Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks.
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Ambassador Philip Kaplan, Night in Tehran
(Melville House)
“This taut and fast-paced novel has a particularly compelling feature: Philip Kaplan, after a career in the State Department, brings to his book a sharp political and international sophistication–rare in thrillers, abundant in Night in Tehran.”
–Alan Furst
Rosemary Simpson, Death, Diamonds and Deception
(Kensington)
“In Simpson’s satisfying fifth Gilded Age mystery (after 2019’s Death Brings a Shadow), Lady Rotherton, Prudence MacKenzie’s redoubtable aunt married to an English peer, visits New York hoping to persuade her unconventional niece to make a respectable marriage.”
–Publishers Weekly
Vito Racanelli, The Man in Milan
(Polis)
“Crackling with energy, humor and verve, Vito Racanelli’s The Man in Milan is a winner. From its dizzying and globe-trotting story to its breakneck pace, you won’t be able to put it down.”
–Megan Abbott
Erle Stanley Gardner, Shills Can’t Cash Chips
(Hard Case Crime)
“What I can say is that for those who like their crime fiction to be high-octane, this novel is a stunner.”
–The Daily Mail
Jon Land and Jessica Fletcher, Murder, She Wrote: Murder in Season
(Berkley)
–“Land’s satisfying sixth Murder, She Wrote mystery (after The Murder of Twelve) finds writer-sleuth Jessica Fletcher reluctantly agreeing to play Mrs. Claus in the Cabot Cove, Maine, annual Christmas parade, and glad the renovation of her lovely old house is coming to an end.”
–Publishers Weekly
Rita Mae Brown, Out of Hounds
(Ballantine)
“Animal lovers and those curious about the elite world of fox hunting will be rewarded.”
–Publishers Weekly
Alexander McCall Smith, How to Raise an Elephant
(Pantheon)
“In Smith’s leisurely 21st No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novel (after 2019’s To the Land of Long Lost Friends), Blessing Mompati, a distant cousin of Precious Ramotse, the agency’s head, needs money to pay for a hip replacement for her friend Tefo Kgomo.”
–Publishers Weekly
Catriona McPherson, The Turning Tide
(Quercus)
“McPherson does a masterly job capturing the feel of rural Scotland and the mores of pre-WWII Britain. Readers will hope Dandy has a long career.”
–Publishers Weekly
David Hagberg, McGarvey
(Forge)
“Hagberg edges out Tom Clancy for commander of our uniquely American, military based thrillers and espionage novels: high-concept plot, non-stop action, insider knowledge of how things work out there in our complicated, high-combat world.”
–James Grady
Darcy Wild, A Lady Compromised
(Kensington)
“Lovers of Regency mysteries and smart female sleuths will be eager for more.”
–Publishers Weekly
