Stacey Coverstone. Five Star, $25.95 (280p) ISBN 978-1-4328-2541-6
Unraveling a mystery in a haunted saloon has never been more romantic. Running from heartache, Shay Brennan arrives in Hill City, S.D., and is immediately drawn to the Buckhorn Saloon. Built in 1885, the historic Badlands bar bears its share of...
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Michael Z. Lewin, Author Mysterious Press $26 (236p) ISBN 978-0-89296-439-0
The lines by Ogden Nash--``If called by a panther, / Don't anther''--aptly kick off this story, narrated by a PI who maintains his comic-ironic tone even in the face of danger. Albert Samson has reluctantly decided to promote his services in TV ads...
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Michael Z. Lewin, Author Crippen & Landru Publishers $17 (246p) ISBN 978-1-885941-62-6
Michael Z. Lewin (Family Planning) presents 21 criminal plots, including the Edgar-nominated title story, in The Reluctant Detective and Other Stories. ""Danny"" Quayle, the Lunghi family (Brits of Italian background), Rover the canine detective...
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Michael Z. Lewin, Author Henry Holt & Company $23.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6225-0
Although Lewin, award-winning writer of detective fiction, claims that his first book for young readers is a ""coming of age story,"" his sprawling thriller draws more on the conventions of the adult historical saga than those of the YA novel. He...
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Michael Z. Lewin, Author William Morrow & Company $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-06880-6
The latest of Lewin's excellent thrillers hurls the reader into swiftly unfolding events in Indianapolis, where energetic Adele Buffington reports an intruder in the social-service agency she heads. Sgt. Homer Proffitt, a new detective on the police
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Michael Z. Lewin, Author William Morrow & Company $0 (216p) ISBN 978-0-688-04342-1
Lt. Leroy Powder, head of Indianapolis P.D.'s Missing Person Bureau, is asked by a frightened 12-year-old boy to find his father. Powder (""the cop who sent his son to jail'') is also looking for his ex-con son, Ricky, who has violated his parole....
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Michael Z. Lewin, Author Mysterious Press $18.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-89296-440-6
Midway through this hilarious tale, the narrator, a short, inventive homeless man named Jan Moro, tells how two men chased him from his hut at the state fairgrounds in Indianapolis: ``One of them only has seven toes and he works for a guy who...
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Michael Z. Lewin, Author Foul Play Press $20 (175p) ISBN 978-0-88150-348-7
Does an out-of-place bottle of dishwashing liquid indicate marital disorder? Perhaps not, but it's enough to bring a worried housewife to call upon the Lunghi family, a sprawling and entertaining, if implausible, sleuthing clan working in the...
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Michael Z. Lewin, Author, James Ed. Cohen, Author Mysterious Press $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-40159-3
This tale of a private eye's encounter with enviromentalist terrorists is generally well-crafted, although it needs a clearer evocation of place. (June)
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Michael Z. Lewin, Author, Lewin, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-24391-3
Of all the matters that concern members of the Lunghi Family of Bath, England, in their latest outing, crime is the least of them. That eclecticism adds charm to this novel, but it also creates a problem: the Lunghis (Family Business, etc.) are...
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