Books by Kathleen Kent and Complete Book Reviews

Kathleen Kent, Author . Little, Brown $24.99 (332p) ISBN 978-0-316-02448-8
A family's conflict becomes a battle for life and death in this gripping and original first novel based on family history from a descendant of a condemned Salem witch. After a bout of smallpox, 10-year-old Sarah Carrier resumes life with her...
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Kathleen Kent, Little, Brown, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-06862-8
Kent doesn't disappoint in this prequel to The Heretic's Daughter, taking readers back to Massachusetts before the Salem witch trials as strong-willed 23-year-old Martha Allen falls in love with strong-armed hired hand Thomas Carrier. Rumor has it...
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Kathleen Kent. Little, Brown, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-20612-9
The fates of a newly minted lawman, a former prostitute, and the promise of buried gold collide in Kent’s (The Traitor’s Wife) gripping third novel. Set in Texas in the 1870s, the novel alternates between the lives of Lucinda Carter and Nate Cannon,
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Kathleen Kent. Mulholland, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-31103-8
Det. Betty Rhyzyk, a tough-as-nails Brooklyn cop transplanted to Dallas and the narrator of historical novelist Kent’s outstanding first crime novel, works undercover in narcotics. At almost six feet tall with flaming red hair and a steady...
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Kathleen Kent, Author, Mare Winningham, Read by , read by Mare Winningham. Hachette Audio $34.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60024-450-6
The panic and horror of the Salem witch trials in Kent’s novel is conveyed with dead-eyed calm and an occasional tremor of emotion by Mare Winningham, whose tempered, dispassionate voice is not given to great displays of drama. Her...
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Kathleen Kent. Mulholland, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-45058-4
Edgar-finalist Kent’s harrowing sequel to 2017’s The Dime finds narcotics detective Betty Rhyzyk still recovering from her violent clash with a cultlike family of meth dealers, and her restless time on medical leave has taken a toll on her longtime...
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Kathleen Kent. Mulholland, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-28045-7
In Edgar finalist Kent’s thrilling third and final novel featuring Sgt. Betty Rhyzyk of the North Central Dallas PD (after 2020’s The Burn), two of her past enemies return to Dallas, each seeking revenge. Evangeline Roy, the ruthless head of a...
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Kathleen Kent. Mulholland, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-28021-1
This intelligent, propulsive spy thriller from Edgar finalist Kent (the Betty Rhyzyk series) takes Melvina “Mel” Donleavy, a 26-year-old CIA agent on her first undercover mission, to Minsk, Soviet Belarus, a dangerous place in 1990 as Soviet control
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