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★★★☆☆ Bestselling author Sophie Hannah attempts to capture Agatha Christie’s masterful storytelling in Closed Casket, but Christie was an author who cannot be replicated. Closed Casket takes place at Lady Athelinda Playford’s estate in Clonakilty, County...
★★★★☆ Mary Higgins Clark has been writing thrilling mysteries for decades. The Sleeping Beauty Killer, the fourth book about TV producer Laurie Moran, is her third collaboration with Alafair Burke. The Sleeping Beauty Killer finds...
★★★★★ The era of the Penny Dreadful in European literary history is one of vicious source material: many blood-curdling pamphlets of “true” crime were adulterated from the headlines, influenced by grizzly stories of psychopaths...
★★★★☆ In A Banquet of Consequences, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, of Scotland Yard, is at somewhat of a loss. Her best friend and his daughter have moved away from London to Pakistan. At work,...
★★☆☆☆ A specter is haunting America – the specter of 9/11. This event, still being unpacked 15 years later, especially haunts Kennedy, an airport security expert who trains TSA agents. Kennedy flies constantly, motivated...
★★★★★ Ron Rash is a premier American writer of contemporary fiction. Do not be deceived by the setting of his work and limit him to being just a Southern, or more particularly, just an...
★★★★★ It is a slippery task to evaluate the quality of a work that is so deeply embedded in its own genre. B-movies, guilty pleasures, perfect pop songs, that “so-bad-it’s-good” accolade that countless genre...
★★★★☆ The strange present-day timeline of Samantha Hunt’s ghostly novel Mr. Splitfoot feels almost like a dystopian fantasy from a bygone era, the inconceivable future of smartphones and disconnection into which we all actually...
★★★★☆ In Toyne’s The Searcher, mysterious stranger walks toward town. He has no memory of anything but the road. Wearing a bespoke suit, he is barefooted as he walks then runs away from the...
