Summer Reading at Salon

The kind folks at Salon.com asked me to contribute a list of crime novels worth spending your time with this summer, and with the usual caveats – not enough room, some great books I’m committed to writing about elsewhere, etc. – I picked seven books that rose to the top of the pack. They are:

• A FIERCE RADIANCE, Lauren Belfer
• INSIDE OUT, Barry Eisler
• ICE COLD, Tess Gerritsen
• THINK OF A NUMBER, John Verdon
• BEAUTIFUL MALICE, Rebecca James
• CITY OF VEILS, Zoe Ferraris
• AND THE REAPERS ARE THE ANGELS, Alden Bell

Look for these books between now and the end of August as they roll in. And speaking of book recommendations, I know my sidebar is months out of date. That will be rectified in due course.