Jo Bannister, Author Minotaur Books $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-34301-9
In British author Bannister's absorbing fifth mystery to feature Brodie Farrell (after 2004's The Depths of Solitude), the scrappy sleuth helps Jared Fry, a petulant rock star, find a home for himself and his coterie-an ancient, former hotel known...
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Jo Bannister. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9087-0
Bookshop owner Gabriel Ash, a former spy whose mental breakdown has left him with socialization issues and a tendency to hold long conversations with his dog, Patience, gets into trouble in Bannister’s enjoyable seventh mystery set in Norbold,...
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Jo Bannister. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8864-8
At the start of Bannister’s diverting sixth Hazel Best and Gabriel Ash mystery (after 2018’s Kindred Spirits), Hazel, a constable in Norbold, England, disarms a low-level thug, Trucker Watts, who’s menacing a fellow passenger on a train. A short...
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Jo Bannister. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8796-2
Bannister’s fanciful fifth mystery featuring former security analyst Gabriel Ash and Constable Hazel Best (after 2017’s Other Countries) finds Ash, who was invalided out of the British intelligence service due to a nervous breakdown, running a newly
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Jo Bannister. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8702-3
In Bannister’s thoughtful fourth mystery featuring former government security analyst Gabriel Ash and Constable Hazel Best (after 2015’s Desperate Measures), Middle East native Rachid Iqbal, armed with a weaponized spray can, turns up in the English
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Jo Bannister. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-07566-6
In Bannister’s uneven third mystery featuring former security analyst Gabriel Ash and Norbold, England, police officer Hazel Best (after 2014’s Perfect Sins), the pair learn that Ash’s wife and two sons, kidnapped by Somali pirates four years...
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Jo Bannister. Minotaur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-05420-3
British author Bannister’s well-constructed sequel to 2013’s Deadly Virtues finds Gabriel Ash, who was once involved in tracking hijacked munitions for national security, still searching for his wife and children, who were kidnapped by Somali...
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Jo Bannister. Minotaur, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-02344-5
Stubborn morality and acid-tinged whimsy drive this superior stand-alone from British author Bannister (Liars All and eight other Brodie Farrell mysteries). Recovering mental patient Gabriel Ash looks pathetic and vulnerable as he rambles through...
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Jo Bannister. Minotaur, $25.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-57353-9
For the four years since those desperate hours on a snow-lashed Alaskan ridge, British climber Nicky Horn hasn't stopped blaming himself for the death of his best friend, Patrick Hanratty, in a fall. Worse yet, neither has Patrick's gangster father.
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Jo Bannister, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-18157-4
The usually reliable Bannister (The Lazarus Hotel, 1997, and the Castlemere series) gets off to a surprisingly bland start in this kickoff of a new crime series. Her sleuth is advice columnist Rosie Holland, a rotund, tough-talking middle-aged woman
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Jo Bannister, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-15565-0
Demonstrating a gift for precise and evocative language, Bannister has written such bold and original works as No Birds Sing and A Bleeding of Innocents, both in the Castlemere series. Leaving that series aside, the British author offers a stunning...
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Jo Bannister, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (251p) ISBN 978-0-312-13191-3
Bannister's (The Matrix) tightly knit British procedural dealing with racism and other issues of morality accelerates gradually in tempo and intensity. Detective Chief Inspector Frank Shapiro is admired and emulated by his sergeant, Cal Donovan, and
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Jo Bannister, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (202p) ISBN 978-0-312-11252-3
Against a lush and oppressive urban waterfront, Inspector Liz Graham of the Castlemere CID investigates the cases of two dead girls, both found with their throats slashed. The first was a young prostitute called Charisma, the next a girl riding her...
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Jo Bannister, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (218p) ISBN 978-0-312-09750-9
A double murder and two coppers with scores to settle and divergent methods keep Bannister's ( Striving with Gods ) series launch moving at a brisk clip. Sgt. Cal Donovan of the Castlemere CID is assigned to the shooting murder of a young nurse from
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Jo Bannister, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-28432-9
Deviating from her popular police procedurals (Changelings, etc.), British veteran Bannister introduces a new mystery series that's both fresh and different. Brodie Farrell, recently divorced and the single parent of a four-year-old, runs her...
