When I picked up Mark Billingham’s BLOODLINE, I wasn’t sure exactly what to expect. Billingham had long been on my list of authors to try, but proving yet again that there are far more books out there than I’ll be able to read in my lifetime. I love police...
“Arse” is the last piece of Irish I have.(Go ahead…laugh. I’ll wait. That’s just one of thousands of similarly clever lines in PLUGGED.)Eoin Colfer is well known for his Artemis Fowl series of YA books, which, in the estimation of some, are at their core crime...
In DARKNESS, MY OLD FRIEND, Lisa Unger brings us back to The Hollows, the suburban New York town where FRAGILE was set. Many of the characters—including Jones and Maggie Cooper and their son Rick(y)—are also part of this new story, as are some we met only briefly in...
FRAGILE came out last year (before I had this blog to talk about it), and is just now out in paperback. Because Lisa’s new book, DARKNESS, MY OLD FRIEND is set in the same place and picks up many of the characters from FRAGILE, I thought it made sense to write about...
It is rare indeed when one author publishes two exceptional books in one calendar year. This is such a year for Michael Koryta.As if THE CYPRESS HOUSE isn’t enough of a masterpiece (and it is), THE RIDGE, Koryta’s second book this year, is equally enthralling.THE...
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Karin Slaughter’s books. She’s an exceptional storyteller—in addition to being an author who has not let success dampen her appreciation for each of her readers nor her willingness to lend her energy to the most worthy of causes, like...
