Red Kenny is on her senior year road trip from her home in Philadelphia to the Gulf coast with her best friend, Maddy Lavoy. Simon Yoo, their good friend since middle school, has borrowed an RV from his rich uncle for the drive. Maddy’s 21 year-old brother Oliver is their nominal chaperone, as he and…
Canary by Duane Swierczynski follows Sarie Holland, a freshman honors student caught up as a confidential informant, who is tasked with trying to help take down a drug ring, while keeping on top of her studies. When I opened Canary, Duane Swierczynski’s complex Edgar-nominated thriller, I had no idea what to expect. Since I had…
Nightstruck by Jenna Black, author of Glimmerglass, is the start of a spooky, yet romantic, dark paranormal horror series (Available April 5, 2016). The night is the enemy, and the city of Philadelphia is its deadliest weapon. Becket is an ordinary teenage girl, wrestling with the upheaval of her parents' divorce. A studious high school…
Hangman's Game by Bill Syken is the debut mystery in the Nick Gallow series about a professional fooball player who gets caught up in a murder investigation after witnessing a teammate's gruesome death (available August 18, 2015). Until recently, football had always been a six-month sport, using Labor Day and Groundhog Day as approximate bookends,…
Concrete Angel by Patricia Abbott is familial thriller set in 1970's Philadelphia about a wicked mother and her children who learn the only way to survive is to fight back (available June 9, 2015). Evelyn (Eve) Moran and her twelve-year-old daughter, Christine, are in their home, hovering over the corpse of a dead man that…
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The Friendship of Criminals by Robert Glinski is a mob-feuled thriller focused on Anton, an aging Polish crime boss in Philadelphia who refuses to let the Italians take his territory (available March 17, 2015). Polish crime boss Anton Bielakowski has been a fixture in Port Richmond for many years. No one has ever defied him…
Betrayed by Lisa Scottoline is the 13th book in the Rosato & Associates series featuring attorneys Bennie Rosato and Mary DiNunzio (available November 25, 2014). You can listen to an exclusive audio excerpt below! This installment in the series centers around attorney Judy Carrier, one of the lawyers working with Rosato and DiNunzio. Poor Judy…
What started as a rescue story turned out to be a marriage beyond repair when a man in the middle of a divorce sent his estranged wife's red Corvette into the Delaware River. According to CBS Philly's Diana Rocco and Justin Udo: Police say a 50-year-old husband angry with his estranged wife dumped the car…
Fighting Chance by Jane Haddam is the 29th mystery in the Gregor Demarkian series about the Armenian-American detective (available September 9, 2014). Gregor Demarkian is in the throes of investigating a bank foreclosure on a house owned by a friend, and for which the bank instituting the foreclosure has no mortgage, when Father Tibor Kasparian…
