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Articles by Julie Doar
The Gallagher Place
New York City’s wealthy Fisher family owns an idyllic second home upstate, where the three Fisher children run wild on weekends and during the summer, with only minimal supervision from the family’s handyman. There, Marlow Fisher becomes best friends with a local kid named Nora, with whom he often trespasses on the neighboring dairy farm—until Nora goes missing without a trace. Twenty years later, Marlow and her brothers, now adults, discover a man’s body in their woods.
The Gallagher Place
The Gray House once belonged to the Gallaghers. But that was before their family tragedies, and Caroline Gallagher decided to sell to the Fishers, who had long wanted to buy. After that, every summer, Marlowe Fisher escaped from her home in New York City to the Gray House in Hudson Valley. She and her brothers enjoyed an idyllic childhood romping around the countryside surrounding their estate during those months. But when Marlowe was about 15, her best friend, Nora, disappeared.
The Burning Grounds
Mukherjee’s talent for elevating genre tropes suffuses the stellar fifth installment of his 1920s-set Wyndham and Banerjee mystery series (after The Shadows of Men). It’s been three years since British detective Sam Wyndham helped his onetime partner, Indian investigator Surendranath Banerjee, flee India after being falsely accused of attempted murder. The men have since fallen out of touch, owing in part to the painful dissolutions of their respective romantic relationships.
A Gift Before Dying
This stunning debut from criminal lawyer Kempt finds Sgt. Elderick Cole exiled to the remote Arctic hamlet of Cape Dorset after making critical mistakes in a sensitive murder case on the Canadian mainland. Estranged from his ex-wife and daughter, Cole waits for the outcome of a civil lawsuit that will decide his fate back home.
The Cyclist by Tim Sullivan
Sullivan’s shrewd second procedural featuring neurodivergent detective sergeant George Cross (after The Dentist) opens with Cross being called to the site of a Somerset demolition crew’s grisly discovery.
Divine Ruin: A Sister Holiday Mystery
Douaihy delivers a crackling third installment of her series featuring tattooed queer New Orleans nun Holiday Walsh (after Blessed Water). As Holiday prepares to take her final vows while trying to keep her music classes running smoothly at Saint Sebastian’s School, the academy is shaken by the death of one of its star students from an apparent fentanyl overdose.
Blade by Wendy Walker
Walker’s slick and satisfying latest (after American Girl) is set in the ruthless world of competitive figure skating. Despite bad memories, New York defense attorney Ana Robbins returns to Echo, Colo.—home of the Palace, an elite training facility for young skaters—to defend 15-year-old Grace Montgomery against murder charges. Like Ana, Grace trained at the Palace; now she’s accused of murdering Emile Dresiér, the facility’s assistant coach, by striking him in the head with a skate blade.
Sharpe’s Storm by Bernard Cornwell
The crackling latest historical adventure in Cornwell’s Richard Sharpe series (after Sharpe’s Command) finds the British soldier in Southern France in 1813, where he’s fighting against the armies of Napoleon at the tail end of the Peninsular War between England, Spain, and Portugal. After capturing a village he’d been ordered to avoid, Sharpe is tasked with escorting his old friend, rear admiral Sir Joel Chase, on a mission to storm the fortress of General Soult, marshal of the French Empire.
The Widow
John Grisham. Doubleday, $32 (416p) ISBN 978-0-385-54898-4 Grisham follows up Camino’s Ghosts with a captivating legal whodunit. Small-town Virginia attorney Simon Latch is in trouble: his practice is struggling, he’s about to get divorced, and his gambling debts are piling up. A potential solution arrives when octogenarian widow Eleanor Barnett consults Latch about a will she’s had drawn up by another lawyer.
The Self-Centered Spring Break
I planned most of the trip, so I assure you that the Megabus was never going to be part of it. Not that there’s anything wrong with the Megabus, it’s just that if I have the choice, I will always choose shotgun in my friend’s car. Every part of the road trip had gone perfectly right down to the free lodging with my friend’s grandmother. We only had to put up with the old woman’s occasional mentions of abortion and the Holocaust.
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