Lady’s maid Jane Prescott returns in Mariah Fredericks’ Death of a New American. The year is 1912 and the sinking of the Titanic casts a pall over the comings and goings of New York City’s social elite. The Benchleys, Jane’s employers, are worried that the wedding of their daughter Louise will be lost in the… Read more »
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Episode 163: Rachel Howzell Hall
It’s important to remember what the wages of sin are as you read Rachel Howzell Hall’s They All Fall Down…
Episode 162: Glen Erik Hamilton
The thing about Van Shaw, Glen Erik Hamilton’s protagonist in Mercy River, the fourth installment in his series about the former Army Ranger, is that Van is very good at what he does. The issue is, what Van does so well usually involves lock picking, high-velocity projectiles and other assorted strategic mayhem
Episode 161: Jess Montgomery
Jess Montgomery touches on many of the cross-currents buffeting the United States in the mid-1920’s in The Widows, the first novel in a new series featuring Lily Ross, the first woman sheriff in Ohio: women’s voting rights, Prohibition, the struggle to unionize at the mines, organized crime, child labor and educational inequality … Read more »
Episode 160: Charles Todd
In The Black Ascot, the 21st crime fiction novel from the writing team of Charles and Caroline Todd to feature Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, a shell-shocked veteran of World War One, Rutledge is tasked with investigating an eleven-year-old cold case tracking down a man who’s been on the lam since the murder of a… Read more »
Episode 159: James Rollins
The warrior scientists of James Rollins’ Sigma Force are back in Crucible, a cautionary tale of modern witchcraft; in other words, advanced artificial intelligence, religious extremism and—just to make the story really interesting—quantum physics Photo of James Rollins ©James Rollins
Episode 158: Matthew Quirk
In The Night Agent, Matthew Quirk’s new thriller, FBI Agent Peter Sutherland’s job is to sit by the phone in the White House’s Situation Room, hoping it doesn’t ring, but being ready to act if it does. It’s a job that’s boring…until it isn’t Photo of Matthew Quirk ©Mark Finkenstaedt
Episode 157: Val McDermid
DCI Karen Pirie of Police Scotland is back in Val McDermid’s new crime fiction novel, Broken Ground. Karen, head of a cold case unit, has her work cut out for her with her new investigations: the roots of one were planted during World War II when the area of Scotland north of the Highlands was used by… Read more »
Episode 156: Libby Fischer Hellmann
The idea behind High Crimes, Libby Fischer Hellmann’s new crime fiction novel—the fifth in her Georgia Davis series—percolated for a year after the current president was elected. “A year of rage is enough,” said Libby. Time for a new book
Episode 155: H.B. Lyle
Wiggins is back in The Red Ribbon, H.B. Lyle’s second installment of the continuing story of Sherlock Holmes’ Irregular-in-Chief’s career in Britain’s MI-5
