Crime Fiction » New Releases http://crimefiction.blogtides.com Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:53:33 +0000 http://blogtides.com?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Common Lawyer by Mark Gimenez http://crimefiction.blogtides.com/2009/04/15/the-common-lawyer-by-mark-gimenez/ http://crimefiction.blogtides.com/2009/04/15/the-common-lawyer-by-mark-gimenez/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:56:51 +0000 Alan http://crimefiction.blogtides.com/?p=7 I’m currently reading the new book by Texas author Mark Gimenez titled The Common Lawyer. This is the 4th book by Gimenez following The Color of Law (2005), The Abduction (2007) and The Perk (2008) and once again it is set in the Texas city of Austin. Gimenez uses Austin as a vital part of the story which takes a young laid back lawyer and sets him up for the ride of his life.

Here is the book synopsis from the back cover.

Andy Prescott is the most laid-back young lawyer in Austin, Texas. Specialising in traffic law, he operates from a small room above a ramshackle tattoo parlor. He rides a trail bike and spends way too much time drinking beer in the sunshine. Ambition has never been Andy’s strong point – he prefers to take it easy. That is, until one of Texas’s wealthiest men walks into his office.

On the sport, billionaire Russell Reeves retains Andy as his lawyer and, in exchange for some easy legal work, pays him more money than he has ever earned before. Andy’s life is transformed. BUt nothing comes for free. Russell is a desperate man whose sole aim is to save his eight-year-old son Zach, who is dying from leukemia. He is prepared to do anything – even if it means putting Andy’s life in danger…

]]> http://crimefiction.blogtides.com/2009/04/15/the-common-lawyer-by-mark-gimenez/feed/ 1 New Releases – April 2009 http://crimefiction.blogtides.com/2009/04/06/new-releases-april-2009/ http://crimefiction.blogtides.com/2009/04/06/new-releases-april-2009/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:56:09 +0000 Alan http://crimefiction.blogtides.com/?p=3 The following crime novels are due to be released in April. Although this is not all the books that will be published this month, these are the books that I’m going to do my best to track down and read.

Blood Moon by Garry Disher (5th in the Hal Challis series)

Fifty Grand by Adrian McGinty

Walking Dead by Greg Rucka (7th in the Atticus Kodiak series)

Palos Verdes Blue by John Shannon (9th in the Jack Liffey series)

I’m particularly excited to see that the new Atticus Kodiak book will be released. This is a bodyguard series that I have really enjoyed in the past and have missed in recent times. I have to go back and read the previous book (Patriot Acts) which slipped under my guard following a 6 year haiatus from the series.

The entire Atticus Kodiak series is as follows:

Keeper (1996)
Finder (1997)
Smoker (1998)
Shooting At Midnight (2000)
Critical Space (2001
Patriot Acts (2007)
Walking Dead (2009)

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