Sunday, March 30, 2014

RTE UPDATE--- New Crime Fiction Reviews and Interview on RTE

As posted elsewhere earlier today......

At RTE this week we have

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

Simon Wood in the 'Sixty seconds with . . .' interview hot seat:

http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com/interviews.html?id=178

Reviews this week:

TITLE                    AUTHOR                REVIEWER

FROG MUSIC    Emma Donoghue        Yvonne Klein       
In the sweltering summer of 1876 in San Francisco, a young cross-dressing woman is shot and her friend seeks to find out who did it, changing her own life in the process.

THE CAIRO AFFAIR    Olen Steinhauer    Christine Zibas       
A diplomat's wife finds herself at a crossroads when her husband discovers her affair just before he is gunned down in a Budapest restaurant

BLACK HORIZON    James Grippando    Anne Corey       
Lawyer Jack Swyteck has his Florida Keys honeymoon interrupted when his new bride, an FBI agent, is called away on a secret case at the same time that a multi-national oil rig explodes in the gulf of Florida in Cuban waters, causing an environmental catastrophe and involving him in a legal case that threatens his life.

NAZIS IN THE METRO    Didier Daeninckx    Yvonne Klein       
Freelance private eye Gabriel Lecouvreur looks into the savage beating of a writer whom he admires and uncovers an unsavoury lot of neo-Fascists and their sympathizers.

CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION     Peter Robinson    Christine Zibas           
A dead body sends Alan Banks on a trip to the past to the days of student protest and working-class industrial action.

STOP DEAD    Leigh Russell        Ben Neal       
When DCI Steel is called in to investigate a murder of a successful businessman, suspicion immediately falls onto his widow and her long-time lover

I REMEMBER YOU    Yrsa Sigurdardóttir    Cathy Downs       
In the Westfjords of Iceland, the ghosts of dead children come back to torture the living until the children's bones are given proper burial

THE REVENANT OF THRAXTON HALL Vaughn Entwistle Meredith Frazier   
Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde visit a haunted, cursed country house to try to prevent one murder and solve another.

THE BAKER STREET TRANSLATION    Michael Robertson    Meredith Frazier
Reggie Heath (with a little help from his brother Nigel and girlfriend Laura Rankin) works to discover who kidnapped Lord Robert Buxton and, at the same time, to solve the murder of a man who had sought Sherlock Holmes's help with a translating problem.

JUST ONE EVIL ACT    Elizabeth George    Jim Napier       
The disappearance of a neighbour's daughter sends Barbara Havers on a quest that will take her to Italy, and before it has ended she will uncover a byzantine plot, in the process putting both her and Thomas Lynley's careers in jeopardy.

THE ACCIDENT (Audio)    Chris Pavone,    Karla Jay       
An incriminating manuscript that accuses a media mogul of a murder and cover up is making the rounds of New York's publishing world, but a black op team is trying to collect every copy of the manuscript—at whatever price.

THE RIDDLE OF SPHINX ISLAND    R.T. Raichev    Yvonne Klein       
Antonia and Hugh Payne are invited to celebrate their tenth anniversary on an island off the Devon coast where a murder may (or may not) take place.

A CIRCLE OF WIVES    Alice LaPlante    Caryn St Clair       
A well known doctor is found dead in a hotel room under suspicious circumstances and an anonymous tipster alerts the police that the man actually had three wives.

THE GIRL WITH A CLOCK FOR A HEART  Peter Swanson Sharon Mensing
A manipulative woman emerges from the past and manipulates a clueless ex-boyfriend into a dangerous web of murder and intrigue.

DEATH SPIRAL    Janie Chodosh    Deb Schoss   
DEATH SPIRAL marks the debut of the Faith Flores Science Mysteries series introducing a smart 16-year-old heroine whose aptitude for science, courage and tenacity will appeal to both YA and adult readers

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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