Sunday, November 30, 2014

RTE Update-- November 29 issue of RTE

As posted elsewhere earlier today...

The current issue of RTE, out on November 29, includes fifteen new reviews as well as a new interview:
http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com

Plus

Mark Pryor in the 'Sixty seconds with . . .' interview hot seat:

http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com/interviews.html?id=192


Reviews this week:

TITLE                    AUTHOR                REVIEWER

A NEW YORK CHRISTMAS    Anne Perry     Lourdes Venard   
 When Thomas Pitt’s daughter, Jemima, travels to New York City, she becomes embroiled in a murder mystery.

THE NIGHTINGALE BEFORE CHRISTMAS   Donna Andrews    Caryn St Clair
Meg is in charge of the Historical Society’s Designer House set to open Christmas Eve, but things become complicated when Meg finds the most difficult of the designers shot to death in the house

HELSINKI NOIR    James Thompson, Editor    Anne Corey       
A collection of short stories that shows the dark underbelly of Helsinki—a city that may have nothing that is not dark—including tales of murder, rape, betrayal, disillusionment, gangs, knifings, theft, beheadings, serial killers, and the nature of the Finnish people as a whole, to list but a few of the book's topics.

TWO SOLDIERS    Anders Roslund & Borge Hellstrom PJ Coldren       
Two members of Stockholm's Organized Crime & Gang Section take on two gang leaders in a southern suburb of Stockholm.

BROKEN MONSTERS    Lauren Beukes     Karen Chisholm       
A criminal mastermind creates violent tableaus in abandoned Detroit warehouses

THE HIDDEN CHILD    Camilla Läckberg,    Barbara Fister       
When two boys find a gruesome body, police are stymied, but a clue to this murder may lie in the war diaries of reporter Erika Falck's mother

SWEET SUNDAY    John Lawton    Yvonne Klein       
Turner Raines, ex-Freedom Rider, ex-lawyer, ex-journalist turned skip tracer is launched on an odyssey around the United States as he tries to uncover the facts behind his best friend's murder.

THE LAWS OF MURDER    Charles Finch      Meredith Frazier   
After leaving Parliament, Charles Lenox and three friends open Victorian London's first detective agency only to be met with unexpected obstacles and the murder of a friend.

CAUGHT DEAD    Andrew Lanh        146420330X       
One of the beautiful Le sisters, a pillar of the Vietnamese community of Hartford, is killed in a known drug-infested section of the city, but what was she doing there?

STARS GO BLUE    Laura Pritchett     Sharon Mensing   
Ben Cross, a Colorado rancher, is suffering from Alzheimer's but does not let that keep him from exacting revenge upon his daughter's murderer

NIGHT OF THE WHITE BUFFALO   Margaret Coel     Sharon Mensing       
Cowboys are missing from a buffalo ranch in Wyoming when a white buffalo calf is born.

THE SECRET PLACE (Audio)     Tana French    Karla Jay   
An anonymous note leads to the reopening of a case involving the murder of a high school boy on the grounds of a girls' boarding school near Dublin.

RUTHLESS    Cath Staincliffe    Jim Napier           
DCs Rachel Bailey, Janet Scott and their boss, Gill Bailey, wage a war on two fronts as they try to solve a series of murders while dealing with escalating family tensions. Before it is over there will be deaths on both fronts.

DEADLY RUSE    E. Michael Helms    Paris Abell       
Private detective Mac McClellan stumbles onto a complicated conspiracy when he looks into the supposed death of his girlfriend's former fiancé.


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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