Sunday, January 25, 2015

RTE Update--- January 24 2015 Issue of RTE

As posted elsewhere earlier today....

The current issue of RTE, out on January 24th, includes fifteen new reviews as well as a new interview:
http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com

Plus

Becky Masterman in the 'Sixty seconds with . . .' interview hot seat:

http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com/interviews.html?id=195



NEW REVIEWS THIS WEEK:

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN    Paula Hawkins    Reviewed by Yvonne Klein   
On her daily commute into London, Rachel fantasizes about the lovely life led by a couple she sees from the train every morning in their back garden, until one day she sees something so shocking that she is unwisely impelled to interfere in their lives.

ONE STEP TOO FAR    Tina Seskis.    Reviewed by Christine Zibas   
What would make a successful, happily married woman disappear from her own life, leaving no trace?

THE BLUE JOURNAL    L. T. Graham.      Reviewed by Sharon Mensing
Walker investigates the murder of a woman who had been writing a diary about her sexual conquests in a wealthy Connecticut suburb

FEAR THE DARKNESS   Becky Masterman.  Reviewed by Megan Sweeney   
After her sisters in law's untimely death, Brigid and her new husband take in Bridgid's teenaged niece, Gemma Kate. Not long after Gemma Kate moves in things start to go wrong.

A FINE SUMMER'S DAY    Charles Todd.     Reviewed by PJ Coldren       
Detective Ian Rutledge connects a series of seemingly unrelated cases in an England teetering on the edge of The Great War.

AS CHIMNEY SWEEPERS COME TO DUST.  Alan Bradley.Reviewed by Yvonne Klein
Abruptly banished from her ancestral home, Flavia de Luce is transported across the sea to a girls' boarding school in Toronto, where she is immediately confronted by a mummified corpse stuffed up a chimney.

MURDER AT THE BOOK GROUP   Maggie King.    Reviewed by Phyllis Onstad
Romance writer untangles the secrets and jealousies that lead to a book club poisoning; all told with a light, humorous touch.

FIVE MINUTES ALONE    Paul Cleave.    Reviewed by Karen Chisholm   
Someone is helping rape victims wreak revenge on their attackers and Theo Tate and Carl Schroder find themselves on opposite sides in the attempt to stop him.

BRED TO KILL    Franck Thilliez.    Reviewed by Anne Corey       
Horrific violence may be linked to a prehistoric virus, and both Inspector Franck Sharko and ex-police officer Lucie Henebelle are drawn into the search for the scientists who have manipulated this virus to create modern-day monsters

SONS OF SPARTA  Jeffrey Siger. Reviewed by Sharon Mensing       
The death of a crime boss in the Mani, at the southern tip of the Peloponnese, leads to an investigation of the corruption that permeates Greek society.

HIGH STAKES    John McEvoy.    Reviewed by Meredith Frazier    `
While assisting the FBI solve a series of deaths of retired racehorses, Jack Doyle finds himself involved in a number of crimes both on and off the racetrack, and the intrigue reaches from Chicago to Ireland.

SHARK SKIN SUITE    Tim Dorsey.    Reviewed by Peter Flom`
Serge Storms teams up with new lawyer Brook Campanella to right some wrongs in Florida.

DYING FOR THE PAST    T.J. O'Connor.    Reviewed by Ben Neal   
Former detective, now dead Oliver "Tuck Tucker is doing his best to prove that ghosts know how to have a good time—until a man is murdered in cold blood on the dance floor.

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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