Sunday, April 27, 2014

RTE This Week--- New Crime Fiction Reviews at RTE - A Milestone Issue

As posted elsewhere earlier today and sharing here with sincere heartfelt congratulations on an epic achievement....

 At RTE this week we celebrate posting our 10,000th review, all of which are archived and available - just use our search function. But we also have

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

Lev Raphael in the 'Sixty seconds with . . .' interview hot seat:

http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com/interviews.html?id=180

Reviews this week:

TITLE                    AUTHOR                REVIEWER
SECRECY    Rupert Thomson    Yvonne Klein       
Zummo, a late 17th century sculptor in wax, arrives in Florence and is employed by Duke Cosimo III to sculpt a life-size woman to replace his absent wife.

YET ANOTHER DEATH IN VENICE    Tim Heald    Christine Zibas       
British Board of Trade detective Simon Bognor tries to find out who shot a UK film director with a crossbow while he was on a visit to Venice.

THE LONG SHADOW    Liza Marklund    Barbara Fister       
Swedish reporter Annika Bengtzon heads to Spain to cover the murder of a Swedish family in a part of the Costa del Sol that is home to luxury-loving Swedes – and a lot of corruption.

DEAD PEOPLE    Ewart Hutton    Sharon Mensing       
Sergeant Capaldi discovers a series of dead and buried bodies in the vicinity of a new wind farm and must fight both the murderer and the police establishment to uncover the truth.

THE RED ROAD (Audio)   Denise Mina    Karla Jay       
The latest in the Alex Morrow series offers a searing view of contemporary Glasgow through the lens of two murders that took place in the 1990s.

DEATH MONEY    Henry Chang        Yvonne Klein       
Called uptown to aid in the investigation of the death of a young Asian man, NYPD detective Jack Yu has trouble even identifying the victim, let alone discovering why he was killed.

DEATH ON BLACKHEATH    Anne Perry    Anne Corey       
The mutilated corpses of attractive young women which keep turning up in a gravel pit near the home of a scientist doing important government work may not be what they appear to be and create a challenging situation for Thomas Pitt, who must solve the crimes and discover what is really at stake.

THE MARATHON CONSPIRACY    Gary Corby    Sarah Dudley   
Nicolaos must solve the murder of a missing school girl, locate another missing daughter and solve the murder of a tyrant, who was believed to have died in battle but whose skeleton was located in a cave near the Sanctuary of Artemis

EVERYTHING TO LOSE    Andrew Gross        Diana Borse   
Hilary Cantor, divorcee with deadbeat ex, newly unemployed and caring for a handicapped child, discovers and steals half a million dollars that she finds in the wrecked car of the dead driver she meant to help -- lots of others want the money, many of them really bad people.

WARRIORS    Ted Bell    Christine Zibas       
Counterspy Alex Hawke must rescue a kidnapped American scientist as the United States and China move dangerously close to all-out nuclear war in this adrenaline-fueled thriller.

BLOOD ALWAYS TELLS  Hilary Davidson    Paris Abell       
Dominique Monaghan comes up with a plan to exact revenge on her cheating ex, but then the tables are turned on them both, leaving her brother, Desmond, to find out what truly happened.

WITHOUT WARNING David Rosenfelt     Anne Corey       
The opening of a buried time capsule begins a series of murders that directly involve small town police chief Jake Robbins, who is either a demonic killer or the victim of an elaborate revenge plot.

THE POOR BOY'S GAME    Dennis Tafoya    Cathy Downs   
Frannie and Mae Mullen's father, a thug in the protection racket in Philadelphia, burned their mother to death when they were children; now he has escaped prison and is hunting down his daughters.

MORIARTY RETURNS A LETTER  Michael Robertson     Meredith Frazier
Reggie Heath and Laura Rankin's trip to announce their engagement is interrupted by a schizophrenic murderer with possible connections to a crime dating back to 1893, as well as more recent evils

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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