Books by Steven Axelrod and Complete Book Reviews
Stephen Axelrod. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (312p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0087-8
Ostentatious and totally corrupt, Preston Lomax, owner of a McMansion on the Massachusetts resort island of Nantucket, has plenty of enemies in Axelrod's engrossing first novel, all of whom would love to see him dead. These include his drunken sons,
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Steven Axelrod. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (296p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0344-2
Near the outset of Axelrod’s satisfying follow-up to 2014’s Nantucket Sawbuck, island police chief Henry “Hank” Kennis thinks a bomb threat—to blow up the summer Boston Pops concert, where political and business elite gather—is a teenage prank, so...
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Steven Axelrod. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (354p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0555-2
Henry Kennis must deal with a series of seemingly random crimes on the island of Nantucket in Axelrod’s solidly plotted third mystery featuring the poet and police chief (after 2015’s Nantucket Five-Spot). As blackmail and arson escalate to murder,...
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Steven Axelrod. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (334p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0715-0
Scrooge lives in Axelrod’s enjoyable fourth mystery featuring Nantucket police chief Henry Kennis (after 2016’s Nantucket Grand). In 1997, Jackson Blum, an ambitious Nantucket entrepreneur, gun in hand, is about to bury his dead business partner,...
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Steven Axelrod. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4642-1041-9
Fans of traditional mysteries will welcome Axelrod’s entertaining fifth outing for Nantucket police chief Henry Kennis (after 2017’s Nantucket Red Tickets). Despite having lived on Nantucket for a decade, Henry is still considered an outsider by...
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Steven Axelrod. Poisoned Pen, $15.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-4642-1416-5
Axelrod’s agreeable sixth outing for Nantucket police chief Henry Kennis (after 2018’s Nantucket Counterfeit) presents Henry with a number of threats on the Massachusetts resort island. Unbeknownst to Henry, two maladjusted young men, inspired by...
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