Two poets, a lawyer and a newspaper columnist are among those trying their hands at detective fiction this fall, and their sleuths range from a 19th-century English gentleman to a 21st-century Jersey mook, from a Baltimore homicide investigator to a (quite literally) tortured Portland cop. -
Mysteries
Two poets, a lawyer and a newspaper columnist are among those trying their hands at detective fiction this fall, and their sleuths range from a 19th-century English gentleman to a 21st-century Jersey mook, from a Baltimore homicide investigator to a (quite literally) tortured Portland cop.-
Reviewed by Kevin Allman