Forget the dreary days and heavy reads of January. The weather is warming, the flower are blooming and captivating, juicy new books are hitting store shelves.
Literary critic Nicky Hunter is a huge fan of mystery writer Sebastian Trapp. So she’s thrilled when Trapp, who’s dying, asks her to write the story of his life. She’s invited to be a guest in the San Francisco family home with Trapp, his second wife, Diana, and his daughter, Maddy. Perhaps Nicky can solve a mystery or two while she’s there, Trapp hints: the disappearance of his first wife and son 20 years earlier.
Literary critic Nicky Hunter is a huge fan of mystery writer Sebastian Trapp. So she’s thrilled when Trapp, who’s dying, asks her to write the story of his life. She’s invited to be a guest in the San Francisco family home with Trapp, his second wife, Diana, and his daughter, Maddy. Perhaps Nicky can solve a mystery or two while she’s there, Trapp hints: the disappearance of his first wife and son 20 years earlier.
“City of Dreams” is the middle book in a planned trilogy that began when a stunning woman emerged from the surf at a Rhode Island beach in last year’s “City on Fire” and sparked a war between the state’s Irish and Italian crime families. Now, as the latest installment opens, Danny Ryan leads what’s left of the defeated Irish mob on an epic, cross-country journey in search of a new home and a measure of safety from the Italian gangsters, the Rhode Island State Police, FBI agents and a growing num