orphan X program. He’s Jason Bourne with a touch of MacGyver and a hint of…
In Many Rivers to Cross by Peter Robinson, Inspector Banks is dragged into a disturbing world of drugs, guns, and possible sex trafficking. Like many long-running series, open-ended storylines are a feature of the Inspector Banks mysteries. Not every investigation is tied up with a neat bow on the last page. Careless Love, the last…
Focusing on the motivations, The Anatomy of a Spy by Michael Smith tells the story of why spies spy, presenting a wealth of spy stories—some previously unknown and some famous—from the very human angle of the agents themselves. I used to be a big fan of spy stories, à la James Bond, where dashing men…
In this debut novel, Raymond Fleischmann takes readers to remote Alaska where Else seeks the truth about her long lost sister from a man she knows to be a murderer. 1941. It’s been over twenty years since Elisabeth’s twin sister, Jacqueline, vanished. Else, as she’s known to friends and family, has moved on with her…
Kate Keddie’s smooth, predictable life careens off course when her husband, John, doesn’t return from a medical conference in London. A conference, she quickly discovers, he never attended. For a job he hasn’t had in months. The bigger question was where had John been for the past three months? Nausea swept through her system. Her…
The Mitford Scandal by Jessica Fellowes is the third book in the Mitford Murders series, where lady’s maid Louisa Cannon accompanies Diana Mitford into a turbulent late-1920s Europe. June 1928: Louisa Cannon, former nursery maid to the colorful Mitford family, is realizing the life of an independent career girl in London is more difficult than…
