O’Connell, Carol. Stone Angel (1997) G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 341 pages, $24.95 hardcover ISBN 0 399 14234 7 In Stone Angel Charles Butler tracks Mallory to Dayborn, Louisiana, where she’s gone in search of her past: “Though she had buried it deep, the act had come back in bits and pieces of unguarded thoughts […]
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O’Connell, Carol. Killing Critics (1996) G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 309 pages, $23.95 hardcover ISBN 0 39914168 5 I found this to be the least enjoyable of O’Connell’s Mallory books. In this installment, an art-related murder leads Mallory back to an unsolved brutal double homicide Markowitz had worked on 12 years earlier. The plot of
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O’Connell, Carol. The Man Who Cast Two Shadows (1995) Jove Books, 308 pages, $6.99 paperback ISBN 0 515 11890 7 After a short prologue, the first chapter of this book opens with a page about the young child Kathy who had a phone number written on her hand. The first three digits of
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Woods,Stuart. Swimming to Catalina (1998) HarperCollins, 311 pages, $25.00 hardcover ISBN 0 06 018369 1 In his latest adventure Stone Barrington travels to Hollywood at the request of the country’s hottest movie star, Vance Calder. Vance is now married to writer Arrington Carter, Stone’s former lover. When Vance tells Stone that Arrington is
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Sandford, John. Secret Prey (1998) G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 392 pages, $24.95 hardcover ISBN 0 399 14382 3 After an interlude with Anna Batory on the West Coast, in Secret Prey John Sandford puts detective Lucas Davenport back to work in Minneapolis. Daniel S. Kresge, chairman of the board, president, and CEO of the
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O’Connell, Carol. Mallory’s Oracle (1994) Jove Books, 310 pages, $5.99 paperback ISBN 0 515 11647 5 NYPD detective Louis Markowitz has been tracking a serial killer who preys on elderly women. Now Markowitz has been murdered, his body found near that of the killer’s latest victim. One of the officers who arrive on
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Grafton, Sue. “N” is for Noose (1998) Henry Holt and Company, 289 pages, $25.00 hardcover ISBN 0 8050 3650 4 Sue Grafton’s new novel finds Kinsey Millhone ready to leave Nevada after caring for Dietz, her off-again, on-again lover, for a couple of weeks after his knee-replacement operation. Dietz refers Kinsey for a
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Grafton, Sue. “J” Is for Judgment (1993) Fawcett Crest, 360 pages, $6.99 paperbackISBN 0 449 22148 2 A little over five years ago Wendell Jaffe disappeared from his sail boat, leaving behind a suicide note and a failed, fraudulent investment company. Jaffe also left behind a business partner who went to jail for fraud, a
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Woods, Stuart. Dead in the Water (1997) Harper Collins, 325 pages, $25.00 hardcover ISBN 0 06 018368 3 Stone Barrington arrives in St. Marks, a Caribbean island nation, where he has chartered a yacht for 10 days of sailing. You can look at this site to know where to buy all the supplies
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Cross, Amanda. In the Last Analysis (1964) rpt. Avon Books, 176 pages, $5.50 paperback ISBN 0-380-54510-1 Carolyn G. Heilbrun, the reality behind the pseudonym Amanda Cross, was a professor at Columbia University in New York City. In Cross’s Kate Fansler mysteries I hoped to find books with a bit more substance than many current
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