Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Five new detective fiction classics

At The Barnes & Noble Book Blog Melissa Albert tagged five of the best recent detective fiction classics, including:
The Silkworm, by Robert Galbraith

The last time we saw veteran and private eye Cormoran Strike, he was dodging flashbulbs after debunking a model’s suspicious suicide in The Cuckoo’s Calling. Now he’s investigating a seedy seam of London publishing, after a writer’s latest manuscript, a vicious roman à clef, leads to his macabre murder. J.K. Rowling’s second turn under pseudonym Galbraith is just as satisfying as her first.
Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue