McDermid, Val. A Place of Execution (1999)St. Martin’s, 465 pages, $6.99 mass market paperback ISBN 0-312-97953-3 Recommended British writer Catherine Heathcote has nearly finished her book about a famous case, the disappearance of 13-year-old Alison Carter 25 years earlier. Although Heathcote has interviewed all the people still living who were involved in […]
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Lehane, Dennis. A Drink Before the War (1994) HarperCollins, 277 pages, $6.99 mass market paperback ISBN 0 380 72623 8 Sometimes it pays to start reading a series at the beginning. And sometimes it doesn’t. After discovering Dennis Lehane in Gone, Baby, Gone, I decided to get to know Patrick Kenzie
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Coben, Harlan. Gone for Good (2002) Delacorte, 341 pages, $23.95 hardcover ISBN 0-385-33558-X While looking over his mother’s belongings just after her death from cancer, Will Klein discovers a photograph that indicates his brother, Ken, may still be alive. Eleven years earlier Will’s former girlfriend and neighbor, Julie Miller, was murdered in their suburban
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Coben, Harlan. Tell No One (2001) Delacorte, 339 pages, $22.95 hardcover ISBN 0-385-33555 Recommended Spoiler Alert! This review gives away plot details that may spoil the reading experience for you. Proceed at your own peril! You’ll get a second warning below. “Don’t start this book at bedtime,” several people told me. “I stayed up all
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Harlan Coben was born in Newark, NJ, in 1962 and grew up in Livingston, NJ. He continues to live in NJ with his wife, a pediatrician, and their four children. He graduated from Amherst College with a major in political science. Coben is the first author to win all three of mystery’s most prestigious awards:
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Connelly, Michael. Blood Work (1998). Little Brown, 391 pages, $23.95 hardcover ISBN 0 316 15399 0 Taking a break from LAPD detective Harry Bosch, Michael Connelly introduces a new character, former FBI agent Terry McCaleb. We first meet McCaleb two months after his heart transplant surgery, living in a Los Angeles marina
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Connelly, Michael. The Concrete Blonde (1994). St. Martin’s, 397 pages, $5.99 mass market paperback. ISBN 0 312 95500 6 Four years earlier, during the hunt for the serial killer known as the Dollmaker, LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch had followed a lead to a small apartment, where he confronted and killed
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Connelly, Michael. The Black Ice (1993). St. Martin’s, 368 pages, $6.99 mass market paperback ISBN 0 312 95281 3 It’s Christmas Day, and L.A. homicide detective Harry Bosch is on call. When he hears a broadcast for a homicide on the police scanner, he wonders why he, the on-call detective, hasn’t been notified. Bosch
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Walters, Minette. The Echo (1997) Penguin Putnam, 351 pages, $6.99 paperback ISBN 0 515 12256 4 When a homeless man known as Billy Blake dies of malnutrition in the garage of an expensive home in London, police are unable to discover anything about the man’s true identity. Several months later journalist Michael Deacon is
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Walters, Minette. The Scold’s Bridle (1994) St. Martin’s, 365 pages, $5.99 paperback ISBN 0 312 95612 6 Recommended Nobody is very concerned when the body of Mathilda Gillespie, a venomous old woman, is discovered in her bathtub. Mathilda apparently has committed suicide by slitting her wrists while wearing her scold’s bridle, an ancient
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