Books by Daniel Pyne and Complete Book Reviews
Daniel Pyne. Penguin/Blue Rider, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-17164-2
At the start of this wonderfully paranoid jaunt through competing realities from Pyne (Twentynine Palms), Jay Johnson, an ordinary guy, is abducted at a Los Angeles subway station. A deputy U.S. marshal known as Public later informs him that he’s in
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Daniel Pyne. Blue Rider, $27 (480p) ISBN 978-0-399-17165-9
Three loosely connected novellas, each focused on a homicide case, make up this gritty, darkly witty, and often bitter California noir from Pyne (Fifty Mice). In “The Big Empty,” set in Hollywood in June 1954, PI Rylan Lovely, an Army vet,...
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Daniel Pyne. Thomas & Mercer, $24.95 (366p) ISBN 978-1-5420-2502-7
Aubrey Sentro, the heroine of this initially slow-moving thriller from Pyne (Fifty Mice), once did covert ops in the military, but she now does similar work for a private security firm in Bethesda, Md. Suffering from short-term memory loss from too...
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Daniel Pyne. Thomas & Mercer, $24.95 (404p) ISBN 978-1-5420-3104-2
In Pyne’s outstanding sequel to 2021’s Water Memory, 50-year-old Aubrey Sentro, a former CIA agent, joins the hunt for Günter Witt, a former Stasi agent who has resurfaced. In 1989, Sentro, then 18, was posted to Berlin, where she was tasked with...
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