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Debut Novel

Fresh Meat: Blood Makes Noise by Gregory Widen

By Leslie Gilbert Elman

April 27, 2013

Blood Makes Noise, the debut novel by Gregory Widen, is an action-packed thriller based on the events before and after the death of Eva Perón (available April 30, 2013). It’s hard to articulate the effect Eva Perón had on Argentina. Her combination of charisma and chutzpah took her from what we could gently call an…

Fresh Meat: Hour of the Red God by Richard Crompton

By Jenny Maloney

April 26, 2013

Hour of the Red God by Richard Crompton is a debut novel set in Kenya (available May 7, 2013). In Richard Crompton’s Hour of the Red God, a woman is found mutilated in Uhuru Park, a normally peaceful gathering place in Nairobi, Kenya. Former Massai warrior and now-detective Mollel is called on to the case.…

Fresh Meat: A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate by Susanna Calkins

By Corrina Lawson

April 25, 2013

A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate by Susanna Calkins is a historical mystery set in London during the Restoration (available April 23, 2013). I’m the type of reader who loves a thrill ride, especially set in somewhere unfamiliar and fascinating. Which makes me not quite the right reader for this beautifully written book. A Murder at…

Fresh Meat: Penance by Dan O’Shea

By Katrina Niidas Holm

April 17, 2013

Penance by Dan O’Shea is a debut novel set in Chicago about political corruption, police detectives, and scores that must be settled (available April 30, 2013). On its face, Penance by Dan O’Shea is the story of Chicago Police Detective John Lynch and his hunt for the Confessional Killer—a madman with a sniper rifle who’s…

Fresh Meat: Follow Her Home by Steph Cha

By Neliza Drew

April 10, 2013

Follow Her Home by Steph Cha is a debut novel in which a young amateur sleuth finds that the streets of L.A. haven’t changed much since her hero Philip Marlowe was walking them (available April 16, 2013). In the debut novel from Steph Cha, Juniper Song—just Song to her friends—is on her way to her…

Reconstructing Amelia

Fresh Meat: Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight

By Katherine Tomlinson

April 1, 2013

Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight is a literary mystery wherein a mother struggles to understand the reason for her daughter’s death, and the complications of her life (available April 2, 2013). When Kate Barron is summoned to her daughter’s school by Grace Hall’s unlikable dean of academics, her first emotion is annoyance. She is annoyed…

Fresh Meat: Black Irish by Stephan Talty

By Neliza Drew

February 19, 2013

Black Irish by Stephan Talty is a police procedural involving sadistic killings in the Irish-American community of Buffalo, New York (available February 26, 2013). In Black Irish, the debut novel by best-selling nonfiction writer Stephan Talty, a killer is torturing men in the working-class, Irish-American neighborhood known as “The County,” leaving them in forgotten places…

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