Books by Barbara Nickless and Complete Book Reviews
Barbara Nickless. Thomas & Mercer, $14.95 trade paper (436p) ISBN 978-1-5039-3686-7
Part mystery, part antiwar story, Nickless’s engrossing first novel, a series launch, introduces Sydney Rose Parnell, a veteran of the Iraq War who handled the disposal of bodies and is now a railway cop. Tucker Rhodes (aka the Burned Man) suffered...
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Barbara Nickless. Thomas & Mercer, $15.95 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-5420-2641-3
This intense psychological thriller from Nickless (Ambush) finds Det. Addie Bisset along Chicago's Calumet River, where a man lies dead with three fatal wounds. Around the ritually posed body are sticks covered with mysterious symbols, which turn...
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Barbara Nickless. Thomas & Mercer, $15.95 trade paper (388p) ISBN 978-1-6625-0081-7
In Nickless’s sequel to 2021’s At First Light, a somewhat overcrowded tour of the dark side of the antiquities trade, Evan Wilding—professor of semiotics at the University of Chicago and hopelessly yearning would-be lover of homicide detective Addie
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