Alex Grecian. Putnam, $26.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-14954-2
To hunt for anachronisms in historical fiction is a churlish hobby, but there’s a telling one in Alex Grecian’s affable first novel, a Victorian thriller. A detective describing his sense of responsibility to the families of murder victims employs a
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Alex Grecian. Putnam, $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-15933-6
Set in 1890, Grecian’s startling and spooky sequel to The Yard (2012) charts the efforts of Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad to locate a missing married couple and their toddler in Britain’s industrial Midlands. In the village of Blackhampton, Insp....
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Alex Grecian. Putnam, $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-16643-3
Heavy-handed telegraphing of plot turns and contrived drama mar Grecian’s third Victorian thriller featuring Insp. Walter Day (after 2013’s The Black Country). When a deliberate train derailment outside a London prison destroys the prison’s wall, a...
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Alex Grecian. Putnam, $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-16644-0
In 2014’s The Devil’s Workshop, Jack the Ripper targeted Insp. Walter Day and his loved ones, having escaped the clutches of the Karstphanomen, a group of vigilantes who had captured and tortured the Ripper and whose ranks included Adrian March, a...
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Alex Grecian. Putnam, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-17610-4
Grecian’s mediocre fifth late-Victorian novel featuring Scotland Yard’s Insp. Walter Day picks up a year after the events of 2015’s The Harvest Man, which ended with Day’s abduction by none other than Jack the Ripper. The Ripper, who remains...
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Alex Grecian. Putnam, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-17611-1
This predictable thriller from Grecian (the Murder Squad series) focuses on the hunt for a Nazi concentration camp commander. In 1951, wanted war criminal Rudolph Bormann succeeds in making his way from South America to rural Kansas, where he begins
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Alex Grecian. Nightfire, $28.99 (464p) ISBN 978-1-250-87468-9
A witch, a demon, a shapeshifter, ghosts, and cannibals are just some of the characters whose exploits enliven this sprawling, picaresque post–Civil War weird western from Grecian (The Saint of Wolves and Butchers). When residents of Riddle, Kan.,...
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Alex Grecian, read by Toby Leonard Moore. Penguin Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 10 hrs., $39.95 ISBN 978-1-61176-172-6
The small mining town of Blackhampton is a far cry from the bustling streets of Victorian London, but when three members of a prominent family go missing and a human eyeball is found in a bird’s nest, Inspector Walter Day and Sergeant Nevil...
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