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The Thread's Must Read | Three Thrillers To Keep You Up I just finished Daniel Silva’s 2018 spy novel,“The Other Woman” and it’s both historical and contemporary. Mossad super-spy Gabriel Allon is tracking the love child of the British traitor Kim Philby because he’s convinced the child has been raised by the Russians to follow in her father’s footsteps. The novel is chock-full of delicious detail about how the real Kim Philby operated for years as a Russian spy and was finally unmasked by a close friend. I guess I’ve been yearning for some London fog and a spot of tea this summer because my next thriller is set in war-time London. “Black Out” is the first in a series of novels by John Lawton that features Scotland Yard’s Inspector Frederick Troy. Now, I’m a bit late to the “Lawton” party — he’s been publishing these books since 1995 — and all the better because that means there is a deep backlist! Inspector Troy dodges Luftwaffe bombs and Yard politics to investigate a murder that the killers tried to conceal in the destruction of the Blitz. He’s taciturn, inventive and relentless. Finally, I have to mention the novel “Lola” by Melissa Scrivener Love. The lead character, Lola Vasquez, could’ve easily fit on my summer list of most intriguing females of fiction. The story is set in an impoverished South Central L.A. neighborhood where Lola has risen, through a combination of cunning and savagery, to run a small cadre of drug dealers and cartel wannabes. Tell me what thrillers you're reading on Twitter @KerriMPR. -Kerri Miller |
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| | Talking Volumes 2019 season guide | MPR and the Star Tribune are proud to announce the 20th season of Talking Volumes. This season will feature interviews with Alice Hoffman, Saeed Jones, Tim O’Brien, Karen Armstrong, Lindy West and Tracy K. Smith. More | |
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| | Telepathy and surveillance converge in 'Overthrow' | "Overthrow" by Caleb Crain |
| Caleb Crain's perceptive novel examines the ways we're all under surveillance by corporations and computers, every move and click tracked, and the ways that intersects with how we watch each other. More | |
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