String quartet aficionados should hasten to read Lovesey’s fascinating “The Tooth Tattoo.” Strictly speaking, the novel is a police procedural, but the kicker is that the prime suspects in three murders are the members of a world-class string quartet called Staccati.
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Rezension: T. Jefferson Parker: “The Famous and the Dead”
This is the sixth and last of his novels about the Los Angeles County lawman Charlie Hood. In the first book, “L.A. Outlaws,” Charlie fell in love with a gorgeous schoolteacher who had a secret life as a latter-day Robin Hood.
Rezension: Becky Masterman: “Rage Against the Dying”
There’s a lot to admire in Becky Materman’s first novel, starting with her heroine: petite, white-haired, 59-year-old FBI agent Brigid Quinn. Although retired, Brigid uses her friendshipswith local law enforcement officer to elbow her way into investigations.
Rezension: Kate Rhodes: “Crossbones Yard”
“Crossbones Yard,” a first novel by the British poet Kate Rhodes, is a fast-moving, entertaining mix of sex, suspense and serial killings. It’s billed as the start of a series built around 32-year-old psychologist Alice Quentin.
Rezension: Gerald Seymour: “A Deniable Death”
An extraordinary thriller about the makeshift bombs that were used against American soldiers in Iraq. The veteran British spy novelist Gerald Seymour has written an extraordinary work of fiction with these cruel weapons at its center.
Rezension: Ian Rankin: “Standing in Another Man’s Grave”
It’s been 20 years since Rankin’s first novel about Edinburgh detective John Rebus reached these shores, and during those two decades Rebus has become one of the great modern cops.
Rezension: John Harvey: “Good Bait”
The English novelist John Harvey’s 19th novel arrives with praise from two of America’s finest crime writers. “Crime fiction at its best,” says George Pelecanos. “A master of the craft” adds Michael Connelly.
Rezension: David Baldacci: “The Forgotten”
David Baldacci’s new bestseller-to-be is a good example of a certain type of commercially successful novel. The book is a fantasy, a prose cartoon, but if you buy into its highly improbable plot, it’s readable enough and at times even exciting.
Rezension: Michael Connelly: “The Black Box”
In 1992, Michael Connelly’s first novel, “The Black Echo,” introduced Detective Harry Bosch of the Los Angeles Police Department. Now, 20 years later, we have the 18th Bosch novel, “The Black Box.”
Rezension: Robert Littell: “Young Philby”
A spy’s surreal early life is fertile ground for a master of the genre in Robert Littell’s “Young Philby.” In “Young Philby,” Littell finds much that is seriously strange in the career of Harold Adrian Russell “Kim” Philby (1912-88), the most famous real-life spy of the 20th century.
Rezension: Linwood Barclay: “Trust your eyes”
Thomas Kilbride, the young man at the center of Linwood Barclay’s delightful new novel, spends up to 16 hours a day at his computer. Mostly, he’s at the Whirl360 website, where he can explore almost every street in most of the world’s cities.
Rezension: Linwood Barclay: “Trust Your Eyes”
Thomas Kilbride, the young man at the center of Linwood Barclay’s delightful new novel, spends up to 16 hours a day at his computer. Mostly, he’s at the Whirl360 Web site, where he can explore almost every street in most of the world’s cities.
Rezension: Ruth Rendell: “The St. Zita Society”
“The St. Zita Society” is both a sex comedy and a social satire, of the “Upstairs Downstairs” variety, with a few murders mixed in for our added delight. St. Zita is the patron saint of domestic servants.
Rezension: Peter de Jonge: “Buried on Avenue B”
New York Police Detective Darlene O’Hara starts most workdays with an 8 a.m. vodka and grapefruit juice in a dive called Milano’s that’s not far from the Homicide South headquarters in the Lower East Side.
Rezension: Tana French: “Broken Harbor”
Tana French’s new novel begins as a police procedural and evolves into a psychological thriller of exceptional complexity and depth. At the outset, two Dublin detectives are summoned to a horrific crime scene.
Rezension: Carsten Stroud: “Niceville”
This strange, outrageous and wonderful novel is not for everyone. If you turn to fiction for comfort, uplift or the milk of human kindness, you should avoid Carsten Stroud’s novel “Niceville”.
Rezension: Qiu Xiaolong: “Don’t Cry, Tai Lake”
When Qiu Xiaolong, the author of this odd, was a teenager in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution, the only way he could read Sherlock Holmes stories was to hide his book beneath the red-plastic cover of “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung.”
Rezension: Ed Falco: “The Family Corleone”
Mario Puzo (1920-99) was one of 12 children born in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen to two illiterate Neapolitan immigrants. Puzo graduated from City College, loved the novels of Dostoyevsky and in his 20s began writing stories for pulp magazines.
Rezension: Olen Steinhauer: “An American Spy”
As readers of Olen Steinhauer’s two previous Milo Weaver novels know, Weaver has been part of a secret CIA assassination bureau, dubbed the Department of Tourism, although he wants to retire and live peacefully with his wife and child.
Rezension: Chris Pavone: “The Expats”
Perhaps the most interesting thing about Chris Pavone’s book “The Expats” is that his offbeat spy story has become that rarity — a first novel on its way to major commercial success. Here’s some background.