Revenge is a drink best served cold. So is this week's Pick Your Poison—where we create a cocktail inspired by a recently published mystery, thriller, or crime novel—the “Gamblin' Jack” cocktail, inspired by Scott Adlerberg's historical revenge thriller, Jack Waters! I bet you can't have just one…
A Taste for Nightshade by Martine Bailey is a thrilling historical novel that involves recipes, revenge, mystery, and marriage (Available January 12, 2016). Manchester 1787. When budding young criminal Mary Jebb swindles Michael Croxon's brother with a blank pound note, he chases her into the night and sets in motion… Read more
Desperate Measures by Jo Bannister is the 3rd police procedural in the series following Deadly Virtues and Perfect Sins, where Gabriel Ash discovers his kidnapped wife and kids are still alive some four years later and goes to extraordinary lengths to seek justice and save his family (Available December 8,… Read more
It's well-known that Leonard DiCaprio's mantelpiece is lacking an Academy Award. Ever since Jack Dawson perished in the icy Atlantic ocean, Leo’s put out quality movie after quality movie, only to continually fall just short when it came to winning an Oscar. At the risk of sounding like a broken… Read more
In “Apertivo,” a cadre of fractious, murderous conspirators maneuvers to converge upon Caesar (okay, Hannibal). In Republican Rome, a lamb was sacrificed to Jupiter on the ides of each month, and it was by this date in March in 44 B.C.E. that a seer is reported to have told a… Read more
In “Secondo,” Hannibal and Bedelia lounge in matching rompwear, while Jack mourns Will, who torments the tormented in the Lecter family vineyards. In the novels as here, the well-heeled Hannibal lives at Florence's beautiful Palazzo Capponi. At home in their gorgeous apartments, Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) is glum in… Read more
Mary Shaye was in the wrong place at the wrong time—crossing the road in front of Ethan Langer and his band of renegades, who were escaping on horseback after having just robbed the Epitaph town bank. She’s trampled underfoot, sadly, leaving behind a family that includes her three sons named… Read more
Little Black Lies by Sharon Bolton is a standalone mystery about a mother who, three years after her two young children disappeared, is plotting revenge (available May 19, 2015). Little Black Lies may sound like the title of cozy mystery, but don’t let the title of this amazing book fool… Read more
Impasse by Royce Scott Buckingham is a thriller about a recently-fired prosecutor who heads into the Alaskan wilderness to find himself, only to be left for dead (available March 3, 2015). Forty and facing a mid-life crisis, Stu Stark has lost his mojo. He simply gave up after being fired… Read more
The Outsiders by Gerald Seymour is an espionage thriller featuring MI5 agent Winnie Monks who follows a Russian crime czar to Spain for revenge of a brutal murder from years ago (available February 24, 2015). If you were to ask Jonno’s parents about their son, they would describe him as… Read more
