Written by Harlan Coben AMATEUR DETECTIVE. Myron Bolitar, Coben’s hero, is a former basketball star derailed from a big career by a crippling knee injury. Now he’s a sports agent, with a sideline in solving mysteries – mysteries often associated with one of his athletes. If you haven’t read them it’s hard to explain the […]
A Kate Burkholder Short Story | Written by Linda Castillo This short tale of 14-year-old Kate Burkholder offers an interesting glimpse of the heroine of Linda Castillo’s mystery series. Kate is now Chief of Police in Painter’s Mills, Ohio, but she grew up Amish. Here we meet the young teenage Kate before she has made […]
Written by Kelley Armstrong HIT WOMAN. As Nadia Stafford, the heroine of this three book series (with an additional novella published in e-book this spring), is an ex-Canadian cop who owns and operates a wilderness lodge. As Dee she is a contract killer for the Thomasetti’s, a small traditional Mafia family from Boston. Dee’s mentor […]
Written by Jacqueline Winspear | HISTORICAL SPY THRILLER. Maisie Dobbs is back in London but not for long. Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the British Secret Service seek her out for a dangerous mission. Leon Donat, a valuable British boffin (that’s scientist and inventor to you) is imprisoned in Dachau. The British government has […]
Written by Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling) (A Cormoran Strike novel) | Mullholland Books | Published October 2015 | 512 pages His face resembles Beethoven – if that composer had been a boxer with a broken nose, hair like a Brillopad, a monkey-like thatch of chest hair, a missing lower leg, and a belly that hangs […]
