Independence Square: Arkady Renko in Ukraine by Martin Cruz Smith
The Lock-Up by John Banville
Standing in the Shadows by Peter Robinson
If we’ve adjusted to the idea of an 80-year-old president who is super-psyched for another four years, then these veteran sleuths, all in late middle age, might seem positively dewy by comparison. Except they aren’t, possibly because their jobs age them even more drastically than life in the White House.
Three new novels find Arkady Renko, Quirke (just Quirke), and D.S. Alan Banks trying to ignore health problems and other insults to their well-being while still sharp and possessed of steady moral compasses. Now is the perfect time to get acquainted with these time-tested characters, if you haven’t already.
