New crime novels with unexpected turns

By Jeffery Deaver

Colter Shaw is a professional “reward -looking”, an experienced tracker who specializes in finding missing people – usually for the reward allowance, albeit sometimes from the goodness of his heart. It is a simple calling and yet, as the suspense veteran Deaver showed in four former Shaw novels (and the TV adaptation “Tracker”), as Shaw endangers -or threats it -continue to multiply. In South of nowhere (Putnam, 403 p., 30 US dollars)His sister Dorion begs him to localize potential survivors after a dike collapsed in a small town in Northern California.

From here, Deaver goes to the proverbial races. Does every chapter have a turn? Quite exactly. Is Colter just personable enough to wipe unnecessary conflicts and still find time for romance? Definitely. Does the letter remind you a little of remembering detailed outlines like the one known the Deaver before writing a first draft? You bet. Could I set the book? No chance.

The Colter Shaw series prioritizes the action and the constant probability of the accident and leaves only the slightest amount of space for character development, such as Colter continued to deal with the effects of its survival fund. The books do not measure themselves against the best of Deavers Lincoln Rhyme novels, but everyone meets their mission: exciting commitment.

By Uzma Jalaluddin

Kausar Khan, introduced in Detective Aunt (Harper Perennial, 326 pages, paperback, 17.99 USD)For the past 20 years, has spent enjoying the stability of Placid North Bay, where she and her husband had fled from the busy, busy toronto after a family strag.

But then her husband dies shortly after his diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, and her daughter Sana calls with annoying news: “I'm in difficulties. There was a murder and I am the main suspect.” It seems that Sana's landlord was found in her clothing business with a dagger in the chest. Kausar returns in Toronto's Golden Crescent Quarter as a concerned mother and as a persistent amateur -Sleuth.