“There’s no rehabilitation in prison. You just become more of whatever landed you in there.” “That so? Then what did you become more of in there?” “A hunter.” Miami, 2016. Cuban-American Ignacio Guerra, 23, is home after three years in jail for assaulting a police informant who set him up…
Neil NyrenMay 31, 2024
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Searcher comes a spellbinding new novel set in the Irish countryside. The Hunter by Tana French picks up two years after The Searcher — though it can stand alone — and takes readers on a twisting ride that will stick with…
BookTribMarch 4, 2024
Truth to tell — I was about to embark on my first cozy mystery. You know, that subgenre of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated lightly, and the crime occurs in a small, intimate community. The detectives are almost always amateurs and are frequently women.…
Jim AlkonMay 19, 2020
If you come to The Heartless (Oceanview) expecting a solid, fast-moving police thriller, you’ll be satisfied. But you’ll also discover much more. David Putnam’s seventh novel about the world of Los Angeles County officer Bruno Johnson involves a hunt for escaped convicts through the meanest streets of Los Angeles. The…
Dennis HetzelFebruary 12, 2020
I was on fire. I’d never felt this sort of rage before, the kind that blinds, the kind that was sinking itself into my skin, over and over and over. The speaker in Sara Koffi’s While We Were Burning (G.P. Putnam's Sons) is Elizabeth Smith, and her life is falling…
Neil NyrenMarch 29, 2024
In The Girl With No Name (Bookouture), bestselling author Lisa Regan returns to the town of Denton, PA, and its newly appointed police chief, Josie Quinn. Josie was close to becoming a victim herself in capturing a serial killer who abducted and killed girls for pleasure. She thinks the nightmare…
K.L. RomoOctober 7, 2020
https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Vanishing-Girls-Lisa-Regan.jpg In Vanishing Girls (Grand Central Publishing), bestselling author Lisa Regan takes readers into the heart and mind of Detective Josie Quinn, a woman who admits her childhood damaged her, and she's nowhere near perfect. Josie might have anger issues, but why shouldn’t she? She’s separated from her police officer…
K.L. RomoAugust 13, 2020
In Her Mother’s Grave (Grand Central), bestselling author Lisa Regan takes readers further inside the life of Denton, Pennsylvania’s police chief, Josie Quinn, as a 30-year-old murder resurfaces. Josie has always tried to forget her childhood. What’s done is done, and she doesn’t want to bring up the real-life ghosts…
K.L. RomoJanuary 11, 2021
Fans of detective stories love a good murder mystery. But besides the whodunnit chase, USA Today bestselling author Rob Leininger provides a story filled with witty banter and snarky conversation in his newest novel, Gumshoe in the Dark (Oceanview Publishing), book five in the Mortimer Angel “Gumshoe” detective series. Forty-three-year-old…
K.L. RomoJune 1, 2021
Despite how important it is, the way American public health policy is often discussed in media and literature is often much too complex and inaccessible for most of the population. With it being so closely tied to our divisive national politics, this often creates issues, issues that Greg Vigdor tackles…
Wyatt SemenukJuly 5, 2022
For those of us who try to live our lives in a judgment-free zone, what are we to make of Joseph Finder’s latest thriller, Judgment (Dutton)? Should we judge Juliana Brody for not wanting to stay cooped up in her hotel room after nailing a speech at a legal conference?…
Jim AlkonJanuary 28, 2019
Think of all the times people have described a book to you by saying it starts off slowly but you’ll get into it. Frankly, that never cut it for me. Author Katherine Burnette subconsciously must have been listening. That’s because before you’ve left the first two pages of her legal…
Jim AlkonMay 26, 2022
Compelling readers to turn the pages in a novel with a hateful anti-hero and few sympathetic characters is tricky, but A.F. Brady succeeds and captivates in the complex, intricately plotted and propulsive psychological thriller Once A Liar (Park Row Books). A.F. Brady, the pseudonym of a Manhattan psychotherapist, is also…
Ann LinebergerApril 9, 2019
Megan Miranda has followed up her 2019 Reese’s Book Club pick The Last House Guest with the highly anticipated The Girl from Widow Hills (Simon & Schuster). Twenty years ago, Arden Maynor was a child prone to sleepwalking. She disappears from her house in Widow Hills, KY, during a tremendous…
Ann LinebergerJune 24, 2020
If ever there was a book begging for a sequel, it’s One Dead, Two to Go, and if One Dead is your introduction to author Elena Hartwell and her work, you’re in luck. This is the first in a trio of murder mysteries (now in paperback!) starring the refreshing and…
Sherri DaleyMarch 19, 2024