RTE Update

The August 1, 2015 issue of RTE is out and includes fifteen new reviews as well as a new interview:
http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com

Plus

Kate White in the 'Sixty seconds with . . .' interview hot seat:

http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com/interviews.html?id=206

Reviews this week:

THE TRUTH AND OTHER LIES    Sascha Arango Reviewed by Yvonne Klein   
Henry Hayden presents himself as an accomplished novelist. He isn't, though his wife is, and his name isn't Henry Hayden either. The women closest to him do have an unfortunate habit of winding up prematurely dead, however.

ONE NIGHT IN MISSISSIPPI     Craig Shreve    Reviewed by Craig Sisterson   
After fifty years of guilt over his brother’s murder in Civil Rights-era Mississippi, drifter Warren Williams decides to renew his fight to bring those responsible to justice.

THE PRECIPICE    Paul Doiron    Reviewed by Sharon Mensing   
Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch searches for clues regarding the death of two through hikers on the Appalachian Trail while attempting to rescue his girlfriend from her abductor.

HIGH COUNTRY NOCTURNE    JON TALTON    Reviewed by Anne Corey   
Detective and historian David Mapstone finds his life threatened and his wife mortally wounded as he struggles to prove his partner Mike Peralta did not go rogue and steal millions in diamonds.

THE FIXER (Audio)    Joseph Finder; Steven Kearney    Reviewed by Karla Jay       
Investigative journalism, Boston, Cambridge, MA, bagman, the Big Dig, payoffs, Irish hitmen, cover ups, suspense

TROUBLE IN ROOSTER PARADISE     T.W. Emory Reviewed by Meredith Frazier   
Gunnar Nilson, a private eye with an eye for the ladies, is hired by a high-powered Seattle businessman to discretely investigate the murder of a salesgirl in the 1950s.

EAT CROW AND DIE        Maris Soule    Reviewed by PJ Coldren   
P.J. Benson knows her boyfriend (Sheriff’s Detective) Wade Kingsley would never blow up his boat while his son was aboard, so who did blow the boat up, killing Wade’s ex-wife and her new husband?

A PITYING OF DOVES    Steve Burrows    Reviewed by Caryn St Clair   
A researcher working with Turtledoves is found murdered and two of the birds are missing. Not only were expensive items left behind, but even odder, a Mexican diplomat was also found dead at the crime scene.

SCENTS AND SENSIBILITY Spencer Quinn    Reviewed by Cathy Downs   
While helping their elderly neighbors track down an errant son, Chet and Bernie, the dog and man PI team, find the body of a woman who has been working to curb a ring of saguaro thieves.

DEAD RAPUNZEL    Victoria Houston    Reviewed by PJ Coldren   
Police Chief Lewellyn Ferris calls on her fishing buddy and former dentist "Doc" Osborne to identify a victim, and then track down her killer.

AFTER THE STORM     Linda Castillo       Reviewed by Diana Borse   
Painters Mill Police Chief Kate Burkholder is a first responder in the aftermath of a tornado which wreaks heavy damage to persons and property of both the Amish and Englisher communities and uncovers an old crime.

A GOOD KILLING    Allison Leotta     Reviewed by Phyllis Onstad       
Federal prosecutor Anna Curtis returns to her home town in Michigan to defend her sister who is accused of killing the town's revered football coach. In the process, she uncovers a wide web of corruption and abuse of power

HALF THE WORLD AWAY    Cath Stainclifffe    Reviewed by Jim Napier   
An intelligent and sensible young woman embarks on a journey through Asia, and then mysteriously disappears, leaving her parents to travel to unfamiliar lands in search of their daughter’s fate.

SCHEDULED TO DIE        Alan Cupp     Reviewed by Sharon Mensing   
Dana Carrington is given a year to live her life to her fullest by a serial killer who promises to kill her at the end of the year.

NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE  Adam Nevill    Reviewed by Meredith Frazier   
Trying to make her own way in the world after her father dies and her insane stepmother throws her out of her home, Stephanie finds the cheap rooming house she ends up in is haunted both by ghosts and something darker.

Yvonne Klein
Editor: ymk@reviewingtheevidence.com