Michael Bowen, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-890208-91-2
Indianapolis lawyer Rep Pennyworth, hero of Bowen's second novel (after 1999's Collateral Damage), is a man who likes to get to the bottom of things. Rep is a modest man of limited ambition. He would rather spend time with his family, in...
READ FULL REVIEW
Michael Bowen, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (228p) ISBN 978-1-59058-529-0
Milwaukee lawyer Rep Pennyworth and his English professor wife, Melissa, latter-day incarnations of Nick and Nora Charles, deal with an assortment of unrelated concerns in Bowen’s engaging fourth mystery (after 2006’s Putting Lipstick on
READ FULL REVIEW
Michael Bowen, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (243p) ISBN 978-1-59058-287-9
At the start of Bowen's winning third mystery to feature Rep and Melissa Pennyworth (after 2004's Unforced Error
), the couple have moved to Milwaukee, Wis., where Melissa has taken a university job and Rep has opened a branch office for his
READ FULL REVIEW
Michael Bowen, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (226p) ISBN 978-1-59058-667-9
Bowen's convoluted fifth mystery to feature Rep and Melissa Pennyworth (after 2008's Shoot the Lawyer Twice
) finds the Milwaukee lawyer and his English professor wife pursuing a couple of cases with a family connection. Rep is doing...
READ FULL REVIEW
Michael Dowen, Author, Michael Bowen, Author Crown Publishers $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-70149-2
The cloak-and-dagger world of national politics is put under a microscope in this fourth investigation featuring retired foreign service officer Richard Michaelson (Corruptly Procured) and his lady love, Marjorie. When Sharon Bedford dies in her...
READ FULL REVIEW
Michael Bowen, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (229p) ISBN 978-0-312-05850-0
The Mets' disastrous 1962 season is the background for this sometimes enjoyable, occasionally labored mystery starring millionaire freelance lawyer-investigator Thomas Andrew Curry and his new bride, Sandrine. Thomas and Sandy, who finds that...
READ FULL REVIEW
Michael Bowen, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (196p) ISBN 978-0-312-08694-7
In their third outing, amateur sleuths Thomas Curry and his ``quintessentially French'' wife, Sandrine, have left New York City for a photo safari in central Africa, where they are caught up in the maneuverings of civil and military authorities in...
READ FULL REVIEW
Michael Bowen, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (279p) ISBN 978-0-312-10524-2
A reception at the Library of Congress ends with a bang when a group calling itself Kulturkampf detonates a bomb, steals a Gutenberg Bible and delivers it to the German embassy. Soon after, retired State department officer Richard Michaelson, who...
READ FULL REVIEW
Michael Bowen, Author, Bowen, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-20289-7
Cindy and Catherine Shepherd are the dysfunctional daughters of a wealthy CIA agent who died in disgrace. Now their family home of Calvert Manor is up for sale, and the bidding is high. Though it's clear from this novel's start that the mansion...
READ FULL REVIEW
Michael Bowen, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (298p) ISBN 978-0-312-02864-0
The right ingredients are here--a clever killing, hanky-panky in the art world, colorful characters, wry notes on life in 1962 and today, a rich plot, hints of kinky sex and some violence--but they don't blend for a satisfying caper. Abstract artist
READ FULL REVIEW
Michael Bowen, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (199p) ISBN 978-1-59058-109-4
In Bowen's well-crafted, well-researched second Rep and Melissa Pennyworth misadventure (after 2001's Screenscam
), the couple hook up with their good friends librarian Peter Damon and his wife Linda in Kansas City, Mo., for a reenactment of
READ FULL REVIEW
Michael Bowen, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-05179-2
Wendy Gardner, 19-year-old daughter of a senator serving time at a Maryland minimum security prison, appealingly mixes courage and naivete in this locked-room, politically knowing mystery from the author of Badger Game. Sensing his pending parole...
READ FULL REVIEW
Michael Bowen, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-07018-2
Government jargon and covert action abound in this nicely detailed, intriguing tale about the possibilities of rigging elections via computer. Seeing surprise on the face of the doctor who administers the fatal injection to the first man put to...
READ FULL REVIEW
Hillary Bell Locke. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (258p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0026-7
This amusing series debut from Locke (But Remember Their Names) introduces Jay Davidovich, a “loss prevention specialist” for the insurance company Trans/Oxana, who must babysit Kent Trowbridge, a prominent Hollywood actor whose difficulties could...
READ FULL REVIEW
Michael Bowen. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (268p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0607-8
Bowen’s convoluted series kickoff, a political thriller, opens with a bang. As hard-driving D.C. fund-raiser Josie Kendall is leaving the Maryland home of wealthy Jerzy Schroeder, a client with whom she just enjoyed a little extramarital hanky-panky,
READ FULL REVIEW
