The  Midnight  Line

The Midnight Line

New Reacher novel: Long Stretch Several years ago, I discovered the Jack Reacher novels by Lee Child and got hooked. But after five or six, including going back to the early ones, I got burned out. Every book was the same — Reacher wandering into some lonely spot,...
The Good Daughter

The Good Daughter

Karin Slaughter’s The Good Daughter (Harper Collins, $27.99), like many of her novels, is set in rural Georgia and about half the characters, whether sympathetic or villains, are stupid, the worst of whom is a Bible-quoting evangelical. Few other clichés are absent....