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Eliza Benedict has constructed a new, peaceful life for herself after being the victim of an horrific abduction and rape at the age of 15. Now, twenty some years after the conviction and death sentence given to her abductor for the murder of another young girl, her tormentor, Walter, contacts her from prison just weeks before his execution date to ask her to visit him in exchange for information about other girls he has killed. Despite suspecting that this is a last-ditch effort on the killer’s part for a stay of execution, Eliza considers his request and the possibly shattering consequences to her husband and two children whom she’s tried so hard to protect.
A first rate psychological drama by a crime fiction queen, I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman is a first-class read.
Irish author Tana French brings us another atmospheric mystery set in Dublin.
Faithful place is a lower middle class street where the worst a man can do is talk to the police. So when one of their own, Frank Mackey, is left standing in the middle of the street waiting for his young love Rosie to meet him so that they can run away to London together, no one is surprised when Frank just takes off on his own.
What does surprise them is that Frank eventually becomes a detective and returns to his family and his old street after a twenty-odd year absence when Rosie’s suitcase is discovered in an abandoned house on Faithful Place, and it doesn’t look like Rosie stood Frank up at all.
Dark and desperate with all the conflicting and volatile emotions a wildly dysfunctional family brings out, Faithful Place is sure to be another winner for Tana French’s growing legion of fans.
I read this mystery from a small, literary publisher, Unbridled, in part because I’ve really liked some of their offerings and in part because, after the huge Stieg Larsson craze, more and more readers are looking for quality foreign mysteries.
I’m sorry to report that I don’t think this one is going to be one of my recommendations.
An American journalist and his photographer finish their assignment in Taiwan and take a sightseeing jaunt to the famous Taroko Gorge. They arrive as a busload of Japanese middle schoolers on a fieldtrip get there and observe the kids up to the usual middle school hijinks. Sadly, something goes awry and three young girls go missing.
After sending most of the class back to their hotel, the journalists, a few students, their teacher and some park officials stay to await the police.
Also sadly, I wasn’t very involved with any of the characters, and the setting, while unusual, should have played a bigger role.
There were some interesting observations about cultural differences and similarities, but it just wasn’t enough to keep me enthused.
If you are particularly interested in mysteries set in Asia, I think you’d find this one on par with many others I’ve read, but the next great foreign mystery it isn’t.
Gabriel Allon returns to once again face Russian oligarch Ivan Kharkov.
In Moscow Rules, Gabriel was rescued by and in turn rescued Grigori Bulganov, who defected to Britain. The Defector begins with Grigori’s disappearance, which pulls Gabriel away from the bucolic farm where he and his bride were living.
In typical Silva form, the bad guys are ruthless, the Israeli Mossed are brave and clever and relentless, and Gabriel, after overcoming capture, torture and seemingly insurmountable odds, wins the day.
If that seems glib, let me remind you that I’ve been a Silva fan from the get-go, and can never wait to get my hands on the next installment.
My only criticism would be the somewhat pathetic character Sarah, and Gabriel’s fatuous reactions to her. (Come on, I know you agree with me…)
The Defector is Silva at his best and was a great read to devour over the course of a few rainy days… two thumbs up!
In Starvation Lake – the first mystery by Wall Street Journal Chicago bureau chief Bryan Gruley – disgraced journalist Gus Carpenter returns to his hometown in Northern Michigan and ends up living with his mother on Starvation Lake outside of Kalkaska and working for its newspaper, The Pilot.
In The Hanging Tree, Gruley reprises all of his familiar characters in a new mystery. Gus’ childhood companion and local wild child Gracie McBride returns to Starvation Lake, where she hasn’t been seen since the end of high school.
Her homecoming is brief, however, as Gracie is found hanging from the Shoe Tree – an apparent suicide.
But Gus and his deputy girlfriend Darlene aren’t buying it, and the ensuing mystery somehow involves the construction of Starvation Lake’s new ice rink, which promises to return the town to its former glory days as a hockey powerhouse.
If you liked Starvation Lake, you will love The Hanging Tree. Gruley has really stepped it up in terms of plotting, dialogue, foreshadowing and overall storytelling. He’s got the endorsement of some of the huge mystery writers of our time and it looks like we may just be poised to have a nationally bestselling series set right here in our own backyard!
Last summer thriller author extraordinaire Karin Slaughter thrilled a packed house at Saturn when she came to read from and sign Undone. Fans of Dr. Sara Linton and Jeffrey Tolliver’s Grant County Police force came from as far as three hours away to meet the tiny woman who could deliver such huge thrills. And these same fans and the new ones she made that night won’t be disappointed as the stories continue in Broken.
Sara is back in Grant County for Thanksgiving, not sure she can make it through the holiday in the town where her husband Jeffrey was murdered. But it isn’t long before her thoughts are diverted by another murder – that of a young college coed by the lakeside. When the prime suspect confesses and then kills himself in jail, Sara comes face to face with Lena Adams, the detective she blames for Jeffrey’s death – and immediately Sara suspects Lena of deception here, too.
Full of Slaughter’s trademark mix of gore, empathy and occasional flashes of humor, Broken is another winner from the queen of crime fiction.
Like The Wrong Mother, which hooked me on Sophie Hannah last year, The Dead Lie Down is a confounding, intricate mystery.
When Ruth Bussey’s boyfriend Aiden confesses to her that he murdered a woman, Ruth just can’t believe it. In fact, she disbelieves him so much that she sets out to prove him wrong. And proving him wrong proves surprisingly easy – the woman he names – Mary Trelease – is alive and well and living in the house where Aiden insists he murdered her.
