Lieberman’s tenth gives good weight, right down to a nicely inconclusive ending that makes more tightly woven conclusions...
The results of Chicago’s latest crime spree, in the words of Det. Abe Lieberman, are “four dead Turks and one tired Jew.”
A late-night call brings Chicago’s most eccentric cop (Terror Town, 2006, etc.) to the body of Dr. Lemi Oraz Sahin, who’s been repeatedly stabbed. Why was a respected oncologist walking the streets at 3 a.m.? The only answers come from Erhan Turkalu, owner of the nearby Anatolia Restaurant, and soon he and his wife have been stabbed to death as well. Though Abe’s customary partner, Det. Bill Hanrahan, can’t join the festivities because he’s awaiting the imminent arrival of his baby, it turns out that he’s well-positioned at Woodrow Wilson Hospital, where he’s right on hand to protect Jonas Lindqvist, a manic pastry chef who’s been marked for death by both Robert E. Lee Chang, who’s already shot him, mistakenly thinking him a mugger, and the actual muggers, a husband-and-wife pair of boxers. The continued Turkish deaths have their roots in a possibly forged account of a much more sweeping carnage, the alleged genocide of Armenians by Turks, that isn’t quite as compelling as it means to be. But the pastry chef-boxers plot is done to a turn, and the domestic trimmings are all you’d expect of the most compassionate police procedurals in the business.
Lieberman’s tenth gives good weight, right down to a nicely inconclusive ending that makes more tightly woven conclusions seem amateurish.Pub Date: Aug. 1, 2007
ISBN: 978-0-765-31602-8
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Forge
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 2007
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW
One of her best. Poirot, again on vacation, falls foul of a murder on board a Nile river steamer, followed by two successive murders, obviously connected. A sophisticated group, an ingenious plot, clever deduction, swift-paced narrative. A little romance on the side lends glamour. First rate entertainment.
Pub Date: Feb. 8, 1938
ISBN: 0062073559
Page Count: 354
Publisher: Dodd, Mead
Review Posted Online: Sept. 20, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1938
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
SEEN & HEARD
Hill’s debut is a chilling psychological thriller with an unusual heroine and a page-turning storyline.
A woman who uses her research skills to track down missing people finds herself over her head in a dangerous case.
Hester Thursby has taken a leave from her library job at Harvard to help her boyfriend, Morgan, care for Kate, the little daughter of Daphne, his twin sister and Hester’s best friend. When she gets a call from Lila Blaine of New Hampshire, who wants her to find Sam, the brother who’s been missing for 12 years, she’s attracted by the promise of mental stimulation and extra money. Lila gives Hester a stack of postcards from all over the United States, each composed of photos her brother presumably took himself and a single sentence. Sam ran away with Gabe DiPursio, a 14-year-old foster child who was staying with Lila and him at the time. Lila admits the reason she wants to find Sam is because she’s selling a valuable piece of lake property. After talking to Gabe’s former foster mother and the social worker he had at the time, Hester, using the most recent postcards as clues, discovers that Sam and Gabe are living in Boston, where Sam’s posing as Aaron Gewirtzman, a young college graduate who was killed in an accident. She doesn’t know that the pair have left a trail of disaster in their wake: Sam has used his charm and good looks to hook up with wealthy women while Gabe uses his computer skills to raise money to tide them over between marks. Sam’s currently preoccupied by the wealthy socialite he’s dating, but Gabe, who meets Hester when she scopes them out by pretending to be looking for an apartment to rent, becomes totally fixated on her. Real danger threatens Hester when she learns too much about their past and present.
Hill’s debut is a chilling psychological thriller with an unusual heroine and a page-turning storyline.Pub Date: Aug. 28, 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4967-1590-6
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Kensington
Review Posted Online: May 28, 2018
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 2018
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