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This week, J. Kingston Pierce chooses Motor City Shakedown by D.E. Johnson. “While pursuing revenge in 1911 against the killers of a friend — and also struggling to kick a morphine habit — Detroit auto company heir Will Anderson and his former…
This week, J. Kingston Pierce’s pick is Temporary Perfections by Gianrico Carofiglio. “Italian attorney Guido Guerrieri must exercise his detective talents in order to reinvigorate the months-old case of Manuela Ferraro, who went missing from a beach resort. As he digs into…
This week, J. Kingston Pierce chooses Damage Control by Denise Hamilton. “Public relations exec Maggie Silver tries to protect U.S. Senator Henry Paxton of California from a crippling scandal,” Pierce explains, “following the death of a female aide. At the same time,…
This week, J. Kingston Pierce chooses Laura Lippman’s latest, The Most Dangerous Thing. Says Pierce, “Skipping back and forth through time, this tale relates the experiences of a once-inseparable group of childhood friends who, after years of separation, are thrust back together…
This week, J. Kingston Pierce chooses Bye Bye, Baby by Road to Perdition author Max Allan Collins. Says Pierce, “Back for the first time since Chicago Confidential (2002), P.I. Nate Heller is in Hollywood in 1962, helping Marilyn Monroe with a contract…
This week, our man Pierce chooses Cambridge academic Susanna Gregory’s latest novel to feature 14th century teach-investigator Matthew Bartholomew. In Murder in the Minster, Pierce writes, Bartholomew “travels from the college of Michaelhouse, in Cambridge, to help claim a much-needed legacy from…
This week J. Kingston Pierce chooses a new work by Swedish veteran crime fictionist, Kjell Eriksson. Says Pierce: Police detective Ann Lindell is already tackling the mystery of a severed female foot found in an area of Uppsala, Sweden, that’s dominated by…
J. Kingston Pierce gives this week’s nod to Shamus Award-winning author Peter Spiegelman. Says Pierce: Intrigue and paranoia marble this thriller about an ex-CIA agent, Carr, who’s planning to rob a former hedge fund manager now working as a money man for…
This week Yrsa Sigurdardottir, noted Icelandic author of crime and children’s fiction, catches J. Kingston Pierce’s eye. The Rap Sheet editor says: Small-time Icelandic attorney Thóra Gudmundsdóttir (last seen in 2009’s My Soul to Take) is hired to investigate the vanishing of…
This week, crime fiction and Rap Sheet editor J. Kingston Pierce smiles at Misterioso by Swedish crime fictionist Arne Dahl. Says Pierce: Allocated to a special national task force, Stockholm police detective Paul Hjelm hunts for a murderer who’s targeting prestigious businesspeople,…