Fall/Winter Mysteries. Girl In The Dark by. Marion Pauw. Publisher: William Morrow / 3 bolts. Reviewed by Ray Palen for New Mystery. Reader The latest in the seemingly endless wave or Nordic.
U. S. is author Marion. Pauw. GIRL IN THE DARK has already won a literary award for Best Dutch Crime. Novel as well as being adapted into a film.
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From the title I expected something dark and moody and was. GIRL IN THE. DARK is much less Jo Nesbo and actually reminded of something an author like. Jodi Picoult might have penned.
With the huge success of Gillian Flynn's GONE GIRL, using. Pauw utilizes this technique in GIRL IN THE DARK. Sometimes. In addition, there. Iris is a single- mother, an attorney and mother to a very. Aaron. She also has an overbearing. Agatha who has always seemed to Iris like she was hiding. Our other protagonist is Ray. Ray begins the novel in prison having.
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He is shortly thereafter transferred. Of course, the big secret (NOT a spoiler) is that Iris and. Ray are siblings. When Iris discovers this she is furious at her mother and. When she visits. Ray she is alarmed at the resemblance to both their mother as well as her son. Aaron. She becomes aware of the reason behind Ray's incarceration and she finds.
Flashback chapters introduce us to Ray's former neighbors. Rosita and her daughter Anna. It is these two females. Ray taking the fall for the crime. Of course. Rosita and Anna is an abusive, loud- mouthed jerk. Ray makes it a point to take out some aggression on him and his prized.
It will not take a very astute mystery/thriller reader to surmise what. Rosita and Anna and who was responsible. The rest of the novel is about a family seeking to heal. Iris makes it her mission to re- open her brother's case and see him.
There are some twists. What I found most interesting was the lack of. Nordic atmosphere. It felt like this novel could have been set anywhere which. U. S. readers. Pacific Burn by Barney Lancet. Publisher: Simon & Schuster / 3. Jim Bodie is a San Francisco art dealer and part- time PI.
He has recently been recruited to serve as liaison for the Pacific Rim. Friendship Program by the mayor of San Francisco due to his expertise in. Japanese culture and fluency in the language. These same talents have landed. Brodie a position as a consultant for the SFPD.
Brodie receives a call from Detective Lieutenant Frank. Renna. There has been the death of a Japanese man and there is a young boy. Japanese at the scene. The murder has taken place in Napa wine.
However, the department’s. Brodie’s assistance has been requested in. What began as a professional duty to the police quickly. The victim is Toru Nobuki – known to Bodie as a gifted artist.
Even more shocking and heartbreaking is Toru’s eight year son who. Bodie’s help. After these events, Bodie’s life seems to settle down to a. Bodie’s duties to the Asia- San. Francisco cultural exchange has resumed with a ceremony including the mayor, Ken. Kobuki –Toru’s father – and Brodie.
The ceremony is disrupted by a sniper’s. Brodie manages to push Kobuki down – saving his life but not before a. Ken’s head and inflicts critical injury to his brain.
Hours after escaping with his life, Brodie is at the. Brodie. narrowly escapes with his life while saving Ken’s from the hands of a mysterious. Brodie reaches out to warn Ken’s family of possible danger.
He is surprised when, Naomi, Ken’s daughter calls him unaware of the events. She. has been in the U.
S. on a retreat with her husband and has just arrived in. Washington. Brodie uses his connection to a D. C. detective agency to provide. Arriving as quickly as possible in Washington, Brodie is. FBI and CIA. He senses that he may have an ally in the FBI agent. The CIA is intent upon. Naomi because of her outspoken criticism of the Tokyo power company’s. Brodie stands his ground and is able to protect Naomi at the cost of.
CIA. Brodie flies to Tokyo to protect Ken’s wife and youngest. Using the resources of his detective agency in Japan, he investigates and.
Steam. Walker. Unfortunately, the youngest son and his fiancée are killed. Bodie has. several narrow escapes from the Walker. He has to find the motive and the person. Fanatic opposition to the Pacific Rim Friendship. Program and powerful supporters of the nuclear power program are possibilities. Pacific Burn is interesting and intriguing on several. The mystery plot is sound.
Brodie’s interaction in two cultures gives. The international political intrigue adds another dimension. Readers will not be bored. However, the intricate plot, multiple important. This not a. casual read. The Guest Room by.
Chris Bohjalian. Publisher: Doubleday / 4. Reviewed by Ray Palen for New Mystery Reader. Best- selling author Chris Bohjalian has had great success. I have to hand it to Bohjalian for stepping way out of the box. THE NIGHT STRANGERS which was a classic ghost story and. THE GUEST ROOM, which rivals the best suspense thrillers on. The set- up for this novel is chilling and extremely.
