FICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"Less byplay among the regulars than usual, mainly since whenever promising domestic and group complications arise, Adler-Olsen lets them die on the vine. But the detection and thrills are authentic."
Inspector Carl Mørck and his raffish colleagues at Copenhagen's Department Q (
The Absent One, 2012, etc.) go up against a truly fiendish kidnapper.
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FICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"Once again, Gaus probes the tension between the self-reliance of the Amish world and the urgencies of the English world with depth and sensitivity."
FICTION
Released: June 1, 2013
"Buckley seasons another charming episode of historical intrigue with several surprises."
FICTION
Released: June 1, 2013
"The sixth in this highly enjoyable series (Keeping Bad Company, 2012, etc.) adds social commentary to a rich broth of historical tidbits and an excellent mystery."
FICTION
Released: June 1, 2013
"Mid-19th-century sexism and racism galore, presented with Hambly's usual verve and historical accuracy."
Benjamin January, free man of color, leaves New Orleans for the iniquities of Washington City.
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2013
"Another solid procedural from Rowson, with a little kick of spy stuff for the adventurous."
DI Andy Horton (
Death Lies Beneath, 2012, etc.) waxes increasingly frustrated when his superiors just can't seem to connect the dots.
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FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"Like Malin's debut (Midwinter Blood, 2012), this second of four seasonal procedurals is evocative, atmospheric, ingenious and overlong."
A Swedish summer is no kinder than winter to Malin Fors, her colleagues in the Linköping police department or the young girls who've become the targets of a murderous stalker.
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FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"Politically savvy, but overstuffed with plots and bios of Greek deities. And Dinah (Bonereapers, 2012, etc.) could do with a verve implant."
FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"Bolton, who specializes in over-the-top psychological mayhem, ratchets up the tension with OCD diagnoses, past furies unresolved and a reworking of the Peter Pan story."
FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"The tale sags as it lumbers toward its foreordained conclusion, but it's all worth it to hear Judge Flinch tell a witness who's taking the Fifth: "You're plenty incriminated already.""
Back from a 10-year sabbatical, ebullient St. Louis attorney Rachel Gold (
Trophy Widow, 2002, etc.) is faced with a Frankenstein civil suit that just won't be settled.
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FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"Carlisle's eighth Bibliophile mystery provides interesting suspects, a historical puzzle and the usual appended recipes."
FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"The third action-packed case for Manny (Death Where the Bad Rocks Live, 2012, etc.) teems with historical interest, even if you're not a re-enactor."
