Peter Steiner, Author, Peter Steiner, Illustrator . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-30687-8
Le Carré and Deighton fans will welcome New Yorker
cartoonist Steiner's engaging, if enigmatic, first novel, which uses the traditional trappings of the thriller to explore a man's late-life changes. After his unjust dismissal from the
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Peter Steiner, Author . St. Martin’s Minotaur/Dunne $24.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-312-37342-9
Literate crime thrillers don’t get much better than New Yorker
cartoonist Steiner’s intricately plotted sequel to his well-received debut, A French Country Murder
(2003). Ex-CIA officer Louis Morgon’s idyllic life in the French...
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Peter Steiner, Author . Minotaur $23.99 (216p) ISBN 978-0-312-37344-3
Steiner's brisk, sure-footed third spy thriller to feature 71-year-old ex-CIA agent Louis Morgan (after Le Crime
and L'Assassin
) shows it's hard to outmaneuver an old dog. Happily retired in France, Morgan, who possesses “anti-
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Peter Steiner. Minotaur, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-00371-3
Steiner’s suspenseful fourth thriller featuring former CIA spy and State Department operative Louis Morgon (after 2010’s The Terrorist) provides new details on how Morgon came to settle in rural France after Nixon’s secretary of state canned him in...
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Peter Steiner. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-06503-2
Steiner’s disappointing fifth Louis Morgon thriller (after 2012’s The Resistance) finds the 70-plus ex-CIA operative living in a small town in France’s Loire Valley with his lover and companion, Pauline. When Pauline’s money manager brother, Jean-Bap
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Peter Steiner. Severn, $28.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8943-0
Set mainly in 1920 Munich, this promising series launch from Steiner (the Louis Morgon thrillers) introduces honest cop Willi Geismeier. As Adolf Hitler denounces the destructive forces of “the foreigners and the Jews,” sympathetic newspaper...
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Peter Steiner. Severn, $28.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9074-0
Set in Nazi Germany, Steiner’s taut sequel to 2019’s The Good Cop finds Willi Geismeier no longer a member of the Munich police force. Because he implicated a high-ranking Nazi official, one of Hitler’s favorites, in a string of killings and rapes,...
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Peter Steiner. Severn, $29.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4483-0641-1
In Steiner’s solid third Willi Geismeier mystery (after 2021’s The Constant Man), the former Munich cop is now a key player for a secret organization that helps people escape Nazi Germany. In 1944, Geismeier’s operation to get American pilot Charlie
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Peter Steiner. Severn House, $31.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4483-0642-8
Steiner’s enthralling fourth outing for Geismeier (after 2022’s The Inconvenient German) revisits the detective’s rookie days with the Munich police. In 1913, a 19-year-old Geismeier, fresh out of the Royal Bavarian Police Academy, is assigned to...
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