In The Second Life of Nick Mason, Steve Hamilton introduces a character who’s a good man in a bad situation. Yes, he may be in prison for a crime he did commit, but who wouldn’t make a deal with the devil to get out from under a 25 year sentence? Even if there’s a price to pay…
Photo of Steve Hamilton ©Franco Vogt
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
In The Assistants, Camille Perri’s protagonist (protagonista?) Tina Fontana learns first hand the lessons of Sir Walter Scott’s quote “Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive”
Photo of Camille Perri ©Ash Barhamand
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
The past is a different country: they do things differently there.* And how. In The Letter Writer, Dan Fesperman’s newest mystery that takes place in New York City, February 1942, there’s no shortage of intrigue—and murder
Photo of Dan Fesperman ©Michael Lionstar
*L.P. Hartley, The Hireling
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
To get the universe of his protagonist, Santa Fe Police Department Detective Denise Aragon, spot on for The Drum Within, Jim Scarantino calls on his skills as a prosecutor, defense attorney and investigative reporter and follows Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules for Good Writing
It’s a winning combination for a wickedly good procedural.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
No one writes crazy quite like T. Jefferson Parker. Not teeth-gnashing, over-the-top-bad-guy-psycho-killer crazy, but crazy on a Biblical, mythical scale, the crazy of obsession and families with conflicts that span generations. And so it is in Crazy Blood, T. Jefferson Parker’s latest, a dark noir tale set in the world of blinding white snow
Photo of T. Jefferson Parker ©T. Jefferson Parker
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
In Barry Eisler’s The God’s Eye View, an out-of-control Director at the National Security Agency is running a program that can see everything and is eliminating anyone who poses a threat—not to the country—but to the program. A work of fiction. Really
Photo of Barry Eisler ©Naomi Brookner
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
Out of the Blues, Trudy Nan Boyce’s debut police procedural, hits all the right notes as her protagonist, Sarah Alt—AKA Salt—reports for duty as Atlanta’s newest homicide detective. It’s music, the blues in particular, that brings a very cold case to life for Salt
Photo of Trudy Nan Boyce ©Viki Hoang Timian
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
Moral ambiguity attracts S. J. Rozan to the Private Eye genre, “It’s about what you do when there are only bad choices.”
S. J. Rozan writes the Lydia Chin and Bill Smith series—the point of view trades off between her two protagonists book to book—that includes Ghost Hero (a Lydia Chin novel) and On the Line (a Bill Smith novel). Her most recent novel is Skin of the Wolf, a genre-bending tale of mystery and vampires, written with Carlos Dews as Sam Cabot.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
In Pacific Burn, Barry Lancet’s third mystery featuring PI Jim Brodie, an assassin seems to be targeting the adult family members of an esteemed Japanese artist who is a good friend of Brodie’s. It’s up to Brodie to find out who is killing off the Nobuki family one by one …and why
Photo of Barry Lancet ©Ben Simmons
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
To all the world, defense attorney Amanda Jaffe’s client—who is charged with murder—looks guilty. Not to mention, he confessed. But in Violent Crimes, Phillip Margolin’s latest legal thriller, nothing is quite what it appears to be
Photo of Phillip Margolin ©Anthony Georgis
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
