The Missing Piece is, I don’t know, the 24th Dismas Hardy novel by John Lescroart. Maybe it’s the 25th, or 22nd. The book is another session with a set of characters we’ve gotten to know over the years: Hardy, the dogged defense attorney, his partner Wes Farrell, who...
Her Deadly Game, by Robert Dugoni, is apparently the first in a series of courtroom novels featuring Keera Duggan, a criminal defense attorney in Seattle. Duggan was formerly an up and coming prosecutor, but an ill-advised relationship with Miller Ambrose, her boss,...
James Ellroy’s newest novel, The Enchanters, brings us back into the life and mind of Fred Otash, which we have encountered in earlier works like Blood’s a Rover. Otash, for the uninitiated, is a disgraced former LA cop and private investigator who extorts and cons...
To Catch a Storm, by Mindy Mejia starts off with Eve, a physicist college professor who studies extreme weather, piloting her research jet through a storm over Iowa. As soon as she lands, she finds that her husband is missing and that his car has been found burning in...
The Viper, John Verdon’s latest novel featuring the retired, but not quite retired New York homicide detective Dave Gurney, starts with Gurney’s placid upstate New York life being interrupted by a request for his skills in investigating a murder. Emma, a friend of...
