Books by Paul Johnston and Complete Book Reviews

Paul Johnston, Mira, $7.99 mass market (416p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2950-3
Johnston's over-the-top fourth novel featuring British writer-turned-action-hero Matt Wells (after Maps of Hell) finds Wells and his pregnant girlfriend, Det. Chief Supt. Karen Oaten, in federal custody in Illinois because they tried to kill the...
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Paul Johnston, Author, Johnston, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-20279-8
This bleak, near-future hunt for a vicious serial killer won Britain's Creasy Award for best first novel and should capture admiring attention here as well. In the year 2020, Edinburgh is a virtual city-state (founded on the ideas of Plato's...
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Paul Johnston, Author . New English Library $8.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-340-76613-2
In the Edinburgh, Scotland, of the near future, crime supposedly doesn't exist. But no utopia stays perfect for long, and in Johnston's fifth and final crime novel featuring the grizzled Quint Dalrymple (Water of Death, etc.), the city's
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Paul Johnston, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-20280-4
In his Creasy Award-winning debut novel, Body Politic, Johnston introduced a near-future Edinburgh--a city-state dystopia modeled on Plato's Republic. In this follow-up novel, Johnston's Edinburgh is almost perfectly realized, while his maverick...
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Paul Johnston, Author Minotaur Books $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-27311-8
A rogue crime fighter in a failed utopian Edinburgh in the year 2025 is such a strong concept that some of its original glow remains in this third entry in the series. But flaws that niggled in the first two books (Body Politic; The Bone Yard)...
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Paul Johnston. Severn/Crème de la Crime, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-78029-018-8
Set in 2003, Johnston’s appealing fourth Alex Mavros mystery (after 2004’s The Golden Silence) takes the half-Greek, half Scottish PI to the island of Crete, to locate Maria Kondos, actress Cara Parks’s personal assistant, who’s disappeared. Parks,...
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Paul Johnston. Severn/Creme de la Crime, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-78029-034-8
The 2004 Athens Olympics provide the backdrop for Johnston’s absorbing fifth mystery featuring half-Greek, half-Scottish PI Alex Mavros (after 2012’s The Silver Stain). Angie Poulou, the wife of powerful businessman Paschos Poulou, hires Alex to...
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Paul Johnston. Severn/Creme de la Crime, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-78029-048-5
Johnston probes Greek anti-Semitism, both during the Holocaust and afterward, in his standout sixth mystery featuring Athens PI Alex Mavros (after The Green Lady). Aron Samuel was believed to have died in Auschwitz with much of his family, but when...
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Paul Johnston. Severn/Creme de la Creme, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-78029-067-6
In Johnston’s solid seventh Alex Mavros mystery (after 2013’s The Black Life), the Greek police coerce Alex, who has retired from looking for missing persons to work at his mother’s Athens publishing company, into joining the search for kidnapped...
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Paul Johnston. Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8503-6
Fans of mysteries set in alternative realities will welcome Johnston’s sixth Quint Dalrymple whodunit (after 2001’s The House of Dust). In 2003, the Enlightenment Party came to power in Edinburgh and isolated the city from the rest of Scotland; 30...
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Paul Johnston. Severn, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8578-4
In 2034, the independent city-state of Edinburgh, the setting of Johnston’s excellent seventh Quint Dalrymple whodunit (after 2015’s Heads or Hearts), is a repressive Orwellian regime, governed by a council of guardians. Though Quint, a skilled...
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Paul Johnston. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8908-9
It’s 2038 in Johnston’s exceptional eighth Quint Dalrymple mystery (after 2016’s Skeleton Blues), and Scotland is in its third year as a new republic following decades under a corrupt dictatorial regime. Former police detective Dalrymple, who had to
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