Michael Allen Dymmoch, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-32193-2
With its muddled, character-heavy plot, this stand-alone falls short of the standard set in Dymmoch's Thinnes Caleb mystery series (The Feline Friendship
, etc.). Divorced Chicago freelance photographer Joanne Lessing, while witnessing a hit-and-
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Michael Allen Dymmoch, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (311p) ISBN 978-0-312-32302-8
Dymmoch's compelling fifth John Thinnes mystery (after 2003's The Feline Friendship
) skillfully evokes the horrors of the Vietnam War. Called in to investigate a Vietnamese woman's murder, the Chicago detective recognizes the victim as...
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Michael Allen Dymmoch, Author . St. Martin’s/Dunne $24.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-312-37371-9
Dymmoch, a writer of crime and mystery novels, takes a turn in this mostly successful novel about enduring love and family secrets. Rhiann Fahey’s second husband, Mickey, a cop, was killed in a car crash, and his best cop-friend, Rory Sinter,...
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Michael Allen Dymmoch, Author Five Star (ME) $25.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59414-458-5
Dymmoch (The Fall) delivers a regional mystery with a likable enough narrator, acting sheriff Homer Deters of rural West Wheeling, Ill. A sudden rash of missing persons is the most exciting case to break on Deters's watch, and when he discovers body
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Michael Allen Dymmoch, Author Minotaur Books $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-09332-7
Winner of the publisher's Best First Malice Domestic Novel award in 1991, this assured and unusual debut boasts expressive language and sinewy notions of suspense. We never know the quiet, compulsive accountant whose death the police suspect wasn't...
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Michael Allen Dymmoch, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-13962-9
Fans of Dymmoch's debut, The Man Who Understood Cats, will applaud the return of Chicago psychiatrist Jack Caleb and police detective John Thinnes, but the uncommon sleuthing duo are at a disadvantage in this protracted and often plodding case. The...
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Michael Allen Dymmoch, Author Avon Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-72265-5
PW called this pseudonymously written, award-winning mystery about the odd relationship between a psychiatrist and a streetwise cop ``a cunning, adroit debut.'' (Feb.)
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Michael Allen Dymmoch, Author Minotaur Books $15.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-19245-7
Chicago homicide detective John Thinnes and gay psychiatrist Dr. Jack Caleb, the unlikely and slightly mismatched stars of Dymmoch's well-received The Man Who Understood Cats and The Death of Blue Mountain Cat, continue their somewhat uneasy...
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Michael Allen Dymmoch. Diversion, $14.99 trade paper (312p) ISBN 978-1-68230-062-6
Dymmoch's delightful sequel to 2006's Murder in West Wheeling finds Homer Deters, the likable sheriff of Boone County, with plenty on his plate in the rural Illinois town of West Wheeling. In addition to two murders, he has a liquor shipment...
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Michael Allen Dymmoch, Author, Mary Logue, Author Minotaur Books $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-31016-5
Sexual politics pervade Dymmochis fourth Thinnes and Caleb mystery (after 1998's Incendiary Designs), which includes some anxious moments and surprising role reversals. When a woman is raped in Chicago's Lincoln Park, detective John Thinnes...
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