Deception Cove

Deception Cove

Owen Laukkanen’s Deception Cove (Little Brown, $28.00) has adopted a familiar plot-line — the handsome, tough stranger strolls into a crummy little town run by crooked cops. Sounds like a Clint Eastwood movie doesn’t it?  Or another Jack Reacher book. And like a Lee...
Girls Like Us

Girls Like Us

Girls Like Us (Putman, $26.00) by Cristina Alger is a fast three evening read. FBI agent Nell Flynn has returned home for the funeral of her father who was a detective in the Suffolk county police force on Long Island. While there, a partially decomposed body of a...
Conviction

Conviction

Denise Mina rated a full-page interview recently in the New York Times Book Review about her new thriller, Conviction (Mulholland Books, $27.00).  I found it to be perhaps the most disappointing book I have ever reviewed.   Conviction starts with a great subplot. A...