Sunday, January 26, 2014

RTE--- New Crime Fiction Reviews on RTE

As posted elsewhere earlier today....

At RTE this week we have

Fifteen new crime fiction reviews:
http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com

Nele Neuhaus  in the 'Sixty seconds with . . .' interview hot seat:

http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com/interviews.html?id=174

Reviews this week:

TITLE                    AUTHOR                REVIEWER


THE WAYS OF EVIL MEN    Leighton Gage        P.J. Coldren       
Federal Police Chief Inspector Mario Silva and his team are sent to investigate the possible genocide of a tribe of indigenous people near a small town in rural Brazil.

DOMINION    C J Sansom        Yvonne Klein       
In a Britain which, in 1952, has been a client state of a triumphant Nazi Germany for over a decade, certain civil servants respond to Churchill's exhortation to "never surrender," and act as an underground resistance cell to undermine German power.

THE DEAD IN THEIR VAULTED ARCHES   Alan Bradley    Yvonne Klein   
In her sixth appearance, almost twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is confronted with a suspicious death and learns much about her own family that she never knew.

THEN WE TAKE BERLIN    John Lawton    Anne Corey       
In 1963, John Holderness, known as Wilderness, an undercover burglary operative for the British secret service, is lured back to Berlin to facilitate an escape from East Berlin, through the tunnels he had used after WWII for smuggling goods.

CROSS AND BURN    Val McDermid        Jim Napier       
Forensic psychologist Dr. Tony Hill and ex-DCI Carol Jordan, struggle to rebuild their lives after a vicious killer has wrecked havoc on them. But even as they struggle within themselves, a new terror is on the loose in Bradfield: someone is kidnapping, murdering and mutilating young women, and his actions will test their already-severely-strained relationship.

BAD WOLF     Nele Neuhaus         Paris Abell                 
German police Inspectors Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein investigate seemingly unrelated crimes, only to uncover a monstrous conspiracy that goes to the highest levels of German society

DEAD TO ME    Cath Staincliffe    Meredith Frazier   
Newly partnered Manchester cops Janet Scott and Rachel Bailey investigate the murder of seventeen-year-old Lisa Finn while navigating the complicated personal and professional relationships of their own lives.

THE HARLOT'S TALE    Sam Thomas        Diana Bourse       
In 17th century York a prostitute and her client are found horridly murdered and Lady Bridget Hodgson is summoned to the scene by Joseph, brother to her deceased husband, to help him figure out what has happened and to ferret out information from those in the city who will never talk to him

THE HANGING JUDGE    Michael Ponsor    Yvonne Klein       
The author draws on his own experience on the bench in this legal thriller centred on a Federal death penalty case tried before a judge who is not in favour of capital punishment.

THE LOST GIRLS OF ROME    Donato Carrisi        Christine Zibas       
A forensic scientist with the Rome police investigates the murder of her husband and uncovers a trail that leads to an ancient secret society.

THE ORPHAN CHOIR    Sophie Hannah    Caryn St Clair
A seriously depressed woman starts out having a feud with her neighbor over the volume of his music and ends up being haunted by music that no one else hears.

THE WRONG QUARRY    Max Allan Collins    P.J. Coldren    
Quarry has a new twist on his profession but he may have played it wrong this time around.

BLOOD PROMISE    Mark Pryor     Sharon Mensing       
Hugo Marston is assigned to babysit for a xenophobic U.S. Senator in France, but nonetheless finds himself in the midst of a murder investigation

THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC    Mary Jane Clark    Meredith Frazier   
Piper Donovan, still recovering from a traumatic attempt on her life, travels to New Orleans to work at the renowned French Quarter bakery Boulangerie Bertrand and finds herself in the middle of a string of serial killings with links to voodoo.

THE KILL ORDER    Robin Burcell        Paris Abell       
FBI Agent Sydney Fitzpatrick uncovers a code that poses a serious threat to national security, but that also might unlock the secret behind her father's death.

We post more than 900 new reviews a year -- all of them are archived on the site -- as well as a new interview with a top author every issue.

Yvonne Klein
Editor: ymk@reviewingtheevidence.com
 

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