by Sulari Gentill ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 12, 2019
A charmingly complex hero (Gentlemen Formerly Dressed, 2018, etc.) whose adventures continue to highlight many worldly...
A murder in the past comes back to haunt a socially prominent Australian family.
Rowland Sinclair, an artist with leftist friends and a free-wheeling lifestyle, is the bane of his conservative brother Wilfred’s existence in the 1930s. During extensive renovations to the garden at Wilfred’s country estate, a lake is drained, revealing the gun that killed their father 13 years before. Even as the police, encouraged by an anonymous tip, suspect Rowly, Lucy Bennett, encouraged by Wilfred’s wife, decides that she’s in love with him. He's not interested, so he alienates her father by showing off his nude paintings, mostly of his housemate, Edna Higgins, an independent woman he loves but has little hope of persuading to marry him. Lucy soon finds another Sinclair to love: Rowly’s cousin Arthur, a stuffy solicitor who, cut out of his father’s will, depends on Wilfred’s good graces for his cushy lifestyle. Although he was only 15 when his father died, Rowly hated his father, who often had him badly beaten by his farm manager, Charles Hayden. His housemates all thought his father died of natural causes; the family shipped Rowly off to England right after the funeral; and he never talked about his unhappy youth. Now Wilfred asks Rowly to return to the family home to discuss problems old and new. If it weren’t for the return of Hayden, who insists that Wilfred had a row with his father because he threatened to cut him out of his will, the police might have given up. When Hayden is found beaten to death, Rowly is arrested, and Wilfred pulls every string to get him released until his case is heard. Rowly and his friends must find the real killer in order to rescue the family from scandal and himself from a prison sentence.
A charmingly complex hero (Gentlemen Formerly Dressed, 2018, etc.) whose adventures continue to highlight many worldly problems between the great wars.Pub Date: Feb. 12, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4642-0697-9
Page Count: 372
Publisher: Poisoned Pen
Review Posted Online: Oct. 27, 2018
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 15, 2018
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by David Baldacci ‧ RELEASE DATE: Dec. 2, 1997
Irritatingly trite woman-in-periler from lawyer-turned-novelist Baldacci. Moving away from the White House and the white-shoe Washington law firms of his previous bestsellers (Absolute Power, 1996; Total Control, 1997), Baldacci comes up with LuAnn Tyler, a spunky, impossibly beautiful, white-trash truck stop waitress with a no-good husband and a terminally cute infant daughter in tow. Some months after the birth of Lisa, LuAnn gets a phone call summoning her to a make-shift office in an unrented storefront of the local shopping mall. There, she gets a Faustian offer from a Mr. Jackson, a monomaniacal, cross-dressing manipulator who apparently knows the winning numbers in the national lottery before the numbers are drawn. It seems that LuAnn fits the media profile of what a lottery winner should be—poor, undereducated but proud—and if she's willing to buy the right ticket at the right time and transfer most of her winnings to Jackson, she'll be able to retire in luxury. Jackson fails to inform her, however, that if she refuses his offer, he'll have her killed. Before that can happen, as luck would have it, LuAnn barely escapes death when one of husband Duane's drug deals goes bad. She hops on a first-class Amtrak sleeper to Manhattan with a hired executioner in pursuit. But executioner Charlie, one of Jackson's paid handlers, can't help but hear wedding bells when he sees LuAnn cooing with her daughter. Alas, a winning $100- million lottery drawing complicates things. Jackson spirits LuAnn and Lisa away to Sweden, with Charlie in pursuit. Never fear. Not only will LuAnn escape a series of increasingly violent predicaments, but she'll also outwit Jackson, pay an enormous tax bill to the IRS, and have enough left over to honeymoon in Switzerland. Too preposterous to work as feminine wish-fulfillment, too formulaic to be suspenseful. (Book-of-the-Month Club main selection)
Pub Date: Dec. 2, 1997
ISBN: 0-446-52259-7
Page Count: 528
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 15, 1997
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by C.J. Box ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 28, 2015
A suspenseful, professional-grade north country procedural whose heroine, a deft mix of compassion and attitude, would be...
Box takes another break from his highly successful Joe Pickett series (Stone Cold, 2014, etc.) for a stand-alone about a police detective, a developmentally delayed boy, and a package everyone in North Dakota wants to grab.
Cassandra Dewell can’t leave Montana’s Lewis and Clark County fast enough for her new job as chief investigator for Jon Kirkbride, sheriff of Bakken County. She leaves behind no memories worth keeping: her husband is dead, her boss has made no bones about disliking her, and she’s looking forward to new responsibilities and the higher salary underwritten by North Dakota’s sudden oil boom. But Bakken County has its own issues. For one thing, it’s cold—a whole lot colder than the coldest weather Cassie’s ever imagined. For another, the job she turns out to have been hired for—leading an investigation her new boss doesn’t feel he can entrust to his own force—makes her queasy. The biggest problem, though, is one she doesn’t know about until it slaps her in the face. A fatal car accident that was anything but accidental has jarred loose a stash of methamphetamines and cash that’s become the center of a battle between the Sons of Freedom, Bakken County’s traditional drug sellers, and MS-13, the Salvadorian upstarts who are muscling in on their territory. It’s a setup that leaves scant room for law enforcement officers or for Kyle Westergaard, the 12-year-old paperboy damaged since birth by fetal alcohol syndrome, who’s walked away from the wreck with a prize all too many people would kill for.
A suspenseful, professional-grade north country procedural whose heroine, a deft mix of compassion and attitude, would be welcome to return and tie up the gaping loose end Box leaves. The unrelenting cold makes this the perfect beach read.Pub Date: July 28, 2015
ISBN: 978-0-312-58321-7
Page Count: 272
Publisher: Minotaur
Review Posted Online: April 21, 2015
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 15, 2015
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