Detectives, P.I.’s and true crime, oh my!
THE KILL by Jane Casey
“The Maeve Kerrigan mysteries seem to get better each time out, and this fifth complex police procedural has an emotional resonance that makes it the best yet. Recommend this series to Ian Rankin fans and to those who follow Prime Suspect creator Lynda La Plante’s Anna Travis novels.” — Booklist, starred review
HELL’S GATE by Richard Crompton
Crompton’s “outstanding”* second Detective Mollel novel (after HOUR OF THE RED GOD) finds the ex-warrior banished from Kenya’s busiest city to a police force not interested in strangers. “Crompton effectively integrates Maasai culture into the absorbing plot.” — *Publishers Weekly, starred review
THE EVIDENCE ROOM by Cameron Harvey
A SIBA Okra Pick! Set in Florida’s swampy Cooper Bayou, this debut cold-case procedural focuses on a girl’s homecoming, twenty years after a crime broke her world. “…Harvey deserves watching.” — Booklist
90 CHURCH: Inside America’s Notorious First Narcotics Squad by Dean Unkefer
Mad Men meets The Wire in this gripping true-crime memoir by a former agent at the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in 1960s New York. “The book has the same feel as Peter Maas’ SERPICO and Robert Daley’s PRINCE OF THE CITY, both nonfiction accounts (later turned into popular films) of cops who struggled to keep their moral and ethical equilibriums. For anyone interested in true crime from the cop’s point of view.” — Booklist
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #15 by David Housewright
In the “arresting” (Publishers Weekly) 12th hard-boiled mystery featuring unlicensed P.I. Rushmore McKenzie, a woman thrown from a moving truck wakes up with amnesia. “A strong addition to an always-reliable series.” — Booklist
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