I received two new books recently, a finished copy and an ARC for possible review. They both look very good, being in one of my favorite genres - mystery.
Sons and Brothers
By Kim Hays
Publisher: Seventh Street Books, April 2023
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
Genre: mystery, detective fiction, set in Bern, Switzerland
About The Book: A suspicious drowning, ugly secrets, and unresolved romantic tension . . .
Walking his dog along Bern’s icy Aare river, a surgeon in his seventies drowns. When his bruised corpse is found, his watch is missing. A mugging gone wrong? The more Swiss police detective Giuliana Linder and her assistant Renzo Donatelli learn about Johann Karl Gurtner, the more convinced they are that he was no random victim. (publisher)
Kim Hays is a dual Swiss/US citizen. Sons and Brothers is the second mystery in her Polizei Bern series; the first, Pesticide, was shortlisted for the 2020 Debut Dagger award by the Crime Writers’ Association.
Thanks to Wiley Saichek of Wiley Publicity for a copy of this book.
A Disappearance in Fiji by
Publication: June 6, 2023 by Soho Crime
Genre: debut historical mystery
About the book:
An indentured Indian woman goes missing from a sugarcane plantation in 1914 Fiji. The local newspapers scream “kidnapping.”
Akal Singh investigates while confronting the conditions of the indentured workers’ existence and the racism of the British colonizers in Fiji—along with his own thorny notions of personhood and caste.
(publisher)
Thanks to Soho Crime for a review copy
Library book:
This one I never got a chance to finish. The cover and title are intriguing enough I'm eager to finish it this time and find out more.
About: two Asian American women band together to grow a counterfeit handbag scheme into a global enterprise--an incisive blend of fashion, crime, and friendship from the author of Bury What We Cannot Take and Soy Sauce for Beginners.
Peering behind the curtain of the upscale designer storefronts and the Chinese factories where luxury goods are produced, Kirstin Chen interrogates the myth of the model minority through two women determined to demand more from life. (publisher)
What are you reading this week?
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