Books by Carrie Smith and Complete Book Reviews
Carrie Smith. Crooked Lane (crookedlanebooks.com), $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-62953-310-0
This well-crafted series launch from Smith (Forget Harry) introduces Claire Codella, a New York City detective back on the job after battling lymphoma for several months. Codella, who may look well but is still adjusting to her harrowingly close...
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Carrie Smith. Crooked Lane, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-62953-767-2
Smith’s solid second Claire Codella mystery (after 2015’s Silent City) opens with the death of 56-year-old Lucy Merchant, a famous musical theater actress turned choreographer suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s. The executive director of Lucy’s...
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Carrie Smith. Crooked Lane, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-68331-329-8
The bludgeoning murder of senior church warden Philip Grave, found in the garden of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, propels Smith’s carefully plotted third Claire Codella mystery (after 2016’s Forgotten City). When NYPD...
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