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The Skeleton Box by Bryan Gruley – review
A very old and deep-seated secret brings to an end the Starvation Lake trilogy. It begins with a series of home invasions in the quaint Michigan town on Bingo Night, when inhabitants are obviously away...
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The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel by Anthony Horowitz – review
Maybe it’s a coming trend. First the Gershwin estate authorizes a Broadway version of “Porgy & Bess,” in an attempt to milk its assets. Then the Arthur Conan Doyle estate authorizes for the first...
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Hush Now, Don’t You Cry by Rhys Bowen – review
Finally Molly Murphy and Capt. Daniel Sullivan get married and are on their honeymoon as the book opens, only to be interrupted on the second day when Dan is recalled to duty to investigate a tunnel...
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Standing in Another Man’s Grave by Ian Rankin – review
Old soldiers may never die and John Rebus hopefully will never fade away. After a couple of years in retirement he’s back as a civilian consultant on cold cases (which seems to be becoming a trend in...
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The Stonecutter by Camilla Lackberg – review
Fjallbacka is a small village in Sweden, the setting for the author’s series, of which this is the third to be published in the US. Everyone knows everyone else, but of course that doesn’t prevent...
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The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen – review
There are all kinds of Scandinavian protagonists, but Carl Morsck, the irascible Danish detective introduced to readers in this novel, is up there with the best of them. An iconoclast, the homicide...
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Night Rounds by Helene Tursten – review
It’s taken a long time for this 1999 novel to cross the ocean, but the wait has been worthwhile. It is part of a series in which the protagonist is Inspector Irene Huss, a former Jiu-Jitsu champion,...
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The Absent One by Jussi Adler-Olsen – review
This follow-up novel in the Department Q series, in which Carl Morck made his debut in “The Keeper of Lost Causes,” is quite different from the introductory book. It is more complicated, while the...
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A Killer in the Wind by Andrew Klavan – review
There is a long history of hard-boiled detectives, but Dan Champion is unlike any of them in this eerie novel. To begin with, he doesn’t know who he is. Specifically, he has wiped from memory his early...
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The Riptide Ultra-Glide by Tim Dorsey – review
There’s nothing sane about a novel featuring Serge A. Storms and his sidekick, Coleman. There usually is a plot, but the real show is the madcap escapades and far-out situations described. And no less...
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The Golden Egg by Donna Leon
It is no mean feat to sustain a mystery series at this high a level through 18 novels. Of course, that is just what Donna Leon has accomplished, and more (this is the 19th Commissario Guido Brunetti...
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Eyes Close Tight by Peter Leonard – review
O’Clair (he goes by only one name) put in his time as a Detroit detective, bought a motel in Florida and runs it with his beautiful girlfriend, Virginia. But instead of peace and quiet, crime never...
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Runner by Patrick Lee – review
This thriller novel begins with the protagonist, Sam Dryden, going for a run on the boardwalk near his home in a little California town in the middle of the night, and the characters continue running...
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Conquest by John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard – review
John Connolly is best known as the author of the Charlie Parker mysteries and has written a trilogy for younger readers and even a modern fairy tale. Now he has turned his attention to a new series...
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Killing Custer By Margaret Coel – review
The team of Arapaho attorney Vickey Holden and Father John O’Malley are confronted with an unlikely bit of history in this latest Wind River mystery: A reenactment of the killing of Col. George Custer,...
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The Disappeared by Kristina Ohlsson – review
Scandinavian crime novels have a lot in common. And “The Disappeared” certainly reflects most of these characteristics: A police procedural, lots of murders, an unusual plot and set in Stockholm (or...
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Full Measure by T. Jefferson Parker – review
T. Jefferson Parker is a top mystery writer, but, in this narrative, chose to write a story about the trials and tribulations of returning veterans from Afghanistan. Given recent news stories about the...
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Black Horizon By James Grippando – review
Jack Swyteck, the book’s protagonist, is an accomplished defense lawyer, demonstrated in numerous previous novels in the series. However, in this entry his role as an attorney, bringing suit for...
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Without Warning By David Rosenfelt – review
It must be satisfying for an author of a popular series like the Andy Carpenter novels to write not one but two well-received standalones. This, of course, is the second, and is a thriller of the first...
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Blind Spot by Reed Farrel Coleman — review
When an author is asked to write a novel continuing a series originated by someone else, much less a master like Robert B. Parker, fundamental questions must be decided: try to imitate the style and...
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