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This cover image released by Putnam shows "Battle Mountain" by C.J. Box. (Putnam via AP)
Book Review: Terrorists gather in C.J. Box’s new Joe Pickett novel, ‘Battle Mountain’
A lot happens in “Battle Mountain,” the 25th novel in C.J. Box’s series featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. The governor’s son-in-law has gone missing in the wilderness.
 
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Book Review: A private eye searches for his missing father while protecting a runaway wife
In “Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right,” Walter Mosley’s third novel featuring Joe King Oliver, the New York City private eye has two problems to solve.
 
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Book Review: Hunted by the FBI and Russian Oligarch, a hedge fund manager flees into the wilderness
When hedge fund manager Paul Brightman fell in love with a beautiful photographer named Tatanya, he had no idea that her father was a Russian oligarch. Five years later, Paul is on the run.
 
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Book Review: Robert Crais spins the tale of a hardboiled private eye who uncovers a conspiracy
Traci Beller was 13 when her daddy went to work and never came home. Police concluded that he’d simply abandoned his family, but Traci never believed it. Ten years later, she hires Los Angeles private detective Elvis Cole to look into the cold case.
 
Book Review: A young Walt Longmire battles animal and human predators on Alaska’s North Slope
In 1970, after fighting in Vietnam, young Walt Longmire took a job working security for an oil company in Alaska.
 
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Book Review: Cop cold case unit pursues a rapist, foils a terrorist plot and tackles a 1947 murder
The LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit pursues the two-decades-old Pillowcase Rapist case and tackles the legendary Black Dahlia murder in “The Waiting,” the new Ballard and Bosch thriller by Michael Connelly.
 
This cover image released by Minotaur shows "Death at the Sanatorium" by Ragnar Jonasson. (Minotaur via AP)
Book Review: Ragnar Jonasson channels Agatha Christie in his latest puzzle mystery
Icelandic author Ragnar Jonasson loves Agatha Christie’s mysteries, so it’s no surprise that his latest, “Death at the Sanitorium,” contains the intricate plotting and startling twists Christie was known for.
 
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Book Review: A retired small-town cop searches for missing girls in William Kent Krueger’s mystery
William Kent Krueger returns to his favorite themes, the mistreatment of Native Americans and the rape of the natural world for profit, in his new mystery, “Spirit Crossing.”
 
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Book Review: Is the brilliant surgeon a ‘Good Sociopath?’ Chicago P.I. Annalisa Vega has her doubts
Professor Maura Delaney’s soon-to-be-published book, “The Good Sociopath,” has a brilliant neurosurgeon as her primary example of the phenomenon.
 
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Book Review: East Texas P.I. turns vigilante in funny and savage ‘Sugar on the Bones’
Minnie Polson was in trouble, but when she met with private eye Hap Collins, she didn’t like his wise-cracking attitude. After they part company, she is murdered. Feeling guilty about not taking the case, Hap investigates.
 
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Book Review: An unarmed game warden tracks a killer through the Maine wilderness in ‘Pitch Dark’
Heavy rain storms have made much of the Northern Maine wilderness impassable, but Maine game warden Mike Bowditch has a murderer to catch.
 
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Book Review: Carol LaHines’ chilling novel chronicles a jilted woman’s descent into madness
Olivia, a literature professor whose field of study is Dante, was madly in love with her husband, Andy. But five years after they married, she caught him cheating with a woman named Amber.
 
This cover image released by Mulholland shows "Farewell, Amethystine" by Walter Mosley. (Mulholland via AP)
Book Review: In ‘Farewell Amethystine,’ a private eye hunts for a beautiful woman’s ex-husband
In “Farewell Amethystine,” the 16th novel in Walter Mosely’s series featuring Los Angeles private detective Easy Rawlins, a beautiful woman hires him to look for her missing ex-husband.
 
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Book Review: A dark secret exposed about a World War II internment camp in ‘First Frost’
In 1964, Walt Longmire’s football career at Southern Cal ended, so he enlisted in the Marines. On his way to boot camp, his truck broke down near the desert town of Bone Valley, Arizona. Unfriendly locals warned him to get out or else.
 
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Book Review: ‘Nothing But the Bones’ is a compelling noir novel at a breakneck pace
“Nothing But the Bones,” a prequel to Brian Panowich’s critically acclaimed Bull Mountain series of Southern noir novels, finds Nails McKenna on the run after killing a man in a barroom brawl.
 
