By Matthew Pearl Random House, $26.00, 496 pages Boston is under siege. Boats in the harbor have crashed into each other, leaving the wharf in shambles, and glass has melted from the windows in the business district. The country is just …
By Owen Laukkanen G. P. Putnam’s Sons, $25.95, 384 pages If you like thrillers, The Professionals is a definite must-read. In Laukkanen’s debut, he brings us into the fold of four college friends. The economy has tanked, and since the four aren’t …
By James Sallis Poisoned Pen Press, $19.95, 148 pages Drive, the 2005 neo-noir-revenge-vendetta classic, was made into a 2011 movie with Hollywood hunk Ryan Gosling. Sallis didn’t write the screenplay. The film had many changes, not all bad, but that’s the …
By Phillip Margolin Harper, $26.99, 352 pages Over here is a serial killer who breaks out of custody when about to be retried for crimes whose prosecution was tainted by connection with an identical case for which he was mistakenly convicted …
By Alan Glynn Picador, 16.00, 364 pages When out-of-work journalist Jimmy Gilroy agrees to write the biography of the B-list celebrity who died three years before in an accident, he didn’t realize he’d be dragged into a conspiracy spanning three continents. …
By Sam Christer Overlook, $24.95, 368 pages When a brilliant professor commits suicide, his estranged son wants to know why. But as Gideon Chase delves into the mysterious past of his father Nathaniel, he is nearly killed by a shadowy assailant, …
By Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Grand Central Publishing, $26.99, 358 pages ISBN 9780446554985 Before beginning this review, I should admit one prejudice: I love the character of Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast. To my mind, he’s a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, …
