Brad Parks, Author . Minotaur $24.95 (330p) ISBN 978-0-312-57477-2
Parks's entertaining debut introduces an appealing hero, 31-year-old investigative reporter Carter Ross of the Newark
(N.J.) Eagle-Examiner
. When the bodies of four men, “each with a single bullet wound in the back of the head,”...
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Brad Parks, Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-57478-9
After a house fire kills two young brothers in a rundown Newark, N.J., neighborhood, Carter Ross of the Newark Eagle-Examiner gets the word to write yet another story about the dangers of space heaters in Parks's enjoyable second mystery featuring...
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Brad Parks. Minotaur, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-66768-9
Carter Ross’s insignificant decision to write a feature obit about hit-and-run victim Nancy Marino, a hard-working waitress and deliverer of the very newspaper for which he works, plunges him into a far more sinister—and surprisingly dangerous—story
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Brad Parks. Minotaur, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-00552-6
Near the start of Parks’s satisfying fourth Carter Ross mystery (after 2012’s The Girl Next Door), the Newark (N.J.) Eagle-Examiner reporter interviews Noemi Kipps, the widow of 37-year-old Newark policeman Darius Kipps, whom Noemi portrays as a...
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Brad Parks. Minotaur, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-04408-2
Carter Ross looks into the outbreak of a debilitating and sometimes fatal illness within a poor neighborhood of Newark, N.J., in Shamus Award–winner Parks’s engaging fifth mystery featuring the investigative newspaper journalist (after 2013’s The...
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Brad Parks. Minotaur, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-06440-0
In Parks’s entertaining sixth mystery to feature Newark, N.J., reporter Carter Ross (after 2014’s The Player), Kevin Tiemeyer, the driver of a Jaguar, and Joseph Okeke, the driver of a BMW, are killed in seemingly unrelated carjackings two weeks...
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Brad Parks. Dutton, $26 (448p) ISBN 978-1-101-98559-5
Shamus Award–winner Parks’s excellent domestic thriller credibly portrays a family under severe stress. Federal judge Scott Sampson’s tranquil and fulfilling personal life in rural tidewater Virginia with his wife, Alison, and twin six-year-olds,...
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Brad Parks, read by Adam Verner. Dreamscape Media, , unabridged, eight CDs, 9.25 hrs., $59.99 ISBN 978-1-62923309-3
Verner’s lively narration makes for an entertaining ride for the fifth novel in Parks’s series chronicling the adventures of Newark Star-Ledger reporter Carter Ross. The story centers on a shady urban renewal project plagued by environmental...
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Brad Parks. Dutton, $26 (416p) ISBN 978-1-101-98562-5
Set in Virginia, this exciting if flawed domestic thriller from Parks (Say Nothing) centers on working mother Melanie Barrick, whose life is turned upside down after the police find a half-kilo of cocaine in her home and social services takes her...
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Brad Parks. Dutton, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4353-6
Inspired by the real-life case of Wachovia Bank, which failed to apply proper controls on Mexican money exchanges, this crime novel from Shamus Award winner Parks (Closer Than You Know) offers an intriguing setup but few thrills. A childhood friend...
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Brad Parks. Thomas & Mercer, $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-5420-2339-9
At the start of this intelligent, fast-paced thriller from Shamus Award winner Parks (Say Nothing), Dartmouth librarian Brigid Bronik learns one morning that her physics professor husband, Matt, who specializes in quantum mechanics, has had a...
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Brad Parks. Thomas & Mercer, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-5420-2495-2
At the start of this tense thriller from Parks (Interference), Richmond, Va., stay-at-home dad Nate Lovejoy is kidnapped. His abductor, Lorton Rogers, explains that Nate is the unwilling guest of Vanslow DeGange, who can foresee some of the future....
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Brad Parks. Oceanview, $29.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-60809-624-4
Parks (Say Nothing) fashions a propulsive page-turner out of familiar parts in this topical academic thriller. For the last 11 years, Charles Bliss has taught creative writing at an elite Connecticut boarding school. He’s shocked when the headmaster
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