Review Roundup

 

Some recent books in review:

• Tulsa World covered Too Close to Home by Linwood Barclay. (" Barclay is able to weave humor into his characters through a well-paced story while keeping tensions high and surprises coming.")
  
  
• Sarah Weinman reviewed 3 books for the Baltimore Sun:  The Paris Enigma by Pablo De Santis, Shot Girl by Karen E. Olson and Old Flame by Ira Berkowitz.
• Jon Land in the Providence Journal reviewed new thrillers The Spy Who Came for Christmas by David Morrell, Steve Berry’s latest, The Charlemagne Pursuit, and The Memorist by M.J. Rose.
  
  
• The New York Examiner took a closer look at The Blue Door by David Fulmer and hopes the novel will be the first in a series of Philadelphia stories, much like New Orleans set the stage for his successful Storyville trilogy.
• The Chicago Tribune continued its one-minute crime fiction reviews with Third Strike: A Charlie Fox Thriller by Zoë Sharp, The Children of Black Valley by Evan Kilgore, The Fourth Victim by Tony Spinosa and The First Quarry by Max Allan Collins.
• The Dallas News liked Laurie Moore's madcap mystery Jury Rigged, wondering why her novels haven't hit the big screen.
• The Glass of Time, a Victorial thriller by Michael Cox, was reviewed by Michael Sims at the LA Times, "creating a story that is somehow both leisurely and gripping."
• And the Denver Post reviewed three new crime fiction books, Without Conscience, by David Stuart Davies, The Good Thief's Guide to Paris, by Chris Ewan, and Six Geese A-Slaying, by Donna Andrews.