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Book Review: ‘City of Ruins’ completes a masterful Don Winslow trilogy
As “City in Ruins” opens, former mobster Danny Ryan is a silent partner in two Las Vegas casinos. He is fabulously rich but wants more. Why? Because money is power, power is safety, “and you can never be safe enough. Not in this world.”
 
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Book Review: ‘The Hunter’ is a dark and lyrical tale of revenge, friendship and loyalty in collision
Trey Reddy, a teenage girl in a remote Irish village, blames her neighbors for the unsolved murder of her brother. She also despises her father for abandoning her.
 
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Book Review: Thomas Mullen’s portrayal of a divided nation in 1943 draws parallels to today
In 1943, as American soldiers confront a German Army in North Africa, the city of Boston is rife with antisemitic rumors, and support for the war is not universal. Journalist Anne Lemire tries to debunk the rumors.
 
This cover image released by Mulholland shows "Owning Up" by George Pelecanos. (Mulholland Books via AP)
Book Review: George Pelecanos’ ‘Owning Up’ has elegant prose and well-drawn characters
George Pelecanos has produced fine crime novels about Washington, D.C., and written for critically-acclaimed television shows including “The Wire.”
 
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Book Review: San Diego private eye tangles with FBI and Russian mob in fast-paced ‘Odyssey’s End’
In “Odyssey’s End,” the 10th novel in Matt Coyle’s series featuring private eye Rick Cahill, Rick’s wife tires of his perilous life and moves out with their baby daughter.
 
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Book Review: A private eye’s death sets a Chicago cop on a hairy investigation in ‘Dead and Gone’
When an ex-cop-turned-private detective is found hanged from a tree, Chicago PD Detective Annalisa Vega figures his death must be related to one of three cases he had been investigating.
 
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Book Review: A fast-paced, tension-laden plot at heart of Reed Farrel Coleman’s ‘Sleepless City’
In “Sleepless City,” award-winning crime novelist Reed Farrel Coleman introduces Nick Ryan, a New York City cop turned fixer for the metropolis’s power elite.
 
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Book Review: A severed arm found in a lake leads to a twist-filled murder case by Paul Doiron
Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch’s lakefront engagement party to his longtime girlfriend is interrupted by the thunk of a boat colliding with something in the water.
 
Review: Paul Doiron cranks up a suspenseful, fast-paced plot
The discovery of a badge belonging to a Maine game warden who vanished 15 years ago sends retired warden Charlie Stevens on a quest to solve the missing man’s fate.
 
Review: `Long Range’ is filled with twists and red herrings
In a review of “Long Range,” the 20th book in C.J. Box’s hard-boiled crime series featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett, Bruce DeSilva writes that the main plot, along with several subplots, is filled with so many twists and red herrings that readers are kept in suspense almost to the novel’s en
 
Review: Jeff Lindsay has entertaining new thriller
“Just Watch Me,” Dutton, by Jeff Lindsay

Riley Wolfe gets his kicks executing spectacular robberies that no one else would even contemplate.
 
‘Good Man Gone Bad’ is dark, brooding tale
“Good Man Gone Bad: An Aaron Gunner Mystery,” Prospect Park Books, by Gar Anthony Haywood

In “Good Man Gone Bad,” he simultaneously tackles two investigations. The first is helping his new love interest, defense attorney Kelley DeCharme, defend an Afghanistan war veteran who’s in prison for a murder he may not have committed. The second is more personal: an apparent murder-suicide that t
 
‘The Cold Way Home’ is a heartbreaking blues song of a novel
“The Cold Way Home: a Novel” (Minotaur Books), by Julia Keller

An Acker’s Gap policeman winds his way through his wreck of a town where people are either struggling to survive or surrendering to “a black wave” of fentanyl-spiked heroin. Inside the grimy Burger Boss restaurant, he finds a pair of EMTs trying to revive a woman who has overdosed on the toilet.
 
T. Jefferson Parker tells latest tale in tight, vivid prose
“The Last Good Guy: a Novel” (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) by T. Jefferson Parker

In the former Marine’s seven-year career as a Southern California private eye, he’s never failed to locate someone he was hired to find. But in “The Last Good Guy,” the third book in veteran crime novelist T. Jefferson Parker’s Roland Ford series, tracking down Daley will prove to be no easy task.
 
Review: Plot unfolds at rapid pace in ‘The Bitterroots’
After losing her job as a North Dakota sheriff following a tumultuous serial killer investigation in “Paradise Valley,” Cassie Dewell resurfaces as a struggling Montana private detective in C.J. Box’s new crime novel, “The Bitterroots.”
 
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