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“Innocent as Sin” by C. A. Asbrey – Prisoners of Snow

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C. A. Asbrey has introduced us in the first book of The Innocents Mystery Series to the eventful world of Abigail MacKay, Pinkerton Detective, and the leaders of a train-robbing Wild West gang she befriends.

In the second volume, titled Innocent as Sin, Abigail reunites by pure chance with Nat and Jake, the leaders of the gang, as they find themselves in a town which has been snowed in with a murderer hiding in the shadows. The three must work together and race against time to find the culprit before he claims any more victims.

“Don’t Eat Me” by Colin Cotterill – Leftovers of Justice

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Colin Cotterill has taken Dr. Siri Paiboun on countless adventures making use of his detective skills more than any other profession he might have mastered.

It seems there will never be a shortage of criminal conspiracies for our beloved doctor to solve as he returns to the helm once again in Don’t Eat Me.

This time around the whole mystery revolves around a skeleton which has been gnawed on, as well as the art of turning on movie camera.

“A Terrible Country” by Keith Gessen – Ode to a Home for a Soul

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Keith Gessen is in a better position than most to truly ponder on the relation between home and country, having grown up in the United States since the age of six after his family emigrated there from the Soviet Union.

In A Terrible Country, he presents us with a man in his mid-30s by the name of Andrei who went through the exact same path, with a small difference: he chooses to come back to the country he left behind so many years ago. With few prospects to dream about in the U.S., he hopes to find in Moscow the topic for an article to propel his career… unsuspecting of an infinitely greater prize to his journey: profound insights into the human soul.

“Noir” by Christopher Moore – The Wild Forties of San Francisco

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Christopher Moore is an author who has certainly set himself apart from his peers by virtue of the originality found in his stories. Time and time again he brings us tales from the outer reaches of ridiculousness, no subject off-limits or humour too distasteful.

In Noir he returns to the helm of his ship once again to take us on another crazy wild ride, this one taking place in 1947 San Francisco and populated with a wise-cracking bombshell, a bartender, mobsters, a general, the Roswell crash alien, a talking snake, and this is just for starters.

“The Rat Catcher’s Olympics” by Colin Cotterill – Blood on the Podium

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Colin Cotterill has taken Dr. Siri Paiboun all over Asia in his extraordinary investigative adventures, opening many windows into foreign worlds for his audience. In his latest book in the series, The Rat Catcher’s Olympics, the good doctor takes a slight detour from the usual course as we are transported to the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow.

While the doctor suspects one of the Laotian athletes is concocting a conspiracy, one of the country’s Olympians becomes accused of murder… one Paiboun must navigate complex political waters to resolve.