by vjbooks | Jan 10, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Oct. 13) At the start of Stone’s chilling second thriller, set in the early 1980s and the prequel to Mr. Clarinet (2007), Det. Sgt. Max Mingus and his black partner, Det. Joe Liston, think a decomposed body discovered in a primate park...
by vjbooks | Jan 6, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(popwatch.ew.com, Dec. 1, Tina Jordan) It’s time for another installment of our regular PopWatch feature, “Starting Lines.” If this is your first time at the rodeo, fret not, for the game is a simple one. We bring you the opening sentences of three...
by vjbooks | Jan 4, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Miami 1981. When Detective Max Mingus and his partner Joe are called to the scene of a death at Miami’s Primate Park, it looks like another routine investigation…. until two things turn up: the victim’s family, slaughtered; and a partly digested...
by vjbooks | Dec 31, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
Nick Stone was born on Halloween 1966 in Cambridge, England. He first thriller, ‘Mr Clarinet’ became a critical and commercial success in the UK and the United States. Stone’s second novel, King of Swords – a prequel to Mr. Clarinet, set in...
by vjbooks | Dec 20, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(catholic.org, Dec. 17) Sun Sentinel (MCT) – In “The Finder,” Colin Harrison combines a strong eye for social details and the intricacies of New York City for a novel that is equally literary fiction and mystery. A scheme in which office cleaners...
