If you fell in the camp that liked Zach Galifianakis “Hangover” movies then by all means avail yourself of Dave Barry’s new novel, “Inmsane City” which replicates the comic franchise’s set-up, step by lurching step.
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Rezension: Cornell Woolrich: “Phantom Lady”
“Phantom Lady” is hardly a new book, having been first published in 1942. But it is one of the most highly regarded of Cornell Woolrich’s many classic noir thrillers. Woolrich almost always focuses on the creation of relentless, unforgiving tension and suspense.
Rezension: Nele Neuhaus: “Snow White Must Die”
Nele Neuhaus has a flair for the ominous and the ornate. Her primary setting, the village of Altenhain, makes those secretive villages in Agatha Christie novels seem as harmless as a collection of gingerbread houses.
Rezension: James Sheehan: “The Lawyer’s Lawyer”
Here’s a dilemma for a lawyer: A serial killer was convicted of a murder and locked up. Now, 10 years later, it comes out that he was framed. The victim’s knife wounds were not caused by the wide Bowie knife that must have been planted at the scene by the police.
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: Stephen Hunter: “The Third Bullet”
Probably the best-known fictional gun expert is former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, hero of a dozen thrillers written by Stephen Hunter. And certainly the best-known gun crime in history is the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
Rezension: Charles Robbins: “The Accomplice”
It gets us every time: The bedrock suspense plot features a guileless man or woman who becomes enmeshed in evil machinations beyond his or her ken. Our innocent must wise up quickly; the unsavory alternative is either to become a fall guy or to die.
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: Sandra Grimes, Jeanne Vertefeuille: “Circle of Treason”
In late May 1991, a small group of CIA and FBI officials began to take a second look at a mystery known in intelligence circles as “the 1985 events.” That year, most of the CIA’s most valued assets in the Soviet Union were compromised, but the reason was still unknown.
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: Dashiell Hammett: “Return of the Thin Man”
Dashiell Hammett created two of the seminal figures in hard-boiled detective fiction: the Continental Op and Sam Spade. But none of his creations proved as endearing as Nick and Nora Charles, the wisecracking crime fighters of “The Thin Man,” his final novel.
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: Keigo Higashino: “Salvation of a Saint”
Such is the promising premise of “Salvation of a Saint”, a crime thriller by Keigo Higashino, whose renown in Japan — dozens of novels, TV shows, movies — has reached such proportions as to make James Patterson seem a bit bashful.
Rezension: Steven Appleby and Art Lester: “The Coffee Table Book of Doom”
This book is written for a neurotic personality: the type who sees the half-empty glass and knows that evaporation will wipe out the rest, day-to-day wear will break the glass and destruction of the Earth will eliminate all evidence that the glass ever existed.
Rezension: John Connolly und Declan Burke: “Books to Die For”
“Books to die for. The World’s Greatest Mystery Writers on the World’s Greatest Mystery Novels“ is a quirky, fascinating collection of mystery writers’ essays on their favorite mystery novels.
Rezension: R. L. Stine: “Red Rain”
After writing 200 books for kids, Stine seems to have trouble adjusting to a more mature and savvy audience. The sex scene feels cliched and out of place. And he sometimes foreshadows what’s going to happen with heavy sarcasm that saps the story of suspense.
Rezension: R. L. Johnson: “Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature’s Undead”
As Rebecca L. Johnson’s creepy and fascinating new book shows, plenty of unfortunate creatures out there get invaded and infected, just like the hollow-eyed zombies that slowly and steadily shuffle through American pop culture.
Rezension: John Grisham: “The Racketeer”
“The Racketeer” is Grisham’s 30th book, and it offers a thorough display of his characteristic virtues: imaginative plotting; a fluent, deceptively effortless prose style; and an insider’s view of our complex, often fatally flawed legal system.
Rezension: B.A. Shapiro: “The Art Forger”
Readers seeking an engaging novel about artists and art scandals will find “The Art Forger” rewarding for its skillful balance of brisk plotting, significant emotional depth and a multi-layered narration rich with a sense of moral consequence.
Rezension: Dennis Lehane: “Live by Night”
Lehane’s latest, “Live by Night,” functions both as an independent narrative and a loosely connected sequel to “The Given Day.” The story begins in 1926, by which time Prohibition — perhaps the greatest gift to organized crime in the country’s history — is in full swing.