Sunday, September 20, 2015

RTE Update

The September 19, 2015  issue of RTE is out and includes fifteen new reviews as well as a new interview:

http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com

Plus

Lisa Brackmann in the 'Sixty seconds with . . .' interview hot seat:

http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com/interviews.html?id=209

Reviews this week:

MAKE ME    Lee Child    Reviewed by Anne Corey       
Only trying to find the origin of the name of a town called Mother's Rest, Jack Reacher steps off a train and becomes involved in a missing pers case that swiftly pulls him into a puzzling and deadly - and eventually horrific - criminal enterprise.

THOSE WE LEFT BEHIND    Stuart Neville    Reviewed by Yvonne Klein   
Two young brothers have been released from juvenile prison after seven years. But was the right one convicted of murder in the first place and can both now safely be permitted to enter civil society?

DANCE OF THE BONES    J.A. Jance    Reviewed by Cathy Downs   
Brandon Walker works with an incarcerated man who seems to be innocent of the murder which put him behind bars; meanwhile, a bloodthirsty murderer begins killing again after a respite of many years

THE GLASS KINGDOM    Chris Flynn    Reviewed by Karen Chisholm   
Carnival life, drug dealing, meth cooking in rural Australia

EVERGREEN FALLS    Kimberley Freeman    Reviewed by Meredith Frazier
Alternating between 1926 and 2014, Kimberley Freeman tells of illicit romance, opium addiction, and family secrets that stretch across the decades and affect those in the present as much as those who experienced the original events.

THE INSIDER THREAT    Brad Taylor    Reviewed by Christine Zibas   
Can Pike Logan and his team stop ISIS's plans to use American volunteers to carry out their latest terrorist attack, this time targeting the Pope?

DARK WATERS    Chris Goff    Reviewed by Christine Zibas       
When a member of the US Diplomatic Security Service is gunned down on the streets of Tel Aviv, just-on-the-job Agent Raisa Jordan is left to figure out what's going on, even while protecting a US judge and his daughter.

RUN YOU DOWN (Audio)     Julia Dahl    Reviewed by Karla Jay       
Reporter Rebekah Roberts is trying to locate her runaway mother, Aviva Kagan, and, in the process investigates the murder of a woman in New York's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community that may involve her uncle.

THE DUNGEON HOUSE    Martin Edwards Reviewed by Sharon Mensing
Hannah finds herself investigating two current missing person's cases and a historical murder, all connected to the Dungeon House

IDYLL THREATS    Stephanie Gayle     Reviewed by Phyllis Onstad   
Idyll's police chief Thomas Lynch juggles the difficulties of a murder investigation with the need to protect the secret of his sexual orientation.

A GRATEFUL NATION    Ivan Weinberg     Reviewed by Lourdes Venard        
A young public defender is asked to represent a psychiatrist in Hawaii, but far from paradise he find himself in a secluded jungle, surrounded by veterans suffering from PTSD and someone trying to cover up a medical experiment gone wrong.

THE GATES OF EVANGELINE    Hester Young    Reviewed by Diana Borse   
Magazine editor Charlotte Cates leaves New York to tackle a Louisiana plantation family's story after the tragic death of her own four year old son.  She becomes haunted by dreams of dead children asking her for help, mired in the hidden past of the DeVeau family, involved in a romance with the gardener, and threatened at every turn by unknown persons who would kill to keep their secrets.

BORROWED CRIME    Laurie Cass    Reviewed by PJ Coldren       
When a volunteer is killed while working on the Bookmobile, Minnie Hamilton must find the killer or lose her pet library project.

NEIGHING WITH FIRE  Kathryn O’Sullivan   Reviewed by Caryn St Clair   
Developers are butting heads over valuable land and tour operators are butting heads with environmentalists on North Carolina’s Outer Banks

NO VIRGIN ISLAND    C. Michele Dorsey     Reviewed by Sharon Mensing   
New Virgin Island resident Sabrina Salter must find the real murder of one of her villa guests before the police decide she is the villain.

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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