Then There was the time we thought John Banville was Illegally parked at the Prince of Denmark
Wellington Leg: Time for the crime fiction roundup brought to you by the Piltdown Exchange: “next time you need money stand a few blocks away and it will trickle down to you.” You’ve probably forgotten the Laffer Curve but that’s okay. The velocity of money is a function of a great many factors slowing to a crawl in certain areas of human endeavor while speeding recklessly ahead in others. Hey, I’ve got the books to prove any theory:
A WELCOME GRAVE by Michael Koryta: Just when I thought the people at St. Martins-Minotaur had forgotten me they send this one, a good one, the second novel in the Lincoln Perry series. Everyone whose anyone in Wellington Leg reads Koryta even the Live Hog specialists and we know how fussy they are.
THE CRUEL STARS OF THE NIGHT by Kjell Eriksson. Murder in Upsalla by the author of THE PRINCESS OF BURUNDI. Eriksson is often compared to Henning Menkell but he’s more lyrical and playful and explores every facet of his characters’ spectacular melancholy.
Also from Thomas Dunne Books: INVISIBLE ARMIES by Jon Evans. One of the better thrillers currently available in stores set in India and the old Portuguese possession of Goa.
RED CAT by Peter Spiegelman. Do yourself a favor and read all of Spiegelman’s books.
DEAD MAN’S CURVE by Arthur Laffer. Okay, I’m kidding, but Arthur wasn’t kidding: it trickles down, dude. Like the way a bowling ball disappears and then it comes back! Way cool.