Read on for some summer suspense:
COLLECTING THE DEAD by Spencer Kope
Two stars for this debut mystery starring Magnus “Steps” Craig, an FBI agent and tracker with the special ability to see people’s “shine”—particularly the one from a vicious serial killer. “Kope’s fascinating debut will place Steps Craig alongside Walt Longmire, Jack Reacher, and Charlie Parker as an enduring literary hero.” — Kirkus Reviews, starred review
FIRST STRIKE by Ben Coes
“Coes delivers another outstanding novel featuring Special Forces hero Dewey Andreas. Coes is one of those few authors who knows how to turn the world of black ops into compelling, realistic fiction, and he’s getting better and better.” — Booklist, starred review
WILLNOT by James Sallis
In the woods outside the town of Willnot, the remains of several people have suddenly been discovered, unnerving the community and unsettling Dr. Lamar Hale, the town’s all-purpose general practitioner, surgeon, and town conscience. “A profoundly moving, quietly eloquent jewel of a novel.” — Booklist, starred review
BURN WHAT WILL BURN by C.B. McKenzie
A noirish crime novel set in rural Arkansas about a man who discovers a body in a creek from award-winning author CB McKenzie. “Thematically very different than McKenzie’s outstanding first novel (BAD COUNTRY). But the prose is just as pure and the story just as riveting.” — Kirkus Reviews
THE CURSE OF TENTH GRAVE by Darynda Jones
In the 10th book in Jones’s Charley Davidson series, the part-time PI/full-time Grim Reaper must stop three gods hell-bent on killing her daughter.