Snowy winters, Sidewalk chalk, Good meals, bad guys, sleeping in tents, and troubled marriages: who would have seen this? Reading a book with a cup of hot full fat milk coffee, in rainy season, sitting in front of a giant glass window, feeling a little shimmer but a book is there to make you warm- not forgetting the coffee -abound in this assortment of early fall thrillers. These high-end novels give new twists and turn to familiar themes.
“The Bitter Taste of Murder”, by Camilla Trinchieri
A young Tuscan police officer in Camilla Trinchieri’s second mystery about Nico Doyle (after “Murder in Chianti” last year “) advises the detective to the retreat from the NYPD who, when examining the suspects in the murderous poisoning of a hateful wine critic: “Fry the fish, but watch the cat. Doyle is a gentleman but often melancholy: he left New York to Tuscany under a legal cloud and lost his Italian wife, Rita, to cancer. He now works in Rita’s family restaurant and helps his friend Salvatore Perillo solves crimes. Trinchieri writes two more mysterious series under them. Names of Trella Crespi and Camilla T. Crepi, but it’s the one with dishes like spaghetti all arrabbiata to savor on almost every page, adding considerable pleasure to the book.
A-Line to Kill’, by Anthony Horowitz
“Two Thousand Alcoholics clinging to a Rock” is the unoriginal but fairly convincing description of the Channel Island of Alderney, the setting for Anthony Horowitz’s latest novel. He is the third with former detective Daniel Hawthorne, fired by Scotland Yard for throwing an accused pedophile down a staircase. Rosenfield, the author of two YA novels and a novel is written by superhero icon Stan Lee, explores class, provincialism, and bad marriage in a book that is both humorous and bloodthirsty satirical. Her characteristics – of Lizzie, her opiate-addicted husband, and a wonderfully hideous Boston couple who rent out Lizzie’s summer cabin – hit the mark. Lizzie’s fate may have been predicted when she was a little girl, and a neighbor’s boy killed her cat. What happened to this sadistic boy? Lizzie tells us, much later, that “reader, I married him”.
“Damascus Station”, by David McCloskey
Set during the Syrian Civil War, former CIA analyst David McCloskey’s gripping spy thriller is filled with “paranoia, everyone’s birthright the Syrians “, the multiple” daily brutality “of Bashar al-Asad” security “and the often Byzantine machinations of foreign and internal opponents of the regime, including the Obama administration. The protagonist, CIA agent Sam Joseph, is both a good explanatory of the horrific history of modern Syria and an expert in gathering human information that the United States must thwart Assad’s chemical weapons program. Less convincing is Joseph’s relationship with her main asset, the well-connected Mariam Haddad. The espionage genre seems to require periodic “slow-motion kidnappings” these days, and McCloskey is respectful about that.
“The Corpse Flower”, by Anne Mette Hancock
The title of this flawlessly structured murder mystery refers to a Sumatran flower that attracts cockroaches by “emitting a smell of death.” The factory is mentioned in a letter sent by wanted killer Anna Kiel to Copenhagen journalist Heloise Kaldan, whose career is in danger after being burned by a source. An emotionally shaking Kaldan joins the “dry and undiplomatic” police detective Erik Schafer – they are the stars of the award-winning Hancock series – to uncover not only the heart-wrenching roots of murder, but a corner of Danish society that the two manage to find barely endure.
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