As posted elsewhere earlier....
At RTE this week we have:
Our first issue of 2014, with
Fifteen new crime fiction reviews:
http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com
Barbara Levenson in the 'Sixty seconds with . . .' interview hot seat:
http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com/interviews.html?id=173
and our year-end lists, including my favourites for the year and our
reviewers favourite reviews
Reviews this week:
TITLE AUTHOR REVIEWER
CHILLED TO THE BONE Quentin Bates Christine Zibas
Sgt Gunnhilder of the Reykjavik force investigates the mysterious death
of a shipping magnate found naked in a posh hotel.
AN OFFICER AND A SPY Robert Harris Yvonne Klein
The infamous Dreyfus Affair, told from the perspective of a major
player, Colonel Georges Picquart, who suffered the consequences of his
inability to agree with his senior commanders in the French Army that
Dreyfus was guilty
SAINTS OF THE SHADOW BIBLE Ian Rankin Meredith Frazier
Rebus is back on the force and part of an unlikely trio headed by
Siobhan Clarke and including Malcolm Fox that investigates current
crimes that reach back 30 years into Rebus's past.
THE DYING HOURS Mark Billingham Jim Napier
London is experiencing a spate of suicides amongst the elderly, except
Tom Thorne, recently demoted to the uniform division, isn't so sure
they're suicides after all. When CID refuses to look into the cases, he
TOOTH FOR A TOOTH T. Frank Muir Sharon Mensing
DCI Andy Gilchrist attempts to solve the cold case of his brother’s
death in a hit and run when his brother’s girlfriend’s body is found in
another person’s grave 30 years after her disappearance
THE PURITY OF VENGEANCE (Audio) Jussi Adler-Olsen, Karla Jay
Cold case investigator Carl Mørck investigates the 1987 disappearance of
a half-dozen Danes, most of whom had been known to neo-Fascist
politician Curt Wad
PURGATORY Ken Bruen Yvonne Klein
Jack Taylor goes after the mysterious C33 killer, a vigilante who
targets the worst of Galway's wrong-doers and would like Jack to join
him in the crusade.
RITUALS Mary Anna Evans Sharon Mensing
In the process of organizing a private museum, Faye Longchamp finds
herself caught in the middle of a battle between traditional
spiritualists and land developers
THE EDGE OF NORMAL Carla Norton Lourdes Venard
When a young kidnapped victim is found, Reeve LeClaire, a former victim,
is asked to help her readjust. But Reeve soon finds herself looking for
two other missing girls.
THREE CAN KEEP A SECRET Archer Mayor Cathy Downs
Hurricane Irene leaves the highlands of Vermont as they are; the runoff
scours the valleys in floodwaters and exposes (a) a coffin that has only
rocks in it and (b) an old crime whose details reside in the mind of a
state mental patient who escapes a mental institution during the flood.
THE LAST DEATH OF JACK HARBIN Terry Shames Diana Borse
Retired police chief Sam Craddock is asked by the town officials to step
in informally when Jack Harbin, a blind and one-legged Gulf War veteran,
loses his father suddenly to an apparent heart attack and is soon
afterwards brutally killed.
THE HOUSE ON THE CLIFF Charlotte Williams Yvonne Klein
Jessica Mayhew, a psychotherapist, becomes involved in not altogether a
professional way with a family of Welsh theatre personalities who have a
dark secret.
POOR LITTLE DEAD GIRLS Lizzie Friend Ben Neal
A new student at an elite boarding school vows to discover the dark past
of her new school.
ONCE UPON A LIE Maggie Barbieri Diana Borse
Maeve Conlon, bakery owner and single mother of two teenage daughters,
fears that her Alzheimer's-addled father Jack will be arrested for the
murder of her cousin. As Jack can't remember, so Maeve resolves things
by taking matters into her own hands.
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO I Denise Mina & Andrea Mutti Ben Neal
Graphic novel treatment of the Stieg Larsson original.
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Yvonne Klein
Editor: ymk@reviewingtheevidence.com
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