Richard Chapman is a wealthy NYC banker who lives with his family in. Westchester town of Bronxville. He offers to host his younger. Philip's bachelor party at his fancy home and makes sure his wife and. A small group of Philip's friends gather for the. These are not just any strippers but Russian prostitutes who arrive with two. While Richard is off in the family guest room. Russian. vixen, Alexandra, his brother Philip and some of his friends are exercising.
Richard's daughter's bedroom). This is not the messy part. Things take a wicked twist. Alexandra and one of her colleagues suddenly attack and kill the two. Russian men who accompanied them before fleeing the premises. Richard and. Richard's wife and Philip's fiancée what actually. What happens next is brilliant to watch. Chapters. Richard and the downward spiral this incident.
Alexandra. We find out. Alexandra was less a prostitute and more a sex slave and readers will find. Richard, on the other hand, must now. Philip's friends named Spencer.
The paths of Richard and Alexandra eventually cross again. Richard's Bronxville home. The showdown this. Richard, his family and Alexandra against some very angry. Russian mobsters seeking to avenge their fallen brothers. This is the most. Bohjalian book the author has ever put together and long- time fans (like. THE GUEST ROOM is an edge- of- your- seat thriller with deeply layered.
Funeral Hotdish by. Jana Bommersbach.
Publisher: Poison Pen. Press / 4 bolts. Reviewed by. Karen Treanor, New Mystery Reader.
If you want to know how to make a tomato. Joya Bonner is a hard- working journalist. Phoenix Arizona who stumbles into the story of her career. On the basis of. recognising a supposedly retired mafia capo, she finagles her way into. Sammy “The Bull” Gravano. True crime fans will realise that. Sammy is a real- life villain who’s presently in jail for his most recent sins.
The author has drawn on some of her own real experiences for background and. On the other side of the country in. Joya’s tiny home town in North Dakota, a high school rave party ends in tragedy. Amber Schlener dead after taking ecstasy, and her boyfriend Johnny. Roth in a coma, roundly condemned for having brought drugs to the party. Suspected of being the pusher is local ne’er- do- well Darryl “Crabapple”. Harding. Quite a few local people would happily see Darryl get a one- way ticket.
Darryl reappears as a messy corpse, gory. Sherriff Potter homes in on three of the town’s respected elders, who. Darryl. One. of the suspects is Joya’s father. Having got the scoop of her career with. Sammy Gravano, Joya goes home to provide moral support to her. The. sheriff comes to Joya’s parents’ home and tries to confiscate her father’s. Joya stands her ground and demands to see his warrant. She is.
She knows this because she’s run off the road on a snowy evening. Coincidentally a dark blue car comes along later driven by. Phoenix. Joya is scared but not about to be put. Northville. She. When Johnny Roth is.
Crabapple. Interlaced with the story of big- city. Anyone who ever lived in a small town will relate to the characters. Brotherhood In Death. J D Robb. Publisher: Piatkus. Books / 4. 5 bolts. Reviewed by. Karen Treanor, New Mystery Reader. This is the 4. 1st in one of.
I. have read all of them at least twice, and reviewed many, so count myself as. All the books feature Lt.
Eve Dallas of. the New York Police and Security Department, her upbeat sidekick Delia Peabody. Roarke. Not all of the books in the series. I’ve skipped pages due to. Brotherhood in Death” has its awful. Eve is. similarly torn between duty and something much more personal. The story opens with Eve’s being. Dr Charlotte Mira, the police department’s star shrink and.
Mira’s husband, the lovable, mild- mannered and harmless Professor. Dennis Mira has been attacked at his grandfather’s old brownstone when his.
Edward was kidnapped. No ransom demand is forthcoming, which makes the. Eve, who tries unsuccessfully to pry some.
Edward Mira’s wife, a woman as cold as a repo man’s heart. Edward turns up dangling from the. A post mortem shows a tiny tattoo in a. What do these men have in common? When a third man goes missing, the common. One trusts author Robb’s legal team has advised her. Ivy League schools as the site of an.
Eve discovers the motive for the. In a tragedy of. errors, while trying to comfort Dennis Mira she reveals to him her own pain and. We can see in Dennis. Mira the father that Eve (and every abused child) should have had. Eve’s. As usual, there’s a lot of hard.
Eve’s team of detectives and her clever husband; together they. And if they do, does he deserve. You be the judge.
The Oxford Inheritance. Ann A. Mc. Donald. Publisher: William Morrow / 4 bolts. Reviewed by Bonnye Busbice.
Good, New Mystery Reader Cassie Blackwell has always dreamed of attending Oxford. University and it’s a dream her loving parents back home in the States have. At least, that’s what she tells her new peers and. In fact, Cassie’s life looks like a fairytale; her hard. Smith helped her earn a year of study at the vaunted British.
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