Corridors of the Night, by Anne Perry. Twenty-first in Perry's highly popular William Monk mystery series, Corridors of the Night finds Monk, now commander of the Thames River Police, and his wife Hester doing battle with two scientists whose obsession with healing has turned to homicide. The monomaniacal Rand brothers—Magnus, a cunning doctor, and Hamilton, a
genius chemist—are ruthless in their pursuit of a cure for what was
then known as the fatal “white-blood disease.” In London’s Royal Naval
Hospital annex, Hester is tending one of the brothers’ dying
patients—wealthy Bryson Radnor—when she stumbles upon three weak,
terrified young children, and learns to her horror that they’ve been
secretly purchased and imprisoned by the Rands for experimental
purposes. But the Rand brothers are too close to a miracle
cure to allow their experiments to be exposed. Before Hester can reveal
the truth, she too becomes a prisoner. As Monk and his faithful
friends scour London’s grimy streets and the
beautiful English countryside searching for her, Hester’s time, as well
as the children’s, is quickly draining away. This long-running series always hits the best-sellers list for a reason.
Sixteen hundred
miles to the north in Seattle, J.P. Beaumont is at loose ends after the
Special Homicide Investigation Team, affectionately known as S.H.I.T.,
has been unexpectedly and completely disbanded. When Brandon discovers
that there are links between Lassiter’s case and an unsolved case in
Seattle, he comes to Beau for help. Those two cases suddenly
become hot when two young boys from the reservation, one of them with
close ties to the Walker family, go missing. Can two seasoned cops,
working together, decipher the missing pieces in time to keep them
alive?
Trigger Mortis, by Anthony Horowitz. Horowitz incorporates original, never-before-published material from 007 creator Ian Fleming as he returns James Bond to his 1950s heyday, with all the hallmarks of an original Fleming adventure and features welcome familiar faces, including M and Miss Moneypenny. Bond has just returned victorious from his showdown with Auric Goldfinger in Fort
Knox. By his side is the glamorous and streetwise Pussy Galore, who
played no small part in his success. As they settle down in London, the
odds of Galore taming the debonair bachelor seem slim—but she herself is
a creature not so easily caught.
Meanwhile, the struggle for superiority between the Soviet Union and the West is escalating. In an attempt to demonstrate Soviet strength, SMERSH plans to sabotage an international Grand Prix in the hot zone of West Germany. At the Nürburgring Racing Circuit, Bond must play a high-speed game of cat and mouse to stop them, but when he observes a secretive meeting between SMERSH's driver and a notorious Korean millionaire, it becomes clear that this is just the infamous organization's opening move. Horowitz has done remarkable things with Sherlock Holmes cannon in recent years (The House of Silk, Moriarty), so there's no reason to doubt he'd do the same with Bond.
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