The book is set in London’s contemporary art scene, and a confounding mix of artists, writers and other talented young people all seem to have a piece of the puzzle.
If you love a mystery that will keep you guessing until the end, you’ll be happy to discover the disturbing novels of Sophie Hannah.
I became a Howard Norman fan when I read The Bird Artist and have enjoyed this author who writes often of Canada's maritime provinces ever since.
In What is Left the Daughter, 17-year-old Wyatt Hiller is orphaned when both of his parents leap to their deaths off of separate bridges in Halifax just hours apart. Young Wyatt ends up moving to live with his aunt, uncle and ravishing adopted cousin Tilda in Middle Economy, Nova Scotia.
Set against wartime Canada, the novel introduces a German student, Hans, who falls for Tilda and will never be accepted by her U-Boat obsessed father.
The novel is written as an ongoing letter twenty-one years later by Wyatt to his beloved daughter, detailing the surreal and the commonplace that made up a small but extraordinary life in Nova Scotia.
This is a novel that will likely haunt me as its characters are normal folks whose normal and extraordinary acts chronicle the arc of love, despair, hope and hopelessness that define everyone. That Norman uses his considerable talent to bring the story to life in a unique place and time makes the reading all the more vivid in the mind's eye.
I’ve been following Michael Koryta’s thrillers since his remarkable debut at age 21. His P.I. novels and thrillers seemed like the work of a much more seasoned hand. So I was anxious to get my hands on an advance of his newest endeavor, So Cold the River, and I was expecting a fast-paced, sure-footed read, which I got. What I wasn’t expecting, though, was an entirely new genre for Koryta – an almost Stephen King-like thriller.
Having grown up in Koryta’s home state of Indiana, I am familiar with the astounding West Baden Springs hotel that is a veritable Taj Mahal in South Central Indiana. It was a near-ruin when I was growing up, and somewhere along the line was restored to its former glory among the supposedly healing springs emanating from the largely underground Lost River.
Koryta has taken this real but surreal setting and made it the crux of his novel about a sulfur springs spa that gives birth to a great evil.
I enjoyed every page of So Cold the River, despite it being nothing like I expected. It just goes to show you that, in the hands of a gifted storyteller, any story becomes a great read.
I’d not read Mandel’s first mystery when her publisher called to ask if we’d host her here at the store, so reading this new one was a must before I agreed. And boy am I glad I did!
This is a mystery where secrets from the past are slowly revealed to let the reader understand what’s going on.
It revolves around a young man, Anton Waker, who grew up amidst corruption – his parents, though wealthy and stable, were thieves, and his first job was selling forged passports and social security cards.
But Anton is wishy-washy and weak in the knees. He’s always dreamed of working in an office. But after he finally succeeds, his own misdeeds begin to haunt him.
This was one of those novels that was a joy to read – well constructed with vivid characters and settings – that let me know by the second or third chapter that not only would Saturn be hosting Emily St. John Mandel, but I would be ordering a pile of her first book, Last Night in Montreal, and reading that right away, too!
Meet Emily at 6:30 on Tuesday, July 6th. Her reading and signing will be a free, ticketed event, so come in for your tickets today!
Shoot to Thrill is the mother/daughter team writers’ fifth Monkeewrench mystery set in Minneapolis.
I’ve been a fan since the first novel which introduced the Monkeewrench gang – a group of four misfit computer geniuses whose serial killer video game becomes the prototype for a real killer. The hunt to find the killer turns our gang into willing, if not totally law-abiding, help for local law enforcement.
In Shoot to Thrill, Tracy explores the dark potential of the internet to grant anyone their fifteen minutes of fame as a killer (or killers) first boast about, and then videotape and publish on the web, their evil deeds.
Detectives Margozzi and Rolseth return, along with FBI agent John Smith – a man who starts out as bland as his name and learns from the gang that there’s more to justice than always playing by the rules.
Two thumbs up!
Kris’ newest novel begins with a great-granddaughter listening to her great-grandmother tell her about an invisible string that connects all women.
The story begins with a cell-phone dropped in a toilet at the Tampa airport and the five unlikely strangers who contrive its retrieval.
No sooner is the phone in hand than the airport is shut down for a storm system of nation-wide proportions. The five virtual strangers – all very different from each other – decide on the spur of the moment to ride out the storm in a beachfront hotel suite together.
What ensues is typical Kris Radish – lots of madcap mayhem punctuated by heart to hearts that bond this unlikely quintet forever.
The Good Son is a far cry from the semi-mystic santaria books for which I fell in love with Michael Gruber’s writing, but this tale of shifting loyalties in the war-torn Muslim countries is a superb, intelligent and captivating novel in its own right.
The “son” is Theo Langari – a Pakistani boy turned mujahidin turned US Army recruit and he’s off the reservation plotting to rescue his mother, a famous dissident author and psychotherapist, and her fellow conference attendees at a peace symposium who have been kidnapped and are being held and slowly executed by terrorists.
That Gruber is so informative about the various Muslim sects and teachings allows the reader to explore the various ways that the Middle East has responded historically to their loss of world dominance and helps put the current state of world affairs in a perspective that is highly readable and engaging.
If you enjoy an intelligent thriller (for entirely different reasons than I used to use to recommend him), Michael Gruber is your man. The Good Son knocks it out of the park!
