Karin Slaughter is always good, but in the mesmerizing False Witness (William Morrow), she’s downright great. At its heart, this is a legal thriller extraordinaire that follows lawyer Leigh Collier barely managing to balance her firm’s politics and time demands with being the mother of a sixteen-year-old daughter. Driving the…
Jon LandJuly 26, 2021
Given that I’ve written around, oh, 50 of them, I kind of know my way around the world of mysteries and thrillers. Enough, anyway, to say that How to Write a Mystery (Scribner), a handbook on the craft put out by the Mystery Writers of America is one of the…
Jon LandApril 27, 2021
amahttps://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Gambling-Man.jpg David Baldacci is no stranger to hitting literary home runs, but his second book to feature World War II-veteran-turned-avenging-angel Aloysius Archer, A Gambling Man, (Grand Central) is a flat-out grand slam. His second adventure finds Archer heading west to Los Angeles — Hollywood, more specifically — in the (eventual)…
Jon LandApril 23, 2021
Harlan Coben rolls the dice with Win (Grand Central) and comes out a big, well, winner. The Win of the title, of course, is Windsor Horne Lockwood III, a central figure in Coben’s terrific Myron Bolitar series, who we know as a fabulously wealthy fixer not afraid to get his…
Jon LandMarch 24, 2021
David Baldacci is at his absolute best in the dazzling Daylight (Grand Central), the latest in his FBI special agent Atlee Pine series. Only this time, she’s joined by another of Baldacci’s sterling creations in the form of military investigator John Puller. In lesser hands, such a setup would have…
Jon LandNovember 30, 2020
