As posted elsewhere earlier today....
RTE's third summer issue (August) contains fifteen new crime fiction
reviews:
http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com
Plus
M.J. McGrath in the 'Sixty seconds with . . .' interview hot seat:
http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com/interviews.html?id=185
Reviews this week:
TITLE AUTHOR REVIEWER
VENGEANCE IS MINE Reavis Z. Wortham Cathy Downs
Miss Becky and Ned's grandchildren, Top and Pepper make friends with
newcomers to town without realizing that they are members of the Mob in
hiding.
ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE Anthony Doerr Sharon Mensing
A young WWII German radioman searches for French partisan broadcasts
while a German mineralogist searches for a missing diamond, and a young
blind girl finds herself in the dangerous center of both searches.
NATCHEZ BURNING Greg Iles PD Crumbaker
Penn Cage, former Texas prosecutor and now mayor of Natchez,
Mississippi, tries to protect his father against a present-day murder
charge and discovers that this man, who has seemingly lived an
exemplary life, is connected in some way to racially-motivated crimes
committed decades earlier by members of a violent offshoot of the Ku
Klux Klan.
NO SAFE HOUSE Linwood Barclay Yvonne Klein
Terry and Cynthia Archer, who narrowly escaped death in NO TIME FOR
GOODBYE, find themselves once again under threat as their past comes
back to haunt them.
THE BONE SEEKER M. J. McGrath Barbara Fister
One of Edie Kiglatuk's students is found murdered and mutilated in a
shallow lake located in a part of the tundra the Inuit consider evil.
PRESENT DARKNESS Malla Nunn Karen Chisholm
Set in the corrupt, unforgiving world of apartheid South Africa, this
novel in the Detective Emmanuel Cooper series follows Cooper as he faces
a test of loyalty and friendship.
HELL TO PAY Gary Disher Yvonne Klein
A newly demoted police constable, exiled to an isolated bush town, has
to deal with police corruption, cronyism, and suspicions about his own
honesty.
THE DEVIL MAY CARE David Housewright Sharon Mensing
McKenzie agrees to help the daughter of a very rich man find her missing
boyfriend and, in the process, stumbles upon a major crime ring.
BY ITS COVER Donna Leon Jim Napier
When some irreplaceable volumes of antiquarian books go missing from a
private library in Venice, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his team find
themselves in an unfamiliar world, in search of not only a thief, but a
killer.
ICE SHEAR M.P. Cooley Megan Sweeney
After finding the local congresswoman's daughter impaled on a fence by
the waterfall, small town cop June Lyons is forced to reconcile her
former FBI past and political difficulties in Hopewell Falls, NY the
town where she grew up and now lives.
A DARK AND TWISTED TIDE Sharon Bolton Lourdes Venard
Lacey Flint has moved to the London police's marine unit in order to
avoid any high-profile cases, but soon enough she's enmeshed in a murder
case.
THE BONE ORCHARD Paul Doiron Caryn St Clair
Bowditch's former partner shoots a veteran in a "suicide by cop"
situation and is then herself shot. Bowditch works his way into the
investigation
THE DEAD WILL TELL Linda Castillo Diana Borse
Police Chief Kate Burkholder is faced with not one but two suicides in
the sleepy rural town of Painters Mill, Ohio which are quickly seen as
murders connected somehow to the local Amish community, to several
deaths, unresolved for more than thirty years, and to ghosts.
THE RED ROOM Ridley Pearson Christine Zibas
John Knox and Grace Chu team up again, this time in exotic Istanbul.
HOT LEAD, COLD IRON Ari Marmell PJ Coldren
P.I. Mick Oberon tracks down the changeling child of a mobster and his wife
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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