Rennie Airth, Author . Viking $24.95 (339p) ISBN 978-0-670-89996-8
The many admirers of Airth's impressive debut, River of Darkness
(1999), which was an Edgar finalist, will relish his gripping second police procedural, set in 1932. The brilliant Scotland Yard inspector John Madden has retired to the...
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Rennie Airth, Author . Viking $25.95 (407p) ISBN 978-0-670-02093-5
Set in London and rural England in 1944, Airth's fine third mystery to feature ex–Scotland Yard inspector John Madden (after The Blood-Dimmed Tide
) shows how five years of war and an overstretched police force have brought “a new...
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Rennie Airth. Viking, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-670-78568-1
Like its predecessors, Edgar-finalist Airth’s so-so fourth John Madden novel (after 2009’s Dead of Winter) transitions from a whodunit to a search for a known killer well before the end. In 1947, someone shoots Oswald Gibson, a retired bank manager,
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Rennie Airth. Penguin, $16 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-14-313429-9
Set in post-WWII England, Airth’s outstanding sixth John Madden mystery (after 2017’s The Death of Kings) takes retired Scotland Yard chief inspector Angus Sinclair, a series regular, to Hampshire to visit friends. From his host, Sinclair learns...
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Rennie Airth. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9029-0
This standalone from Airth (the John Madden series) offers an uninspired variation on a familiar thriller theme—the innocent caught up in intrigue and violence. The opening, set in Paris, is promising enough, as an assassin who once worked for the...
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