Lisa Henricksson

1 week ago | airmail.news | Lisa Henricksson

Towards Zero on BritBox This spring feels like Agatha Christie season, with a new book that pays tribute to the queen of mystery and a high-profile BritBox series that takes a liberal approach to her 1944 novel Towards Zero with uneven results. I had hoped for better. Unlike some of her other books, where shallow characters can take second place to the plot, Towards Zero is a promising candidate for adaptation.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Lisa Henricksson

4 hours agoSpoilers below. Adapting and modernizing existing IP is hardly a new idea; Tina Fey’s new Netflix mini series The Four Seasons is just one of the latest to do so, tapping a film from 1981 as inspiration. Named after the Vivaldi quartet of compositions, both the film and the TV series track one year …

1 month ago | airmail.news | Lisa Henricksson

The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie What Dennis Lehane did for Boston with books such as Mystic River and Small Mercies and Don Winslow did for Providence with his Danny Ryan trilogy, Ron Currie does for Waterville, Maine, with this equally stunning saga of a community mired in drugs and despair. At its center is the titular Barbara “Babs” Dionne, who is the drug-dealing queen of a depressed Franco-American section of Waterville called Little Canada.

2 months ago | airmail.news | Lisa Henricksson |Deanna Raybourn

Kills Well with Others by Deanna Raybourn The lone-wolf hero is a familiar figure in crime fiction, but two new books by Deanna Raybourn and Juan Gómez-Jurado attest to the advantages of collaboration. That the female assassins in Kills Well with Others collaborate on murder flips the script somewhat—shouldn’t they be solving crimes together?—but, as they like to say, the world would be a better place without their targets.

2 months ago | airmail.news | Lisa Henricksson |Henry Porter |Marie E. Benedict |Alison Gaylin

The Enigma Girl by Henry Porter The overlap between the skills of an investigative journalist and those of a spy is wide in Henry Porter’s gripping new thriller. His heroine, M.I.5 agent Slim Parsons, whose last undercover assignment ended in disaster, gets a new mission: infiltrate a muckraking Web site that the Security Service suspects is hacking into national-security databases.