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If you’re looking for Pierce’s Picks, from now on, you’ll find it on the nearby Rap Sheet, edited by Pierce himself. While you’re at The Rap Sheet, you’ll see some very sad news: Reginald Hill, creator of the Yorkshire-based detective team of…
This week, J. Kingston Pierce chooses Agent 6 by Tom Rob Smith: Former Moscow secret policeman Leo Demidov’s wife and two daughters travel to New York City in 1950 as part of a “peace tour,” only to be implicated in the killing…
Speaking of crime, this week, J. Kingston Pierce chooses The Silver Stain by Paul Johnson: Half-Greek, half-Scots gumshoe Alex Mavros (The Golden Silence, 2004) gets involved with a film being made about the 1941 German invasion of Crete. When one of the…
This week, J. Kingston Pierce chooses Dark Men by Derek Haas: Contract killer Columbus (The Silver Bear) has retired with his lover to an Italian village. But he keeps up his tracking skills, just in case — which is how he discovers…
This week, J. Kingston Pierce chooses The Boy Who Shoots Crows by Randall Silvis. Pierce writes: Silvis (Disquiet Heart, 2002) introduces us into the search for a Pennsylvania boy who went missing while hunting crows. Charlotte Dunleavy, a recent escapee from Manhattan,…
This week, J. Kingston Pierce chooses Utu by Caryl Férey. Set in New Zealand, Utu follows Paul Osborne, who’s called back to the Auckland police force from a bender in Sydney to take over an investigation by Jack Fitzgerald, an ex-colleague who…
This week, J. Kingston Pierce chooses The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis. “After helping an estranged friend retrieve luggage from the Copenhagen train station, only to discover a naked child in the suitcase, Nina Borg is drawn…
This week, J. Kingston Pierce chooses Prague Fatale by Philip Kerr. No sooner has German homicide cop Bernie Gunther returned to a beleaguered Berlin in 1941, than he’s called away again — this time to Prague, where a gathering of Nazi officials…
This week, J. Kingston Pierce chooses Troubled Bones by Jeri Westerson. “Disgraced knight-turned-sleuth Crispin Guest takes on a job for the Archbishop of Canterbury: figure out who’s behind threats to the displayed bones of martyr Thomas à Becket. But he’s distracted from…
This week, J. Kingston Pierce chooses The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin. “Detective Inspector Malcolm Fox and his Internal Affairs investigators are back (after The Complaints, 2009), this time looking into misconduct charges against a fellow policeman. But that simple case soon…