Books by James McGee and Complete Book Reviews
James McGee. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-60598-368-4
Action sequences propel McGee’s rousing first of a Regency England crime series, originally published in the U.K. as Ratcatcher. When highwaymen attack a coach in a rural part of Camberwell, the villains shoot an admiralty courier dead, then cut off
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James McGee. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (480p) ISBN 978-1-60598-387-5
Two bizarre murders preoccupy the charismatic Matthew Hawkwood, a former army officer turned London Bow Street Runner, in McGee’s stellar second Regency crime thriller (after Hawkwood). Chief magistrate James Read orders Hawkwood to go to...
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James McGee. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.96 (464p) ISBN 978-1-60598-427-8
London Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood lands an extremely dangerous undercover assignment in McGee’s excellent third Regency crime thriller (after 2012’s Resurrectionist). The Home Secretary has asked Bow Street to assist the Admiralty, whose...
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James McGee. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (528p) ISBN 978-1-60598-493-3
Given that readers know that Napoleon was not ousted in a coup in 1812 while leading his Russian campaign, it’s a tribute to McGee’s storytelling skills that his fourth thriller featuring a Regency-era James Bond (after 2013’s Rapscallion) is as...
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James McGee. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (496p) ISBN 978-1-60598-810-8
Matthew Hawkwood’s heartbreaking past meets his hair-raising present in McGee’s splendid fifth Regency thriller (after 2014’s Rebellion). In 1812, chance takes Hawkwood, a former Bow Street Runner, to northeastern America, a dangerous place for a...
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