Books by Con Lehane and Complete Book Reviews
Con Lehane, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $24.95 (230p) ISBN 978-0-312-32300-4
Trouble is brewing at Brian McNulty's new gig at the Savoy Hotel in Lehane's intriguing third mystery to feature the New York bartender (after 2005's What Goes Around Comes Around
). Fellow barman and union rabble-rouser Barney Saunders...
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Con Lehane. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-00996-8
Lehane’s enjoyable first in a new series introduces crime fiction librarian Raymond “Ray” Ambler (possibly a nod to authors Raymond Chandler and Eric Ambler). When a researcher is shot dead at the New York Public Library and a potshot is taken at...
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Con Lehane. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-06999-3
Early in Lehane’s intricate sequel to 2016’s Murder at the 42nd Street Library, crime fiction librarian Ray Ambler meets writer and former undercover cop Paul Higgins, who’s donating his papers to the NYPL. If Higgins has information related to the...
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Con Lehane, Author, Cornelius Lehane, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/ Dunne $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-32298-4
A repetitious and slogging plot weighs down Lehane's second Brian McNulty mystery, set in the late 1980s, a few years after the action in his well-received debut, Beware the Solitary Drinker
(2002). When bartender McNulty finds an old...
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Con Lehane. Minotaur, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-31792-6
Lehane’s complicated third 42nd Street Library mystery (after 2017’s Murder in the Manuscript Room) opens with Raymond Ambler, curator of the Manhattan library’s crime fiction collection, helping Shannon Darling research the personal papers of...
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Con Lehane. Severn, $29.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5089-8
Lehane’s intriguing fourth 42nd Street Library mystery (after 2019’s Murder Off the Page) finds librarian Ray Ambler curating a collection of papers by influential mystery author Will Ford for the New York Public Library’s Crime Fiction Collection....
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