Brant Randall, Author, Bruce Cook, Author . Capital Crime $14.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-9799960-3-0
This tease of a mystery by Cook, who pretends that “Bruce Randall” is not the pseudonym he used for 2008’s Blood Harvest
, will frustrate more readers than it will satisfy. After an opening reference to the mysterious death of Paul
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Bruce Cook, Author . St. Martin's/Truman Talley $24.95 (407p) ISBN 978-0-312-33573-1
Cook (who wrote mysteries as Bruce Alexander and died in 2003) imagines a bawdy Bard in his final novel. Couched as a memoir, this book serves up the 52-year-old Shakespeare's delicious confessions of the sins of his youth. Cook follows young...
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Bruce Cook, Author Franklin Watts $0 (235p) ISBN 978-0-531-15089-4
Mexican-American ex-cop turned L.A. private investigator Antonio ``Chico'' Cervantes debuts here in a predictable mystery. Chico is hired by two mena sinister, wealthy businessman, and a Washington, D.C., bureaucratto find the man who killed their...
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Bruce Cook, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (231p) ISBN 978-0-312-05149-5
Cook's second caper featuring private eye Chico Cervantes is standard fare, its only break with tradition the Mexican background and perspective of the hero. Ex-cop Cervantes is hired to guard a headstrong young German woman, daughter of a world-famo
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Bruce Cook, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-312-11062-8
Cook ( Death as a Career Move ) weaves strands of the fourth Antonio ``Chico'' Cervantes case rope-tight and ties them off with equal expertise. In what he calls ``sort of a missing persons job,'' the L.A. ex-cop, now a private detective, is hired...
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