Andrew Martin, Author . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner $13.95 (249p) ISBN 978-0-15-603445-6
In Martin’s solid fourth Edwardian-era whodunit to feature railway detective Jim Stringer (after 2008’s The Lost Luggage Porter
), a blizzard forces the train on which Stringer, his wife and young son are riding home to York one cold...
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Andrew Martin, Author . Harcourt $14 (246p) ISBN 978-0-15-603068-7
First published in the U.K. in 2002, Martin's U.S. debut offers smooth prose, but suffers from its callow, 19-year-old protagonist, Jim Stringer. In 1903, Stringer leaves York for London to make something of himself on the railway, a consuming...
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Andrew Martin, Author Harcourt $14 (350p) ISBN 978-0-15-603069-4
Set in 1905, Martin’s second Jim Stringer mystery (after 2004’s The Necropolis Railway
) starts slowly but builds a head of steam like the monster locomotive Jim stokes for “Lanky,” the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. A...
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Andrew Martin, Author . Harcourt $14 (309p) ISBN 978-0-15-603074-8
Martin’s riveting third Jim Stringer mystery (after 2007’s The Blackpool Highflyer) finds Jim newly made detective for the North Eastern Railway at York station in 1906. His first day starts ominously when a hotel porter’s throat...
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Andrew Martin, Author University of Oklahoma Press $24.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8061-2491-9
This academic survey of books, movies and television series about the Vietnam War reads like a graduate thesis. Ron Kovic's book and film Born on the Fourth of July is characterized as ``a powerful indictment of the militarized mass culture of the...
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Andrew Martin. HarperCollins, $26.99 (322p) ISBN 978-0-0074-6152-3
English columnist and novelist Martin leads a riveting and true jungle adventure story set amid the deep forests and fast plunging rivers of Burma’s northern border with India. In 1942, an exodus from Burma occurred as the population loyal to the...
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Andrew Martin. Faber & Faber (PGW, dist.), $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-571-28820-5
In this intricate standalone from Martin (The Baghdad Railway Club and seven other Jim Stringer mysteries), a shooting leaves Det. Supt. George Quinn in a coma, creating a vacancy for the head of the new Operational Command Unit formed to keep tabs...
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Andrew Martin. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-374-14612-2
That moment in early adulthood when life seems full of possibilities but is also incredibly scary forms the sweet spot of Martin’s astute debut. Peter Cunningham, a compulsive reader and lover of literature (but not of academia), teaches in a women’s
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Andrew Martin. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-10816-8
Martin (Early Work) captures young adults’ aimless searches for stability in this bleak, revealing collection. In “The Changed Party,” during a rained-out vacation on the Jersey shore, Lisa and Gary, freshly reunited following a separation, discover
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