Portrait of an Unknown Woman is the 22nd installment in Daniel Silva’s long-running series of spy novels featuring Gabriel Allon. It is set sometime in the present, taking place after the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021, an event which … Continue reading Portrait of an Unknown Woman | Book Review
A Death in Jerusalem is Jonathan Dunsky’s seventh novel featuring Adam Lapid. It opens in January 1952 in Jerusalem, when Lapid marches on the Knesset to protest a proposed law allowing Israel to negotiate directly with West German about Holocaust … Continue reading A Death in Jerusalem | Book Review
The Dark Hours is Michael Connelly’s 36th novel, the fourth featuring LAPD late-shift detective, Renée Ballard. In it, Ballard investigates two crimes with the help of Harry Bosch, former LAPD homicide detective, now private investigator. The first crime involves a … Continue reading The Dark Hours | Book Review
Dolphin Junction is a collection of eleven short stories by Mick Herron. Most of the stories were first published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. All of them center around mysteries, ranging from blackmail (“Proof of Love,” “What We Do”) to … Continue reading Dolphin Junction | Book Review
Daughter of the Morning Star is the 17th installment in Craig Johnson’s long-running series of novels featuring Walt Longmire. Longmire is sheriff of (fictional) Absaroka County, Wyoming. In this story, Longmire is on the hunt for the person sending threatening … Continue reading Daughter of the Morning Star | Book Review
Silesian Station is the second installment in David Downing’s series of novels featuring Anglo-American journalist John Russell. It is set primarily in Berlin in the summer of 1939, just before the Nazi invasion of Poland, although Russell travels to other … Continue reading Silesian Station | Book Review
Woe to the Scribes and Pharisees is the third installment in Daniel Taylor’s series of mysteries featuring Jon Mote, erstwhile Ph.D. student and special-needs adult caregiver, now book editor for Luxor House, a subsidiary of Continental Media, itself a small … Continue reading Woe to the Scribes and Pharisees | Book Review
A Deadly Act begins with a famous Israel actress, permanently disabled by a car accident, revealing who murdered a colleague five years earlier. At least she thinks she knows. She doesn’t have proof, however—only circumstantial evidence and a woman’s intuition. … Continue reading A Deadly Act | Book Review
A little after midnight on Saturday, March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 departed Kuala Lumpur International Airport for its six-hour flight to Beijing Capital International Airport. It made its last contact with Malaysian air traffic control 38 minutes after takeoff, then dropped off ATC radar. It was tracked by Malaysian military radar for another hour before flying out of Malaysian-monitored airspace. The plane’s satellite communication system continued to make hourly “handshakes” with an Inmarsat satellite until 8:19 a.m. The plane has not been seen or heard from since, its 227 passengers and 12 crew presumed dead. International authorities eventually … Continue reading The Taking of MH370 | Book Review
Hilda Lipkind is an unlucky woman. Seven months pregnant–after three miscarriages–she is worried that her husband David is cheating on her. So, she hires Adam Lapid to track down David’s paramour. The truth, however, is more complex and results in tragedy. The Unlucky Woman is a short story, not a novel, and a quick read. While I am a fan of the Adam Lapid mysteries, set in post-Independence Tel Aviv, I didn’t enjoy this story as much as I enjoyed the previous novels, hence the three-star rating. Book Reviewed Jonathan Dunsky, The Unlucky Woman: An Adam Lapid Short Story (Self-published, 2018). … Continue reading The Unlucky Woman | Book Review
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