Luke Jennings, Author Random House (UK) $17.99 (297p) ISBN 978-0-09-180233-2
The conventions of gothic mystery add a frisson to this entertaining novel by British writer Jennings. Set in the rarefied world of media glamour, it features an appealing protagonist whose dilemma becomes obvious to the reader only gradually. Six...
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Luke Jennings. Mulholland, $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-316-51252-7
Superior prose and a cracker jack plot lift this exceptional spy thriller and series launch from Jennings (Beauty Story). Assassin Oxana Vorontsova, who was once a linguistics student at the University of Perm, is employed by someone she knows only...
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Luke Jennings. Mulholland, $14.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-316-52434-6
Jennings’s pallid second thriller featuring British intelligence agent Eve Polastri and her arch-nemesis, Villanelle (after 2018’s Codename Villanelle), lacks the appeal of the BBC America TV series Killing Eve based on the earlier book. Eve once...
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Luke Jennings. Mulholland, $15.99 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-316-53697-4
Jennings’s third and final novel featuring sociopathic killer Oxana Vorontsova (aka Villanelle) and MI5 operative Eve Polastri (after 2019’s Killing Eve: No Tomorrow), a tie-in with the popular BBC America series Killing Eve, does nothing to make...
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