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 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
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....
Paris by the Book
Paris by the Book (Dutton, $26.00), by Liam Callanan, begins with a riveting premise: Leah’s husband goes missing from his home in Milwaukee. Despite all the efforts of the police there is no trace of him, but the narrator rejects any suggestion that he’s dead. The...
The Flight Attendant
Chris Bohjalian’s The Flight Attendant (Double Day) features perhaps the most screwed-up heroine in recent crime literature. Cassandra Bowden is a flight attendant who has just completed the run from Paris to Dubai and either picks up or gets picked up by a charming...
Tangerine
Tangerine by Christine Mangan (Harper Collins) is not about fruit. Beautifully written, it’s set shortly after World War II in Tangier and begins with newly-married Alice, an English woman a few years out of college, arriving in Morocco with her husband. He apparently...
The Day She Disappeared
I once thought that clarity was a virtue in writing fiction. It’s certainly not in Christobel Kent’s The Day She Disappeared (Sarah Crichton Books, $27.00). A mystery told in three viewpoints: the heroine, an English barmaid, a ninety-two-year-old man, and the killer,...