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.
Dark Sacred Night
Michael Connelly is back in Dark Sacred Night (Little Brown, $29.00). Once again, we see Harry Bosch, now 69, retired, and working cold cases for San Fernando Valley Police, a much smaller force than the LAPD. He meets up with the character whom Connelly created in...
The Rules of Engagement
I have a bad habit of buying a book from the local independent book store, and never getting around to reading it. I had The Rules of Engagement (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $24.00) sitting on my shelf for years, when one...
Ultima
Ultima (Zaffre, $27.00) is the third and final thriller in the series by L.S. Hilton following the amazing life of Londoner Judith Rashleigh. The first book, Maestra, showed Judith working as a junior art appraiser at a London auction house who was constantly being...
The Wife
It’s not often that I pan a book that is nicely written by a competent, well-known author but The Wife by Alafair Burke (Harper, $26.99) disappointed me. I’ve not been nominated for an Edgar Award but let me pass on my thoughts. This is a “psychological” novel. I...
Paris in the Dark
Robert Olen Butler has written a sexy historical thriller, Paris in the Dark (Grove Atlantic, $26.00). It’s a fast read with three or four well-drawn characters. Butler loves to write in very short sentences. And paragraphs. And dialogue. Sometimes it gets annoying...
Give Me Your Hand
Megan Abbott has written Give Me Your Hand (Little Brown, $27.00), a thriller that no male author could get away with. Academic researchers studying the effects of PMS on women who commit bloody murder. Is that irony? Symbolic? Metaphor? Or a sly joke? Abbott has...