Monday, February 24, 2014

RTE Update-- New at RTE this week

As posted elsewhere yesterday....

At RTE this week we have

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

Lou Allin in the 'Sixty seconds with . . .' interview hot seat:

http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com/interviews.html?id=176

New reviews this week:

TITLE                    AUTHOR                REVIEWER

THE HEADMASTER’S WIFE   Thomas Christopher Greene  Sharon Mensing
This is the story of how it happens that the headmaster of a prestigious boarding school is found wandering naked through Central Park and what actually happened to his wife.

THE FIRE DANCE     Helene Tursten    Barbara Fister       
When a dancer is found dead in a burned building, Inspector Irene Huss wonders if the death may be linked to a fire that killed the woman's stepfather years earlier

A KILLING OF ANGELS    Kate Rhodes        P D Crumbaker   
London psychologist Alice Quentin teams up with detective Don Burns once more as they race to stop a serial killer at  work in London’s financial district

RUNNER    Patrick Lee        Anne Corey       
Sam Dryden, ex-special forces, is on the run--he has become the target of a far-reaching government conspiracy as he tries to save a young girl with special powers.

WORTHY BROWN'S DAUGHTER    Phillip Margolin    Yvonne Klein       
Matthew Penny, a young lawyer newly arrived in Portland, Oregon in 1860, defends an ex-slave accused of killing his former owner in a trial held in an atmosphere of racial prejudice and corruption.

MURDER IN THE AFTERNOON    Frances Brody    Meredith Frazier   
Kate Shackleton, Jim Sykes, and Marcus Charles are called in to investigate a missing - possibly murdered - man and find that the mystery is closely tied to Kate herself.

LIFE AFTER LIFE (Audio)    Kate Atkinson        Lourdes Venard   
Ursula Todd, born in 1910, lives her life many times over, each time a bit differently

A KILLING IN THE HILLS (audio)  Julia Keller    Karla Jay   
Acker's Gap, WV, prosecuting attorney Bell Elkins has her hands full finding the murderer of three men in the local diner while she tries to hold back drug traffic.

ALMOST CRIMINAL    E. R. Brown    Jim Napier       
A seventeen-year-old boy is drawn into the world of illicit drugs to support his family, and before long he must find a way to protect himself and his family from conflicts he only dimly understands

THE AMAZING HARVEY     Don Passman    Deb Shoss       
Title character Harvey Kendall needs all his professional magician's skills to solve a murder when all the evidence points to him.

THE RAVEN'S EYE    Barry Maitland    Ben Neal   
Brock & Kolla battle bureaucratic resistance when investigating the death of a young woman who was living under an assumed identity.

DEEP WINTER    Samuel W. Gailey    Sharon Mensing   
A mentally challenged man is framed for a murder, and many more deaths occur before things get sorted out.

NIGHT TERRORS    Dennis Palumbo    Anne Corey       
Dan Rinaldi, a psychotherapist who consults on criminal investigations, is drawn into finding the perpetrator of a series of related murders as well as preventing further killings, risking his own life while doing so .

WHERE MONSTERS DWELL    Jørgen Brekke        Barbara Fister   
When a woman is gruesomely murdered in a university library in Trondheim, Norway and a rare book is stolen, it echoes a crime in the US.

THE EXECUTION    Dick Wolf    Christine Zibas           
The second in the series finds Jeremy Fisk having to join forces with Mexican police as a Mexican drug cartel threatens to bring the drug war to New York City and the UN.


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Yvonne Klein
Editor: ymk@reviewingtheevidence.com

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