Well, here’s what’s happening in my reading life right now. For the last few years, I’ve moderated the Crime Fiction/Mystery panel for Library Journal‘s Day of Dialog. I have to read the books, and have questions to the authors by Friday, I’m reading for this. I’m not reading books that are due out this week.
So, while I’m reading this week, I”m going to tease you with the five forthcoming books. These authors will all be on the panel. I hope one or two of these books catches your attention. Think of your TBR piles!
Flesh and Blood, David Mark’s eleventh DS McAvoy crime novel is due out June 6. This one is definitely not for the squeamish. It’s a gritty crime novel with two police as targets, McAvoy and his boss.
DS Aector McAvoy is on a well-deserved family holiday when the news reaches him that he’s been attacked and left for dead on one of Hull’s most well-to-do streets.
It comes as something of a shock. But not as much as the discovery of who’s really been attacked – and his growing realization it’s no coincidence he’s far from home, in an isolated, rural campsite, on today of all days.
McAvoy’s superior officer – and best friend – DS Trish Pharaoh has been keeping secrets. Secrets that are catching up with her.
Secrets that could kill them all . . .
Police procedural. If you’re interested now in a gritty series set in Hull, England, start with the first in the series, The Dark Winter. The 2012 novel was a finalist for the 2013 Barry Award for Best First Novel.
Oh Lesa you make my imagined TBR stack wobble with book eleven in a series. I’m torn between “hmm, maybe a possibility, might be good” and then thinking I must be delusional to want to add eleven more books!
But Thanks, I’m here for all those possibilities.
Oh, good, MM. I have to say that one was very violent. I’m reading the next one in my stack today. Check it out tomorrow, please. This series only has four books. Not as intimidating!
Mark’s McAvoy series is one that has been on my radar for years, but every time there is something else that comes first and I still have not even read the first one. I really do want to.
Oh, I get it, Jeff. I can’t tell you how many of those series I have that I want to start!