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Jo Bannister, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-26567-0
In Bannister's seventh superior police procedural set in the town of Castlemere (The Hireling's Tale, etc.), Det. Insp. Liz Graham and Supt. Frank Shapiro must scramble to identify a psychopath whose alarming hoaxesDtainting a yogurt container and a
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Jo Bannister, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-24400-2
Bannister deftly examines the dedication and determination of three types of hirelings--a prostitute, an assassin and a British police officer--in this eighth, expertly crafted entry in her Castlemere, England, series (Broken Lines, Forecasts, Feb....
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Jo Bannister, Author Doubleday Books $12.95 (186p) ISBN 978-0-385-26451-8
This is Irish journalist Bannister's eighth mystery starring Dr. Clio Marsh and her husband, Detective Harry Marsh. Sailing near the Fairy Isles off Scotland, the Marshes anchor beside the yacht Skara Sun and witness the explosion that kills the...
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Jo Bannister, Author St. Martin's Press $22.99 (308p) ISBN 978-0-312-14382-4
Castlemere, an English city of about 80,000, isn't usually a hotbed of crime. But in a 48-hour stretch, its coppers have to deal with ram-raiders (a British version of smash-and-grab robbers); a serial rapist; a dog-fighting ring; and a train...
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Jo Bannister, Author . Minotaur $25.95 (319p) ISBN 978-0-312-61239-9
British author Bannister opens her well-constructed ninth Brodie Farrell mystery (after 2008's Closer Still
) on a somber note with a coldhearted driver running down a young couple outside a South Downs restaurant. Bobby Carson kills Tom Sanger
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Jo Bannister, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-312-38367-1
In British author Bannister's absorbing eighth Brodie Farrell mystery (after 2007's Flawed
), Farrell continues to juggle the two men in her life: Det. Supt. Jack Deacon of the Dimmock police, who's the father of her young son, and...
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Jo Bannister, Author . Severn $27.95 (201p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6598-4
In this intriguing novel of psychological suspense from Irish author Bannister (The Fifth Cataract
), six-year-old Matthew “Mouse” Firth is accused of starting a fire in his London home that permanently disfigures his mother, Ruth. In...
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Jo Bannister, Author . St. Martin’s Minotaur $24.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-312-37566-9
In Bannister’s emotionally weighty seventh Brodie Farrell mystery (after 2006’s Requiem for a Dealer
), Farrell panics when her unexpected pregnancy threatens the continued success of her business—Looking for Something?—an...
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Jo Bannister, Author . Severn $27.95 (202p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6387-4
Six years after the disappearance of Laurence Schofield's vivacious
\t\t 15-year-old daughter, Cassie, the Birmingham architect desperately chases a
\t\t clue to her whereabouts in this socially conscious stand-alone from prolific
\t\t British...
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Jo Bannister, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (268p) ISBN 978-0-312-36211-9
In Bannister's riveting sixth mystery about professional finder Brodie Farrell (after 2005's Breaking Faith
), Brodie's driving lesson for her friend Daniel Hood, a mild-mannered math teacher, comes to a screeching halt long before he'
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Jo Bannister, Author . Severn $27.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6284-6
Palpable tensions suffuse this gritty mystery from British author Bannister (True Crimes
) set in the bleak marshlands of Norfolk. Clio Marsh, a former doctor turned writer, has joined a survival course to gather material for her latest work of...
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Jo Bannister, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-33712-4
At the start of Irish author Bannister's suspenseful fourth novel to feature beautiful, fiercely independent Brodie Farrell (after 2003's Reflections
), Brodie tries to contact her friend Daniel Hood, with whom she's been out of touch...
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Jo Bannister, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $22.95 (268p) ISBN 978-0-312-31938-0
Set in Northern Ireland, Bannister's third Brodie Farrell suspense novel (after 2002's True Witness
) tells the emotionally draining tale of two sisters, 14-year-old Juanita and 11-year-old Emerald Daws, left alone in the world after their...
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Jo Bannister, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-30817-9
Daniel Hood, a sweet bachelor math teacher who's still recovering from his last encounter with danger (in 2001's Echoes of Lies), finds himself once again dealing with the consequences of a crime, in this poignant and chilling psychological...
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Jo Bannister, Author, Bannister, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-19842-8
The police of Castlemere, England, try desperately to identify the person behind a brutal beating in this brilliantly plotted addition to a reliable British procedural series (A Bleeding of Innocents, etc.). Though common purpose and mutual respect...
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