Sunday, December 15, 2013

RTE Holiday Issue

As posted elsewhere earlier today...

At RTE this week we have

Our year-end holiday issue, with

15 new crime fiction reviews:

http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com

Christopher Fowler  in the 'Sixty seconds with . . .' interview hot seat:

http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com/interviews.html?id=172

Reviews this week:

TITLE                    AUTHOR                REVIEWER

A CHRISTMAS HOPE        Anne Perry    Lourdes Venard   
In Anne Perry's annual Christmas offering, Claudine Burroughs, part of London,s upper-class clique, challenges the conventions of society to find the real killer of a prostitute.

SPIRIT OF STEAMBOAT    Craig Johnson   Sharon Mensing   
On Christmas eve past, Longmire must find a way to transport a dying girl to a hospital where her burns can be treated and her life saved, even in the midst of a raging storm.

TEN LORDS A-LEAPING    C.C. Benison       
Having damaged his ankle skydiving for charity, the Reverend Tom Christmas is recuperating at a stately home where a series of puzzling murders takes place.

SILENT KNIFE    Shelley Freydont    Sarah Dudley       
When a counterfeit Santa is murdered, Liv Montgomery must clear the town's Santa's name and save Christmas for the town of Celebrations Bay.

THE INVISIBLE CODE    Christopher Fowler    Yvonne Klein       
The venerable detectives Bryant & May are retained by the loathed head of Home Security, Oskar Kasavian, to investigate the sudden bizarre behaviour of his wife.

THE MINOR ADJUSTMENT BEAUTY SALON  Alexander McCall Smith
With her assistant on maternity leave, Mma Ramotswe, Botswana's No.1 Ladies' Detective, must solve two cases, one involving defamation of character, and another concerning the legitimacy of a young heir.

PAGAN SPRING    G.M. Malliet    Ben Neal       
Vicar Max Tudor is once again thrust into the investigation into a murder of one of his most despised townspeople

SYCAMORE ROW (Audio)    John Grisham    Karla Jay   
After Seth Hubbard hangs himself and leaves a new, handwritten will giving his fortune to his Black housekeeper, Hubbard's kin and their offspring descend on a rural Mississippi county to claim the twenty million dollar estate.

THE PRISONER OF THE RIVIERA    Janice Law    Christine Zibas       
The young painter, Francis Bacon, finds himself involved in a complicated plot as a result of his trying to clear his gambling debts.

USA NOIR     Johnny Temple, ed.    Jim Napier       
A collection of contemporary noir fiction spanning the continental US, selected from Akashic's City Noir series, and including many literary luminaries

THE GODS OF GUILT    Michael Connelly    Anne Corey   
Criminal defense lawyer Mickey Haller takes on the case of a pimp accused of murdering one of his girls and over the course of many months and plot twists links her death with a rogue DEA agent and a series of other crimes.

AN OLD BETRAYAL    Charles Finch        Cathy Downs       
Charles Lenox, now an MP, in searching for a man who has been harassing a woman of mysterious parentage, discovers a plot against the queen, a philanderer who is not what he seems, a woman who has found a way to subvert "the woman question," and a bit of political plotting against - himself

THE BONES OF PARIS    Laurie R. King    Ann Pearson   
Private detective Harris Stuyvesant's search for a missing American girl takes him on a macabre adventure in the Bohemian world of Paris in 1929.

THE PRINCE OF RISK    Christopher Reich    Christine Zibas       
A plot to destabilize the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is uncovered by the head of the exchange, who just happens to be the estranged father of a hedge fund manager. His son then must find out who killed his father.

DEATH OF THE DEMON    Anne Holt    Barbara Fister       
When the head of a children's home is murdered, Hanne Wilhemsen needs to talk to a 12-year-old boy with severe behavioral problems – but he has gone missing.

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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