Scott Turow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Turow) gives us Rusty Sabich. He is chief deputy prosecuting attorney in a large mid-western city. His boss is in the midst of a bitter campaign for re-election. A fellow prosecuting attorney, Carolyn Polhemus, has been brutally murdered. Rusty is handling the investigation– and he needs results. Before election day. Before his illicit affair […]
In the fourth Dan Kavanagh (a.k.a. Julian Barnes, http://www.dankavanagh.com/index.html) novel, bisexual detective Duffy finds himself investigating a mysterious death in a country mansion. Dan Kavanagh a.k.a. Julian Barnes HarperCollins reprint paperback edition. ISBN 978-0060809539
Prolific crime writer and film producer Peter James (http://www.peterjames.com/, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_James_(writer)) has been publishing novels since 1981. He has been translated into 36 languages. His 2013 offering is Dead Man’s Time (The ninth book in the Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series). The summary goes as follows: A vicious robbery at a secluded Brighton mansion leaves its elderly
Karin Slaughter (born in a small community in Georgia, http://www.karinslaughter.com/) has sold more than 30 million copies of her books, and is published in 32 languages. ‘Criminal’ is the seventh book in the Will Trent series. The summary of this 2012 novel goes as follows: It is an epic tale of love, loyalty, and murder that
This is the first of Ellroy’s ‘L.A. Quartet’ – The Black Dahlia (1987), The Big Nowhere (1988) L.A. Confidential (1990), and White Jazz (1992). It’s Los Angeles 1947. Warrants Squad cops Bucky Bleichart and Lee Blanchard are called in to investigate the brutal murder of a beautiful young girl (christened ‘The Black Dahlia’ by the press) found
