The weather outside is frightful, but a book is always delightful. Escape into historical suspense or a globe-trotting thriller!
The Bishop's Pawn, by Steve Berry. Berry's Cotton Malone series has steadily been growing in popularity. Now, readers get to see a bit more about Malone's past; The Bishop's Pawn is the story of his first case. Eighteen years ago, Malone was a young Navy lawyer, trying hard not to live up to his growing reputation as a maverick. When a high-level Justice Department lawyer pulls him in on an investigation, he jumps at the chance. But he soon discovers that two opposing forces, the Justice Department and the FBI, are at war over a cache of secret files concerning the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Malone's decision to see it through to the end changes not only his own life, but the course of history. Berry mines history, and every new novel is gold.
The Disappeared, by C.J. Box. Wyoming's new governor isn't sure what to make of game warden Joe Pickett, but he has a job for Pickett that's extremely delicate. A prominent British executive never came home from the high-end ranch she was visiting, and now the British Embassy is pressing hard for answers. Pickett knows that sometimes "ranch romances" happen and guests stay on past their anticipated check-outs. But there's no sign of the woman, which he finds worrisome. Add a second case tangling with the feds, and Pickett has his hands full.
The Rising Sea, by Clive Cussler & Graham Brown. The latest in Cussler's long-running NUMA Files series (following 2017's Nighthawk) finds the world in peril from an alarmingly rapid rise in sea levels--much higher than would even be accounted for by glacier melt. The NUMA scientific team search the globe for an answer, which they find at the bottom of the East China Sea. And the truth is so much worse than what they had feared...
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