Tim O’Mara. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-00898-5
O’Mara’s solid debut introduces Raymond Donne, ex–Brooklyn cop turned Brooklyn school teacher, whose well-intentioned attempt to locate eighth-grade student Frankie Rivas takes him back into the world he left behind. Instead of the boy, Donne finds...
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Tim O’Mara. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-00900-5
O’Mara never hits a wrong note in his suspenseful sequel to 2012’s Sacrifice Fly, which introduced Raymond Donne, a former NYPD detective who now works as a middle-school dean in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. After graduation, one of Donne’s students,...
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Tim O’Mara. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-05863-8
O’Mara’s intricately plotted third outing for New York City-cop-turned-Brooklyn-teacher Ray Donne (after 2013’s Crooked Numbers) opens with a bang. Ray and his old friend Ricky Torres, a former cop and ex-Marine who served in Iraq, are sitting in...
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Tim O’Mara. Severn, $29.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8659-0
O’Mara’s absorbing fourth Raymond Donne mystery (after 2015’s Dead Red) finds the former New York City policeman, now dean of a middle school in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, at a crime scene in Manhattan. The murder victim, Marty Glover, was Ray’s late...
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Ross Klavan, Tim O’Mara, and Charles Salzberg. Down & Out, $18.95 trade paper (322p) ISBN 978-1-948235-25-9
New York City links these otherwise disparate crime novellas. Harlan Ellison fans will appreciate the nervous, jangling prose of Klavan’s “I Take Care of Myself in Dreamland,” which takes the reader for a ride through the mean streets of early 1970s
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Tim O’Mara. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8918-8
In O’Mara’s gripping fifth Raymond Donne mystery (after 2016’s Nasty Cutter), Donne, a former NYPD cop who’s now a Brooklyn public school dean, is shocked to learn that his friend Maurice “MoJo” Joseph, a recovering drug addict who was doing...
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