Six more good looking books ...
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| Colin Conway - Cutler's Bargain (2022) - review copy from author |
Cutler's Bargain is the fifth in the author's Cutler series. I've enjoyed the previous entries in the series, even though, Cutler isn't my favourite of Colin Conway's characters.
Cutler's Cases
Fourth entry in Frank Zafiro's SpoCompton series, I've loved the first three!
What will it take to stop a drug war? John Cutler is about to find out.
Private investigator John Cutler only wants a peaceful day of drinking at his favorite bar. When a woman interrupts his afternoon with the promise of a lucrative payday, things heat up in his world.
Soon, Cutler is embroiled in a world of drugs, gangs, and double-crosses—all things he would like to avoid. For a man trying to live a better life, he’s hanging around the worst of society.
To avoid more spilled blood, Cutler must use something other than his fists—he’s going to have to use his wits.
Cutler’s Bargain is the fifth book in this gripping series from Colin Conway, the author of the 509 Crime Stories and the Flip-Flop Detective. If you like hard-hitting crime fiction, then you’ll love this book.
Grab Cutler’s Bargain today and join the action!
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| Frank Zafiro - Live and Die This Way (2022) - review copy from author |
Fourth entry in Frank Zafiro's SpoCompton series, I've loved the first three!
All the Pieces Fall
Not quite sure how I 'discovered' this book, but it looks like fun.
Not out until next year and not much of a blurb, but I'm a fan of Anthony Neil Smith's work. A no-brainer that I would want to read this.
Psychological thriller in the Hitchcock tradition told in first person by a South Dakota State Trooper who is shot in the head and tries to redeem himself.
Trucker crime! Recently featured and reviewed by Paperback Warrior, I thought I'll have some of that.
A NOVEL OF CRIME, ADVENTURE, AND LOVE
Billie Jo Higgins may be small, but she is a skilled burglar, using her craft to keep her and Toby, her addict twin brother, afloat in a hard world. It is a difficult life, but the two are surviving. They take care of each other.
Then B.J. stumbles into the wrong house at the wrong time and sees something she shouldn't. The explosive secret she now holds is dangerous, and the person it threatens immediately pursues B.J. with the solitary intent of silencing her forever.
Suddenly, "survival" takes on a whole new meaning...
(*NOTE: Jack McCrae mysteries, Sandy Banks thrillers, and Stanley Melvin PI Stories also take place in the shared universe of the SpoCompton series)
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| Matt Orlando - Truncated: Apocalyptic and Loving It! (2017) - Amazon purchase |
Not quite sure how I 'discovered' this book, but it looks like fun.
A darkly hilarious look into the apocalypse… and us.
Bill is a small fish in the big ocean that is Orange County California. He just can’t reach the top, and he just can’t let that fact go. He’s miserable and miserably bored. But when a series of natural and man-induced calamities brings the apocalypse into high gear, Bill’s life finally gets interesting. He’s a lone wolf in a crazy new world and he’s loving it. That is, until he becomes the reluctant leader of a band of misfit survivors who are putting a damper on his newfound coolness. With any luck, they’ll make it to his mom’s in NorCal without getting shot.
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| Anthony Neil Smith - Trooper Down (2023) - review copy from Net Galley |
Not out until next year and not much of a blurb, but I'm a fan of Anthony Neil Smith's work. A no-brainer that I would want to read this.
Psychological thriller in the Hitchcock tradition told in first person by a South Dakota State Trooper who is shot in the head and tries to redeem himself.
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| John H. Arbor - Joe Broderick's Woman (1978) - purchased copy |
Trucker crime! Recently featured and reviewed by Paperback Warrior, I thought I'll have some of that.
A NOVEL OF CRIME, ADVENTURE, AND LOVE
TO KEEP HIS WOMAN, JOE BRODERICK TAKES ON THE CRIME LORD, SARTORIUS ROTH. BUT ROTH WANTS TO TERRORIZE HIS OWN SYNDICATE. TO DO THIS HE PLANS TO EXECUTE JOE'S WOMAN IN FRONT OF HIS OWN MEN. THE CLOCK IS RUNNING AND JOE MUST BEAT IT IF HE'S TO SAVE ALETHA'S LIFE.
Scott Turow is an author I've been meaning to read for years. Now's my chance.
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| Scott Turow - Suspect (2022) - review copy from Isis Audio |
Scott Turow is an author I've been meaning to read for years. Now's my chance.
The scandalous new novel from the godfather of the legal thriller.
Lucia Gomez is a female police chief in a man’s world and she’s walked a fine line to succeed at the top. Now a trio of police officers in Kindle County have accused her of soliciting sex for promotions and she’s in deep.
Rik Dudek is an attorney and old friend of Lucia’s. He’s the only one she can trust, but he’s never had a headline criminal case. This ugly smear campaign is already breaking the internet and will be his biggest challenge yet.
Clarice ‘Pinky’ Granum is a fearless PI who plays by her own rules. Her 4-D imagination is her biggest asset when it comes to digging up dirt for Rik but not all locks are best picked.
It’s cops against cops in this hive of lies. And it will take more than honeyed words from the defence to change the punchline and save the Chief from her own cell.
Oh, I really like Scott Turow's work, Col. I'm very happy to see that you've got one of his books there, and I hope you'll like it a lot. He writes, in my opinion, great legal novels. Also good to see Conway there, too. It looks as though you're in for a good set of reads here.
ReplyDeleteMargot, I'm enjoying it so far. I always intended to read Presumed Innocent, but never got around to it. Conway.... he keeps them coming, doesn't he?
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