Kids killing other kids: The horror always jolts us because we remember childhood games and giggled secrets, not murder, yet the ugly presence of bullying paints a different reality. In Scottish author Lisa Ballantyne’s harrowing first novel, 8-year-old Ben Stokes is the victim.
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Rezension: Mohammed Hanif: “Our Lady of Alice Bhatti”
Alice Bhatti, junior nurse, recently released from 14 months in jail for an unseemly dust-up we’ll only learn about later, applies for a job at the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments, a shambling Catholic institution that can accommodate 7,000 patients at a time.
Rezension: Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard: »Killing Lincoln«
Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s book offers »a saga of courage, cowardice and betrayal« with »lessons … relevant to all our lives.« Those lessons are not entirely clear after reading »Killing Lincoln«, but O’Reilly and Dugard suggest that they involve awareness.
Rezension: Stephen King: »11/22/63«
First, the (possibly) bad news: If you’re expecting Stephen King to provide an alternative history of what America would have been like had John F. Kennedy not been assassinated in Dallas, put those expectations aside.
Rezension: John Grisham: »The Litigators«
Are JG’s titles following a slow ramp to dreariness? The muted menace of »The Firm« and »The Client« has given way to such spine-tinglers as »The Broker« and now »The Litigators«. With a chill of foreboding, I await »The Trademark and Copyright Specialists«.
Rezension: Richard Stevenson: »Red White Black and Blue«
Bruises afflict nearly everyone and everything in Richard Stevenson’s 12th Donald Strachey mystery. Hired thugs pummel Strachey, a gay Albany PI, as he tries to get the dirt on Louderbush, a candidate for governor of New York running in the Democratic primary.
Rezension: Laura Lippman: »The Most Dangerous Thing«
Maybe »The most dangerous thing« isn’t the specter of bogeymen in the woods or old companions who can’t keep their mouths shut; maybe »The most dangerous thing« turns out to be the relentless passage of time.
Rezension: Charles Frazier »Nightwoods«
Sorry, haters, but this is a fantastic book: an Appalachian Gothic with a low-level fever that runs alternately warm and chilling. Frazier has left the 19th century and the picaresque form to produce a cleverly knitted thriller.
Rezension: Gianrico Carofiglio: »Temporary Perfections«
Gianrico Carofiglio, the author of the Guido Guerrieri legal thrillers – »Temporary Perfections« is the fourth – is as exacting, contemplative and sometimes downright poky as any crime writer I can think of.
Rezension: Zoran Drvenkar »Sorry«
A man whose name we do not know knocks on the door of a woman who also remains anonymous. She recognizes the visitor and invites him in. After a bit of small talk, he renders her unconscious and drives her to an apartment, where he nails her hands to the wall.
Rezension: Stella Rimington »Rip Tide«
In 2004, at age 69, Stella Rimington published »At Risk«, the first in a series of espionage novels featuring MI5 operative Liz Carlyle. That book marked the start of a successful second career for this remarkable woman.
Rezension: Louise Penny “A Trick Of The Light”
For readers who love a mystery but cannot stomach the relentless violence of much modern crime fiction, a kinder, gentler alternative exists: the cozy. Cozies are mysteries that contain little or no sex, violence or dirty talk.