Rezensionen: Hilary Mantel, Don Winslow u. a.
Summer reading used to be so easy. No vampires. No handcuffs. Deshalb stellt Janet Maslin in der New York Times fluffige Sommerbücher vor – darunter: Hilary Mantel: “Bring Up the Bodies” und Don...
View ArticleRezension: Gillian Flynn: “Gone Girl”
Gillian Flynn’s ice-pick-sharp “Gone Girl” begins far too innocently by explaining how Nick and Amy Dunne celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary. Amy started making crepes, while humming the theme...
View ArticleRezension: Alan Furst: “Mission to Paris”
Paris on the brink. World War II looming. A place of culinary, erotic, conversational, sartorial and so many other pleasures. A place of elegance and discretion. The aromas of “a thousand years of rain...
View ArticleRezension: Norb Vonnegut: “The Trust”
Vonnegut is the seriously underappreciated author of three glittery thrillers about fiscal malfeasance. This may not sound like a red-hot franchise, but he has made it one. With now “The Trust,” he is...
View ArticleRezension: Tana French: “Broken Harbor”
What a pretty picture: an Irish seaside community of 250 new houses built for lucky, happy families. In the evenings the aroma of home cooking fills the air. Commuters return from work. Gleaming cars...
View ArticleRezension: Laura Lippman: “And When She Was Good”
“And When She Was Good,” with its title reminiscent of a spooky, overlooked 1967 gem from the Philip Roth archive (“When She Was Good”), goes on to explain how a woman escaped from home.
View ArticleRezensionen: Ben Macintyre, Stephan Talty
Pick your poison: “Double Cross” thrives on excess background information and minutiae (one of Mr. Macintyre’s main figures, Lily Sergeyev, had kidney stones), while Mr. Talty favors glib storytelling...
View ArticleRezension: Benjamin Black: “Vengeance”
When John Banville inaugurated his pseudonymous series of Benjamin Black books in 2007 with “Christine Falls,” this esteemed author seemed to have taken an iffy turn. The Banville name would be...
View ArticleRezension: Dustin Thomason: “12.21″
Dustin Thomason begins “12.21” with a prologue in which a mysterious ancient figure pricks his arm, draws blood and then begins writing what may become “the most valuable artifact in the history of...
View ArticleRezension: Chase Novak: “Breed”
Above and beyond its fatality count “Breed” has originality on its side; the ending is a true shocker. The book sets out to convey what it is like to be “subject to the whip and rattle of unspeakable...
View ArticleRezension: Mark Owen: “No Easy Day”
“No Easy Day” Tells of the SEAL Raid on Bin Laden: The bin Laden story is the marquee event in “No Easy Day,” of course, but the book is not on spilling secrets, it is on explaining a SEAL’s rigorous...
View ArticleRezension: Lee Child: “A Wanted Man”
“A Wanted Man” is more ingenious than other Reacher books have been about the underground activities Reacher is thwarting. Mr. Child’s endings would be even better if his books’ worst bad guys were...
View ArticleRezension: Damien Echols: “Life After Death”
Eighteen and a half years after he was sentenced to death for participating in the murders of three 8-year-old boys in Arkansas, Damien Echols finds himself in Faireyland. Mr. Echols’s new book, “Life...
View ArticleRezension: Dennis Lehane: “Live by Night”
“Live by Night” is Crime Noir 101, as taught by the best of its current practitioners. “Some years later, on a tugboat in the Gulf of Mexico, Joe Coughlin’s feet were placed in a tub of cement,” Dennis...
View ArticleRezension: John Grisham: “The Racketeer”
“The Racketeer” is an unusual book for Mr. Grisham. Unlike many of his others, it has no soapbox to stand on and is not out to teach lessons about justice. This book is much more duplicitous than that.
View ArticleRezension: Michael Connelly: “The Black Box”
Harry Bosch of the Los Angeles Police Department has a birthday during the course of “The Black Box”. But as Michael Connelly’s readers well know, Harry’s not a party guy. He is not much of a...
View ArticleRezension: Kate Atkinson: “Life after Life”
In the midst of a love affair, Ursula Todd discovers that she is an excellent liar. The same can be said admiringly of Atkinson. “Life After Life” is a big book that defies logic, chronology and even...
View ArticleRezension: Charles Graeber: “The Good Nurse”
In 2003, the world discovered what a night nurse named Charles Cullen had been doing during the preceding 16 years. He had killed a judge, a priest and an unknown but large number of other people. He...
View ArticleRezensionen: Dan Brown: “Inferno” II
Dan Browns neuer Roman “Inferno” ist erschienen, Besprechungen dazu gibt es unter anderem von Jake Kerridge im Telegraph, von Steven Poole im Guardian oder in der New York Times von Janet Maslin, in...
View ArticleKurzrezensionen: King, Kwan, Hiaasen, Sullivan, Lee u. a.
Riding Waves of Thrills, Chills and Carats — Janet Maslin advises beach reads from Stephen King, Kevin Kwan, Carl Hiaasen, J. Courtney Sullivan, Rebecca Lee, Wilton Barnhardt, Joe Hill and more.
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