Blog & Reviews
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Steve Clark is an author and lawyer in Oklahoma City specializing in medical malpractice. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, an honor limited to the top 1% of attorneys. He is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America.
The Secrets We Kept
Lara Prescott’s The Secrets We Kept (Knopf, $26.95) is a big hit, rating reviews in Publisher’s Weekly and The New York Times. The main character, Irina, is the daughter of Russian immigrants who wins a typing contest and therefore a job at a Federal Agency in...
Lady in the Lake
I reviewed Laura Lippman’s Sunburn last year and found it to be an excellent femme fatale story. So, I picked up Lady in the Lake (William Morrow, $26.99) and from the jacket description was expecting another bad-girl thriller. Unfortunately, Lady in the Lake is not...
Big Sky
Kate Atkinson’s Big Sky (Little Brown, $28.00) has been well received and gotten sterling reviews as another thriller in her Jackson Brody private detective series. I had never read her work and was expecting an English version of Jack Reacher since the jacket...
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 (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
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...