Rick Boyer, Author Fawcett Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8041-1036-5
Edgar winner Boyer ( Billingsgate Shoal ) continues his Doc Adams series with this complicated tale of murder, drugs, sex and secrets on Cape Cod. (Sept.)
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Rick Boyer, Author Fawcett Books $6.5 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8041-1044-0
In this overly plotted Doc Adams mystery, the puzzle revolves around the last words of 60-year-old convicted smuggler Christos Ramos, who whispered his confession to the oral surgeon and sleuth. Christos left valuable booty, but where is it? The...
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Rick Boyer, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-395-35289-2
Boyer won an Edgar for Billingsgate Shoal and praise for The Penny Ferry, novels introducing the raunchy, adventure-seeking Boston dentist Doc Adams. In this, third in the series, Adams recounts his latest gaudy swashbuckling escapades, this time...
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Rick Boyer, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-395-42737-8
Oral surgeon Charlie Adams is the kind of Yankee who tends to explain everything, making his new adventure a trifle longwinded, though still enjoyable. The fourth Doc Adams novel (Billingsgate Shoal, etc.) starts with the mysterious, painful death...
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Rick Boyer, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $17.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-395-42738-5
Boyer's prose soars as he describes the shiny gray mammals we know as whales in the short prologue of this mystery, the fifth Doc Adams novel. Unfortunately, that is the best part of a lightweight story that eventually bogs down in silly dialogue...
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Rick Boyer, Author Fawcett Books $16.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-449-90556-2
In Boyer's easy-reading fifth Doc Adams mystery ( after Moscow Metal ), the oral surgeon and part-time pathologist unintentionally infuriates a mass murderer. Adams finds four Harley-Davidson motorcycles hidden in the barn of his newly bought farm...
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Rick Boyer, Author Ballantine Books $17 (323p) ISBN 978-0-449-90506-7
In his Doc Adams stories, Edgar-winner Boyer ( Billingsgate Shoal ) calls on cozily familiar characters, strong local color and good guys who are indisputably on the right side; at the same time he occasionally slips into smugness and boosterism....
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