Escape is the third in the Billy Harney series of thrillers by James Patterson and David Ellis. Harney leads an elite team of Chicago police. The book opens with Harney and his partner, Clara, hot on the trail of a pedophile kidnapper. They chase the man into a house,...
Neon Prey, published in 2019, is John Sandford’s 29th book in the Prey series featuring Lucas Davenport. For newcomers to the series, Davenport is a burly former hockey player turned cop, who made millions in the software business as he became a top homicide...
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 Twenty, by Sam Holland, is an engaging serial killer police procedural thriller set in the UK. I must confess up front that I am not a big fan of serial killer fiction. I am ambivalent about the voyeurism it encourages, the disingenuous way it seeks to entertain...
Robert B. Parker’s Bad Influence – A Sunny Randall Novel by Alison Gaylin. If you’re familiar with the late, great Robert B. Parker’s Boston, you’ll know Sunny Randall. She’s a former cop who now works as a private investigator in Boston. She has had an on again...
