Kroll’s hard-boiled prose feels satisfyingly retro. The final volume in his trilogy wraps up loose ends without pulling...
A Halifax ex-cop enters the twisted world of the dark web in search of a missing journalist and his own estranged daughter.
T.J. Peterson (The Hell of It All, 2017, etc.) and his girlfriend, Patty, have hit a bad patch. Even worse, he has minimal contact with his runaway daughter, Katy, just occasional taunting photos of the ratholes she calls temporary homes. Their estrangement has been a major factor contributing to his recent breakdown; he’s also been booted from the police force. But his detective instincts come alive again when street preacher Ziggy sells him the cellphone of journalist Britney Comer, who’d recently called Peterson with news of Katy. As teenagers, Britney and Katy had lived on the edge: sex and drugs and staying out all night. Britney cleaned up her act; Katy, not so much. Then Jeremy Mains, Britney’s live-in boyfriend, reports that she hasn’t been home in two days. Could Katy have been the focus of a story Britney was working on about prostitutes? The search for Britney becomes inextricably entangled with Peterson’s urgent quest to find and save his daughter. Flashbacks fill in details of his sad childhood, his time on the force, and his wife’s death in a car accident. With help from former colleague Detective Grace “Bernie” Bernard, Peterson begins tracking down leads. His many interviews become a painful reminder of all his past mistakes, goading him to make amends. The trail leads through a plethora of sleazy characters involved in online porn and “gore sites.”
Kroll’s hard-boiled prose feels satisfyingly retro. The final volume in his trilogy wraps up loose ends without pulling punches.Pub Date: Oct. 15, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-77041-489-1
Page Count: 296
Publisher: ECW Press
Review Posted Online: July 27, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 2019
An anodyne visit with Tricia and her friends and enemies hung on a thin mystery.
Too much free time leads a New Hampshire bookseller into yet another case of murder.
Now that Tricia Miles has Pixie Poe and Mr. Everett practically running her bookstore, Haven’t Got a Clue, she finds herself at loose ends. Her wealthy sister, Angelica, who in the guise of Nigela Ricita has invested heavily in making Stoneham a bookish tourist attraction, is entering the amateur competition for the Great Booktown Bake-Off. So Tricia, who’s recently taken up baking as a hobby, decides to join her and spends a lot of time looking for the perfect cupcake recipe. A visit to another bookstore leaves Tricia witnessing a nasty argument between owner Joyce Widman and next-door neighbor Vera Olson over the trimming of tree branches that hang over Joyce’s yard—also overheard by new town police officer Cindy Pearson. After Tricia accepts Joyce’s offer of some produce from her garden, they find Vera skewered by a pitchfork, and when Police Chief Grant Baker arrives, Joyce is his obvious suspect. Ever since Tricia moved to Stoneham, the homicide rate has skyrocketed (Poisoned Pages, 2018, etc.), and her history with Baker is fraught. She’s also become suspicious about the activities at Pets-A-Plenty, the animal shelter where Vera was a dedicated volunteer. Tricia’s offered her expertise to the board, but president Toby Kingston has been less than welcoming. With nothing but baking on her calendar, Tricia has plenty of time to investigate both the murder and her vague suspicions about the shelter. Plenty of small-town friendships and rivalries emerge in her quest for the truth.
An anodyne visit with Tricia and her friends and enemies hung on a thin mystery.Pub Date: Aug. 13, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-9848-0272-9
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Berkley
Review Posted Online: May 26, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 2019
A murder is committed in a stalled transcontinental train in the Balkans, and every passenger has a watertight alibi. But Hercule Poirot finds a way.
**Note: This classic Agatha Christie mystery was originally published in England as Murder on the Orient Express, but in the United States as Murder in the Calais Coach. Kirkus reviewed the book in 1934 under the original US title, but we changed the title in our database to the now recognizable title Murder on the Orient Express. This is the only name now known for the book. The reason the US publisher, Dodd Mead, did not use the UK title in 1934 was to avoid confusion with the 1932 Graham Greene novel, Orient Express.
Pub Date: Feb. 28, 1934
ISBN: 978-0062073495
Page Count: -
Publisher: Dodd, Mead
Review Posted Online: Sept. 20, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1934
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