A new family saga from a Minnesota author
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The Thread's Must-Read | 'The Searcher' by Tana French; 'Trouble Is What I Do' by Walter Mosley; 'Grown' by Tiffany D. Jackson; Buy these books
It’s one thing to read about the details of a murder investigation gone cold or a confidence man willing to kill to keep the con when the summer sun is bountiful and the shadows are at bay.
But fall — with its chill and lingering darkness — is perhaps the best season for mysteries and thrills.
So, if you love this genre, here are three novels soon to be published that you shouldn’t miss:
Tana French, the Vermont -born queen of Irish crime fiction, is out with a new novel called “The Searcher.” Unlike many of her books that are set within the Dublin police department, this is a stand-alone novel with an American-born former cop who ends up in western Ireland.
It is also, French says, less introspective than her last blockbuster, “The Witch Elm” because, as French told Entertainment Weekly, “I need to write someone who does not have his head stuck up his bum!”
The Searcher comes out in mid-October.
Walter Mosley is hanging out with Leonid McGill in his private eye shop again as a 92 yer old Mississippi bluesman asks the boxer-turned-investigator to help him deliver a letter that will turn its recipient’s world upside down.
This is a slim novel, perfect for a rainy Saturday afternoon, but Mosley packs each spare paragraph of “Trouble Is What I Do” with a punch.
And, last, here’s a young adult mystery you and your young reader will love. Tiffany D. Jackson’s “Grown” investigates what happens when a 17-year-old girl with singing talent and ambition is drawn into an adult relationship with a 28-year-old star, who isolates and then controls her. It publishes on Sept. 15.
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Trump's former press secretary is not about settling scores. Her book is an unabashed homage to the president and a feathering of her nest for a probable run for governor of Arkansas. | |
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