A rousing paranormal adventure that explores the vast class differences shaping the heroine's romance, with real historical...
An Irish maid–turned–Pinkerton agent never lets being out of her depth stop her.
Rose Gallagher and her former employer and true love, wealthy Englishman Thomas Wiltshire, are working for Pinkerton’s special branch. Rose is in training, learning to shoot, ride, and defend herself, when they’re called back to New York, where Rose has been helping to find paranormal entities. Rose’s encounter with a ghost (Murder on Millionaires’ Row, 2018) left her with the ability to sense shades, and she’s learned that some people, including Wiltshire and his friend Jonathan Burrows, have varied special powers called "lucks." Sgt. Chapman, one of the few honest police officers in 1886 New York, tells Rose about the deaths of six delegates to the Republican Convention from unknown causes that the chief of detectives, who’s in thrall to Tammany Hall, is passing off as a rare form of typhoid. The case is far above Chapman’s pay grade but perfect for the Pinkertons. Since Burrows’ luck is the ability to tell where an object has been by touching it, Rose sends him to the morgue in hopes that he can sniff out a clue. The six delegates were all backing mayoral candidate Theodore Roosevelt. Is TR now in danger himself? Although the case has been hushed up, a coroner on the Pinkerton payroll thinks the cause of death is cardiac failure, suggesting a shade whose very touch can cause death. Rose and Wiltshire continue to hunt for the killer as she gingerly mingles with ultrasnobbish New York socialites and meets brilliant inventor Nikola Tesla, whose ideas lead them to seek not a shade but a man whose luck is the ability to kill with a touch.
A rousing paranormal adventure that explores the vast class differences shaping the heroine's romance, with real historical personages adding a fillip.Pub Date: Sept. 17, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-250-18067-4
Page Count: 400
Publisher: Minotaur
Review Posted Online: June 30, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 15, 2019
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BOOK REVIEW
Proficient but eminently predictable. Amid all the time shifts and embedded backstories, the most surprising feature is how...
A convicted killer’s list of five people he wants dead runs the gamut from the wife he’s already had murdered to franchise heroine Ali Reynolds.
Back in the day, women came from all over to consult Santa Clarita fertility specialist Dr. Edward Gilchrist. Many of them left his care happily pregnant, never dreaming that the father of the babies they carried was none other than the physician himself, who donated his own sperm rather than that of the handsome, athletic, disease-free men pictured in his scrapbook. When Alexandra Munsey’s son, Evan, is laid low by the kidney disease he’s inherited from his biological father and she returns to Gilchrist in search of the donor’s medical records, the roof begins to fall in on him. By the time it’s done falling, he’s serving a life sentence in Folsom Prison for commissioning the death of his wife, Dawn, the former nurse and sometime egg donor who’d turned on him. With nothing left to lose, Gilchrist tattoos himself with the initials of five people he blames for his fall: Dawn; Leo Manuel Aurelio, the hit man he’d hired to dispose of her; Kaitlyn Todd, the nurse/receptionist who took Dawn’s place; Alex Munsey, whose search for records upset his apple cart; and Ali Reynolds, the TV reporter who’d helped put Alex in touch with the dozen other women who formed the Progeny Project because their children looked just like hers. No matter that Ali’s been out of both California and the news business for years; Gilchrist and his enablers know that revenge can’t possibly be served too cold. Wonder how far down that list they’ll get before Ali, aided once more by Frigg, the methodical but loose-cannon AI first introduced in Duel to the Death (2018), turns on them?
Proficient but eminently predictable. Amid all the time shifts and embedded backstories, the most surprising feature is how little the boundary-challenged AI, who gets into the case more or less inadvertently, differs from your standard human sidekick with issues.Pub Date: April 2, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5011-5101-9
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster
Review Posted Online: Feb. 18, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 2019
More of a western than a mystery, like most of Joe’s adventures, and all the better for the open physical clashes that...
Wyoming Game and Fish Warden Joe Pickett (Free Fire, 2007, etc.), once again at the governor’s behest, stalks the wraithlike figure who’s targeting elk hunters for death.
Frank Urman was taken down by a single rifle shot, field-dressed, beheaded and hung upside-down to bleed out. (You won’t believe where his head eventually turns up.) The poker chip found near his body confirms that he’s the third victim of the Wolverine, a killer whose animus against hunters is evidently being whipped up by anti-hunting activist Klamath Moore. The potential effects on the state’s hunting revenues are so calamitous that Governor Spencer Rulon pulls out all the stops, and Pickett is forced to work directly with Wyoming Game and Fish Director Randy Pope, the boss who fired him from his regular job in Saddlestring District. Three more victims will die in rapid succession before Joe is given a more congenial colleague: Nate Romanowski, the outlaw falconer who pledged to protect Joe’s family before he was taken into federal custody. As usual in this acclaimed series, the mystery is slight and its solution eminently guessable long before it’s confirmed by testimony from an unlikely source. But the people and scenes and enduring conflicts that lead up to that solution will stick with you for a long time.
More of a western than a mystery, like most of Joe’s adventures, and all the better for the open physical clashes that periodically release the tension between the scheming adversaries.Pub Date: May 20, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-399-15488-1
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Putnam
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 15, 2008
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