Tom Corcoran
Content by Tom Corcoran
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The season for beaches and hammocks has inspired a sizzling quartet of new mysteries.
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In 1997, Lee Child's Killing Floor won two Best First Mystery awards. Child's third Jack Reacher mystery, Tripwire, maintains his quality and accelerates his thriller-style plotting.After a career in military police investigation, Jack Reacher opted for a lifestyle removed from the Army's constant-boss, constant-schedule routine. He began wandering the country, living a Teflon life with no paper trail, no credit cards. Tripwire finds him in laid-back Key West, digging swimming pools by day, moonlighting as a bouncer in a nude dance club.
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The best mysteries, these days, go beyond mind puzzles and character studies to remote, unique locales and to a spectrum of lifestyles.
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The sequencing of the Stephanie Plum series, by Janet Evanovich, is self-evident from its titles but not mandatory.
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Good novels provide settings that are more than ancillary. Distinctive locales become added characters.
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Those who know Jim Harrison's fiction, poetry, and essays discuss the work with awe; those unfamiliar with his name light up when informed that he wrote the novella basis for the film Legends of th
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Carol O'Connell's sixth New York-based Kathleen Mallory mystery Shell Game is not the simple illusion its title suggests.
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Stone Quarry by S. J. Rozan extends an award-winning series with plot and personal repercussions from last year's A Bitter Feast.
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Shooting at Midnight by Greg Rucka begins not with the author's compelling character Atticus Kodiak, but with the bodyguard's sometime lover, Bridgett Logan.
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Veteran NYPD detectives Joe Gregory and Anthony Ryan make their fourth appearance in Edward Dee's Nightbird.
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In The Twisted Root by Anne Perry agent of enquiry William Monk is asked by Lucius Stourbridge to help locate his missing fiance, the widow, Mrs. Miriam Gardiner.
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The flood of new mysteries in recent years presents a continuing problem that begs us not to complain: so many tales, so little time.
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Anyone who's observed Jimmy Buffett's music career and heard his song lyrics knows that his main product is carefree optimism. But Jimmy has a little secret: he's been a workaholic for 30 years.
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