John Farrow, Author . Random $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-375-50141-8
A taut and gripping mystery is on offer in Farrow's quietly powerful follow-up to City of Ice, but only once the reader gets past the jarring reverse flashbacks in the first two chapters. The opening few pages contain an information-packed...
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John Farrow, Author Random House (NY) $25.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-375-50140-1
Wintry Montreal cityscapes provide a backdrop for the debut of detective Emile Cinq-Mars, a Dirty Harry of French and Indian extraction who tracks down bad guys with brute determination and Holmesian logic. In his first thriller, Farrow (a pseudonym
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John Farrow. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-05768-6
In Farrow’s smart, enthralling fourth Émile Cinq-Mars thriller (after 2011’s River City), the retired Montreal police detective consults on a case involving the murder of a married couple at an isolated Quebec farmhouse. Cinq-Mars works with an FBI...
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John Farrow. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-05769-3
The pseudonymous Farrow’s tedious sequel to 2015’s The Storm Murders finds retired Montreal police detective Émile Cinq-Mars and his wife, Sandra, vacationing on the Isle of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy. Sandra is hopeful the couple’s first...
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John Farrow. Minotaur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-05770-9
The excellent final volume in Farrow’s Storm Murders trilogy (after 2016’s Seven Days Dead) takes retired Montreal detective Émile Cinq-Mars and his wife, Sandra, to New Hampshire to visit her dying mother. The couple also plan to attend the...
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John Farrow. Severn, $29.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8889-1
Set in 1975, Farrow’s solid seventh outing for Det. Émile Cinq-Mars (after 2017’s Perish the Day) partners Cinq-Mars, who has a reputation as a straight arrow, with Yves Giroux, who knows every unsavory scam a cop can fall prey to. When the pair...
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John Farrow. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8937-9
A prologue set in 1958 in a run-down Montreal neighborhood, Park Extension (“the juvenile delinquency capital of Canada”), sets the ominous tone for Farrow’s gripping eighth Émile Cinq-Mars novel (after 2019’s Ball Park). Flash forward to 1978, to...
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John Farrow. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9073-3
Farrow’s enjoyable ninth Émile Cinq-Mars novel (after 2020’s Roar Back) takes the Montreal detective-sergeant to Quebec’s Joliette Institution for Women (aka Lady Jail), where the inmates live in communal groups, to investigate the garroting murder...
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