They hope to sail to New Orleans, but real life may have other plans.

Chastened and on leave, she loses herself in a case involving a pair of boys who've run away in a Huck Finn adventure on a boat. The trap she sets for him alters Cassie's present and future. Then comes the news that The Lizard King, a serial killer she's searched for long and hard, has been located. Dewell is planning her wedding, and considering her boss's retirement and the possibility that she'll take over the Grimstad office when he goes. Paradise Valley marks the return of North Dakota investigator Cassie Dewell and is the third part of the Highway Quartet – don't miss the other two before you read this superb new book. His long-running Joe Pickett series never fails to break new ground. Box is one of America's finest mystery authors. Greene takes a big leap in this book and he lands, after a lot of action, and a dip into corruption and murder, on his feet.Ĭ.J. That makes his legal-cop dramas spot-on for details, along with terrific plots and characters that evolve. Rotenberg has been a Toronto lawyer for decades and knows plenty of insider bits about everything from the secret rooms of Old City Hall to the menu at the private dining room at Osgoode Hall.

But when a high-flying condo developer is murdered, and Greene finds the body, he's back into the fray. With all this baggage, one could excuse Greene for taking a well-earned rest. There's also tension in his broken relationship with his protégé, Daniel Kennicott. The city is changing before his eyes, with cranes aplenty advertising the condo boom that seems to be turning every vacant lot into a 40-storey tower. Heart Of The City, the fifth Ari Greene book, takes the trusty detective back to Toronto, along with the daughter he never knew he had. The only complaint I ever have about Robert Rotenberg's novels is that he takes too long between books.

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