Lisa Henricksson

3 weeks 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.

1 month 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.

2 months ago | airmail.news | Lisa Henricksson |Deon Meyer

Snow Angels on MHz Choice Leo by Deon Meyer, translated by K. L. Seegers Some serious diversion might be in order now, because of the frenzied activity emanating from Washington, D.C., and … just February in general. It’s a good time to watch or read something you can get lost in.

Jan 10, 2025 | airmail.news | Lisa Henricksson

Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow Bear Brook: A True Crime Story Hosted by Jason Moon for New Hampshire Public Radio Given the oceans of crime-related fiction that now flood the market, it might be hard to appreciate the impact of a single book, Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent, when it appeared in 1987. Its hero, Rusty Sabich, was a prosecuting attorney entitled to the presumption of innocence, as the law requires, when an ambitious rival puts him on trial for the murder of a colleague.