Reflections on Toni Morrison, one year after her death
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Once Upon a Crime's thriller picks
Slip down the dark stairs and into the subterranean stacks and you’ll discover an embarrassment of riches in mysteries and thrillers. If anyone should know which thrillers must be read right now, it’s the people who run Minnesota’s Once Upon a Crime bookstore.
I asked Devin Abraham, who manages the bookstore, to recommend three terrific reads hot off the shelves and she came up with three fresh titles that are new to me!
Devin finds the character of Beauregard “Bug” Montage intriguing. He used to be one of the best getaway car drivers in the business but he’s been trying to go straight as a mechanic — even in the face of a pile of bills and cutthroat competition from a body shop across town.
When a former pal offers him a one-day heist with a big payoff, Montage is sorely tempted. NPR reviewer Gabino Iglesias loved the novel, writing that author S.A. Crosby “plucked every crucial racial topic” from this summer’s headlines and put them in “ Blacktop Wasteland.”
Once Upon a Crime is also recommending Jennifer Hillier’s “Little Secrets.” The setup is a child’s abduction and a deceptively happy marriage.
A year after Sebastian goes missing and the trail has gone cold, Marin hires a private eye and gets information she hadn’t bargained for. One of the twists? The point of view of the third person in that marriage — the other woman. And she’s more sympathetic than you’d think!
Finally, Devin Abraham says we shouldn’t miss Tracy Clark’s “What You Don’t See.”
Chicago cop turned private investigator Cass Raines takes a gig as a bodyguard for a magazine editor. When a violent fan attacks at a bookstore and wounds Raines’ partner, she teams up with a detective to track down the would-be killer.
So, our three Once Upon a Crime thrillers are: “Blacktop Wasteland” by S.A. Crosby, “Little Secrets” by Jennifer Hillier, and Tracy Clark’s “What You Don’t See.”
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