Sunday, February 08, 2015

RTE Update--February 7 issue of RTE

As posted elsewhere earlier today....

 The February 7, 2015  issue of RTE is out and includes fifteen new reviews as well as a new interview:
http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com

Plus

Ausma Zehanat Khan in the 'Sixty seconds with . . .' interview hot seat:

http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com/interviews.html?id=196



Reviews this week:

TITLE                    AUTHOR                REVIEWER

THE UNQUIET DEAD    Ausma Zehanat Khan    Yvonne Klein       
Detectives Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty of the federal Canadian Community Policing Section are given what appears to be a puzzling assignment - to investigate the apparent accidental death of wealthy Christopher Drayton, puzzling because the CPS is tasked with handling sensitive cases involving minority issues. But its relevance rapidly becomes very clear.

THE ICE QUEEN    Nele Neuhaus    Anne Corey   
When Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver Bodenstein discover that the body of a murder victim, an old Jewish holocaust survivor, bears the unmistakable tattoo of the SS, they begin an investigation that soon includes other murders, other false identities and secrets from the past

THE WOLF AND THE LAMB    Frederick Ramsay    Diana Borse   
Gamaliel is summoned to the Antonia Fortress by Pontius Pilate, now a prisoner accused of murder.  With his friend, the physician Loukas, Gamaliel seeks the truth and justice, walking a tightrope of danger from both the Romans who distrust him and his own people who hate Pilate.

THE GIRL WHO WASN’T THERE    Ferdinand von Schirach    Jim Napier
The story traces the life of a peculiar and gifted young man from the age of ten until he is arrested for murder. But the victim is nowhere to be found.

THE BEIGE MAN    Helene Tursten     Barbara Fister       
Police pursuing two kids after a fatal hit-and-run incident discover something unexpected: a dead girl and an ugly sex trafficking operation.

CITY OF FALLEN ANGELS    Howard Engel        Jim Napier       
Against his will journalist Mike Ward is transferred from covering the war in Europe in 1940 to Hollywood, where he rubs shoulders with film greats while investigating the alleged suicide of a star's husband.

PHANTOM ANGEL    David Handler    Deb Shoss       
Morrie Frankel, one of Broadway’s legendary producers, hires PI Benji Golden to find the missing "angel" who had been about to bankroll his latest musical.

DEAD RED    Tim O'Mara    Cathy Downs           
A sniper shoots Raymond's friend, returning Iraqi veteran Ricky Torres, and when Angela Golden, daughter of a wealthy politico in New York Politics, goes missing, Raymond works to solve both crimes.

THE BURNING ROOM (Audio)    Michael Connolly    Karla Jay
Harry Bosch and new partner, Lucy Soto, discover that a cold case shooting of a mariachi performer is tied to an arson murder and burglary.

THE ESCAPE        David Baldacci        Anne Corey       
John Puller is ordered to find his brother Robert who has escaped from the maximum security prison where he was serving a life sentence for treason, but what Puller discovers is a massive cover-up and web of lies that threaten his family and his country.
AMONG THIEVES    John Clarkson    Christine Zibas       
When white collar crime on Wall Street intersects with organized crime in Brooklyn, there can only be deadly results. Who started the deadly domino collapse may come as a surprise, as thieves switch sides.

DEATH IN THE PINES    Thom Hartmann    Diana Borse       
Former CIA operative Oakley Tyler has retreated to an isolated cabin in the Vermont woods to regather himself after his P. I. partner's death. Jeremiah Smith asks Tyler to look into a threat to his grandson, but Smith is murdered in a hit-and-run and Tyler begins an investigation without a client or a fee, much less any real information,  and becomes part of an environmental nightmare complete with greedy businessmen and an ethereal Native American presence

THE SIRENA QUEST    Michael A. Kahn        Christine Zibas    
Just in time for their college reunion, a group of roommates (now middle-aged) go on a search for their New England's school missing legendary sculpture

A WOMAN UNKNOWN    Frances Brody    Meredith Frazier   
Kate Shackleton is hired to track the movements of pretty Deidre Fitzpatrick and quickly gets caught up in a murder investigation that involves a well-known artist, a shady American, an actor, and even some of Kate’s own acquaintances

A NIP OF MURDER        Carol Miller    Caryn St Clair       
Cream cheese is stolen from a bakery, a group of geocachers are holding a meet, a new nip joint has opened and two people are murdered. How does it all fit together?

Yvonne Klein
Editor: ymk@reviewingtheevidence.com

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