Lifestyle › Books 3 new crime books to add to your reading list Our pick of the best crime books this month MARK SANDERSON |28 minutes ago | 0 comments 8 shares Click to follow ES Lifestyle 4 ES Lifestyle Newsletter Enter your email address or register with your social account Already have an account? Log in The Man Who Came Uptown by George Pelecanos 4 (Orion, £20), buy it here. Armed robber Michael Hudson is released from jail — or, in con-speak, goes uptown — earlier than expected thanks to Phil Ornazian, an Armenian lawyer. The street Hudson’s mother lives on in Washington DC has been gentrified while he’s been inside. This chimes with his desire for a fresh start. A prison librarian has turned him on to the joy of reading but before he can fill the bookshelf in his bedroom with Elmore Leonards, Ornazian asks for a favour in return. He needs him to drive a getaway car. Pelecanos, best known as a screenwriter on such series as The Wire and The Deuce, is first and foremost a novelist. If you haven’t read any of his work, this is an excellent place to start. The Cold Summer by Gianrico Carofiglio 4 (Bitter Lemon, £8.99), buy it here. Those who have read Carofiglio’s outstanding quintet featuring lawyer Guido Guerrieri will be familiar with “the incomprehensible violence of life”. The Cold Summer, the first in a new series of Italian jobs, introduces us to Pietro Fenoglio, a Carabinieri marshal in the Adriatic port of Bari. A 10-year-old boy is kidnapped and, thanks to an anonymous tip-off, is soon found dead at the bottom of a well. His father, who just happens to be a big shot in Puglian organised crime, promises to eat the heart of the man responsible. He suspects Vito Lopez, one of his disaffected deputies, who has gone Awol with a consignment of cocaine. When Lopez hears this he seeks refuge with the boys in blue by becoming a supergrass. The Reckoning by John Grisham Review_FICTION Review_FICTION All This I Will Give to You aftermath of the firing on Fort Sumter, year from Sicily to Italy’s Puglia region. In Dolores Redondo, trans. from the Spanish by but those interested in Civil War–era particular, Fenoglio investigates the case Michael Meigs. AmazonCrossing, $24.95 mysteries would be better served by Owen of Damiano Grimaldi, a son of Nicola (576p) ISBN 978-1-5039-0254-1 Parry’s Abel Jones series. Agent: Maura Grimaldi, the head of one of the warring When popular Madrid-based author Kye-Casella, Don Congdon Assoc. (Sept.) factions, who was kidnapped on his way to Manuel Ortigosa, the hero of this pow- school. Despite his parents paying a erful mystery from Spanish author ★ The Devil’s Wind: ransom, the boy’s body is discovered three Redondo (The Invisible Guardian), finds A Spider John Mystery days later down a well. Nicola vows out that his spouse, Álvaro Muñiz de Steve Goble. Seventh Street, $15.95 trade revenge on his enemy Vito Lopez, who Dávila, has been killed in a traffic accident paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-63388-484-7 immediately surrenders to the police. in Galicia, he travels to northwestern Goble’s excellent second historical fea- Lopez is debriefed, confessing to a whole Spain to get answers. But he soon realizes turing pirate Spider John Rush improves range of crimes, including murder, but that the man he loved for 15 years har- on its predecessor, 2017’s The Bloody Black swears that he didn’t take the child. In a bored more than a few secrets: first and Flag. In 1723, Spider John is lying low in number of long but fascinating interroga- foremost, that he was a wealthy marquis Port Royal, Jamaica, hoping to put his tion scenes, Fenoglio gets closer to the who was the head of one of Spain’s most pirate career behind him, until someone truth. This standalone is sure to win distinguished families. After meeting recognizes him Carofiglio, a former prosecutor who spe- with Álvaro’s tight-lipped family mem- in a crowd wit- cialized in organized crime, a wider U.S. bers, Manuel reconsiders his husband’s nessing the audience. (Sept.) alleged accidental death. With the help of hanging of a a recently retired police detective and one former ship- The Guilty Dead: of Álvaro’s childhood friends, Manuel mate; he barely A Monkeewrench Novel begins examining the family’s guarded escapes capture P. J . Tracy. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (336p) history—and uncovers unspeakable dark- before boarding ISBN 978-1-68331-858-3 ness. With the beautiful Galician coun- a merchant In Tracy’s busy ninth Monkeewrench tryside as backdrop, Redondo weaves an vessel bound for novel (after 2017’s Nothing Stays Buried), impressively intricate story line filled Boston, the the computer geeks of Grace MacBride’s with more than a few bombshell plot Redemption. That Monkeewrench software company join twists. This door stopper of a novel will one of the passengers is Sam Smoke, who forces with Minneapolis homicide detec- leave readers utterly satisfied. Agent: Anna previously sailed with Ned Low, a pirate tives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth. The Soler-Pont, Pontas Agency (Spain). (Sept.) even more vicious than Blackbeard, unset- death of Minnesota philanthropist tles John, and he finds himself in more Gregory Norwood just one year after the Murder in the Oval Library peril after a shooting death in a locked fatal overdose of his addict son, Trey C.M. Gleason. Kensington, $26 (304p) room, a tragedy that necessitates a visit to Norwood, looks like a suicide, until Leo ISBN 978-1-4967-1021-5 the ship from members of a Royal Navy and Gino uncover enough oddities to sug- Set in April 1861, Gleason’s lackluster frigate escorting the Redemption. Though gest murder. Meanwhile, a new anti- sequel to 2017’s Murder in the Lincoln the victim appears to have shot himself, terror program developed by White House finds the residents of John spots evidence to the contrary and Monkeewrench uncovers a terrorist plot Washington, D.C., bracing for what embarks on a search for the killer while to bomb city hall. That a lowlife named everyone fears will be a successful assault trying to remain at liberty. Goble adroitly Gus Riskin had a hand in Trey’s death is by Confederate troops on a city sorely in combines action and deduction. Agent: revealed in the prologue, but Tracy main- need of military reinforcements. As presi- Evan Marshall, Evan Marshall Agency. tains suspense by carefully concealing the dential aide Adam Speed Quinn works (Sept.) links that connect Riskin to Gregory’s with Kansas senator Jim Lane to buttress death and to the terrorist plot. The book’s the White House’s meager defenses, the The Cold Summer chief pleasure lies in watching the mem- president’s vulnerability to attack is Gianrico Carofiglio, trans. from the Italian by bers of MacBride’s oddball crew, shockingly underscored when someone Howard Curtis. Bitter Lemon, $14.95 trade including Harley Davidson and slits the throat of Johnny Thorne, a paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-912242-03-0 Roadrunner, match wits and skills with member of the Kansas Freedom Guard In the summer of 1992, two real-life the wise-cracking detectives. Agent: Ellen assigned to protect Lincoln, in the resi- anti-Mafia prosecutors and their compan- Geiger, Frances Goldin Literary Agency. (Sept.) dence’s library. Adam investigates, ions were assassinated in a pair of car assisted again by intrepid reporter Sophie bombings by the Sicilian Mafia, as Hitting the Books Gates. Their sleuthing is bolstered by an Carofiglio (The Silence of the Wave) notes in Jenn McKinlay. Berkley Prime Crime, $25 obvious clue, and despite the setup’s a brief introduction to this fine police pro- (304p) ISBN 978-0-451-49267-8 inherent drama, suspense is at a min- cedural. To the alarm of Marshal Pietro At the start of McKinlay’s delightful imum. Gleason succeeds in capturing the Fenoglio, a Carabinieri officer based in ninth Library Lover’s mystery (after tensions of the nation’s capital in the Bari, the Mafia wars have spread that same 2017’s Death in the Stacks), Lindsey Norris, WWW.PUBLISHERSWEEKLY.COM 51 Altro Crea blog Accedi Friday, 14 September 2018 Welcome to the blogspot for Shots Ezine BOOK REVIEW: THE COLD SUMMER, by Gianrico SHOTSMAG Ezine Carofiglio Blog Archive THE COLD SUMMER ▼ 2018 (157) by Gianrico Carofiglio ▼ September (11) Bier Lemon Press, £8.99 , Sept 13th 2018 What do you Write by Sara Gran Reviewer: Michael Jecks Wonder Valley and Skid Row by Ivy Pochoda BOOK REVIEW: THE COLD SUMMER, by Gianrico Carofigl... 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