Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Reading Ahead: October 2017, part 2

The past comes a-haunting next month!

Deep Freeze, by John Sandford. Sandford's latest features Virgil Flowers (last seen in Escape Clause, 2016) in tale of traumas, bad blood, and long-held grudges. He's called to Trippton, Minnesota to investigate a murder: a woman has been found frozen in a solid block of ice. Evidence suggests that the murder may be connected to a high school class whose twenty-year reunion is coming up. It's true what they say: high school is murder.

Act of Betrayal, by Matthew Dunn. Former intelligence operative Will Cochrane (The Spy House, etc.) comes out of hiding to expose a conspiracy involving a past assassination, a conspiracy that reaches into the upper echelons of the United States government. Cochrane has gone underground to evade both his enemies and the feds, but his loyalty to old colleagues pulls him into a search for truth after one of his old contacts goes missing, and then a second is murdered. Fans of spy thrillers really should be reading Dunn's series.

Mind Game, by Iris Johansen. A new stand-alone thriller from the bestselling author of the Eve Duncan series (Night and Day, etc.), Mind Game introduces readers to Jane MacGuire. Jane has spent years scouring the Scottish highlands for a treasure. But even as her search intensifies, so too do her haunting dreams of a young girl in danger. What does it all mean? A surprise appearance from another Johansen character may help Jane make sense of it all. Fans should make sure to pick this up.

Quick & Dirty, by Stuart Woods. Stone Barrington finds himself ensnared in the intricate art business in Woods' latest. Beneath the veneer of refinement in New York luxury penthouses and grand Hamptons estates lurks a game of grifters and con-men, all of them looking to get in on the action. Barrington will have to use all of his skills to keep from ruffling the wrong feathers, because when money and reputation are on the line, the stakes are worth killing for...

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