Just as many nice descriptions of the ship as in Murder on the Lusitania (1999), but also just as many silly people airing...
The Mauretania has barely set sail from Liverpool to America on a cool November evening in 1907 when a first-class passenger is tipping a silver salt cellar and a silver pepper pot into his pocket, a couple travelling second-class lose a silver snuffbox and a purse, and a pair of Welshmen in steerage are making plans to lift a few of the gold bullion bars stored in the hold, then claim a reward for “finding” them. In this variation of the locked-room mystery (the locked Liner mystery?), George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield, the Cunard’s security team who are traveling incognito as shipboard voyagers, have five days until the ship docks to sort through the skullduggery. Unfortunately, more bad news develops: A passenger is missing; the ship’s mascot, Bobo the cat, cannot be found; intimidating notes are being thrust under Genevieve’s stateroom door; a “husband” is procuring for his luscious wife; stolen swag has been secreted in an unsuspecting widow’s hatbox; and tools and a trolley have been swiped from the kitchens. Furthermore, possible suspects keep getting up from the dinner tables and wandering the hallways, stopping only long enough to stare at Genevieve longingly or grope her knee. Still, the sleuthing duo manage to set matters right before the Mauretania’s inaugural sailing ends, and even have time left over for a quick cuddle themselves.
Just as many nice descriptions of the ship as in Murder on the Lusitania (1999), but also just as many silly people airing their snobberies and flaunting their jewelry.Pub Date: Dec. 1, 2000
ISBN: 0-312-24116-X
Page Count: 256
Publisher: Minotaur
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 2000
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Inside this bloated novel is a lean thriller starring a strong and damaged protagonist who's as compelling as Lisbeth...
In Brennan’s (Nothing To Hide, 2019, etc.) new series launch, a hard-edged female LAPD undercover cop and an ambitious FBI special agent race to catch a serial killer before he strikes again.
On paid administrative leave since an incident with a suspect went wrong, a restless Detective Kara Quinn is on an early morning run in her hometown of Liberty Lake, Washington, when she discovers the flayed corpse of a young nurse. In D.C., FBI Special Agent in Charge Mathias Costa is staffing the new Mobile Response Team, designed to cover rural areas underserved by law enforcement, when his boss assigns Matt and analyst Ryder Kim to Liberty Lake. The notorious Triple Killer, who murders three random victims, three days apart, every three years, has returned. With only six days to identify and catch the culprit, and only three days until he kills again, the team is “on a very tight clock.” What should be on-the-edge-of-your-seat suspense turns into a slog marred by pedestrian prose (“she heard nothing except birds chirping…”), a convoluted plot slowed down by a focus on dull bureaucratic infighting, and flat character development. The sole exception is the vividly drawn Kara. Smart, angry, defensive, complicated, she fascinates both the reader and Matt ("Kara Quinn was different—and he couldn’t put his finger on why”).
Inside this bloated novel is a lean thriller starring a strong and damaged protagonist who's as compelling as Lisbeth Salander.Pub Date: Feb. 4, 2020
ISBN: 978-0-7783-0944-4
Page Count: 464
Publisher: Harlequin MIRA
Review Posted Online: Nov. 24, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 15, 2019
Middling for a matchless series (Unseen, 2013, etc.) in which, just as in grand opera, nothing ordinary ever happens.
After two intense stand-alones (Pretty Girls, 2015, etc.), Slaughter brings back the regulars whose personal problems are just as dark, urgent, and potentially violent as those of the criminals they investigate.
In the two weeks since medical examiner Dr. Sara Linton joined her lover, agent Will Trent, on the payroll of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, everything’s been fine, except of course for Will’s uneasy sense that Angie Polaski, the long-estranged wife he just can’t get around to divorcing, will never let him alone. How right he is. A Glock found near the scene of a grisly murder is quickly traced to Angie. Now Amanda Wagner, the GBI deputy director who mercilessly rides Will and his partner, Faith Mitchell, wants to know what Angie had to do with the death of Dale Harding, a thoroughly miserable human being who was a detective with the Atlanta PD. The case is already a minefield: the murder scene, drenched in blood that isn’t Harding’s, is the construction site of the All Star, a nightclub owned by basketball star Marcus Rippy, who’s well-known to Will as the man who raped Keisha Miscavage and, thanks to his feral manager, Kip Kilpatrick, and an army of lawyers, walked away two weeks ago without so much as a summons. The forensic evidence indicates that at least one other person was seriously wounded at the murder scene before vanishing. Forget about indicting Rippy for the crime; Will would be lucky to interview him. Just when it seems that Will’s ties to the case couldn’t become more fraught, Slaughter interrupts the action for a hundred-page flashback to the week before the killing. Things get clearer but no less tense.
Middling for a matchless series (Unseen, 2013, etc.) in which, just as in grand opera, nothing ordinary ever happens.Pub Date: Sept. 20, 2016
ISBN: 978-0-06-243021-2
Page Count: 416
Publisher: Morrow/HarperCollins
Review Posted Online: July 2, 2016
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 15, 2016
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
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