My latest round-up column is in this morning's Chicago Sun-Times. It includes reviews of the following books:
Enjoy!
Back again so soon! My new review is up on The Daily Beast: Janet Evanovich's Finger Lickin' Fifteen.
This was a fun one to write. Fun book, too.
My latest review is up on The Daily Beast. The book is Gregg Hurwitz' Trust No One, one of the best thrillers I've read in a long time.
I first read this a year ago in an early galley form -- and was blown away by it. I then re-read it recently in order to write this review and was impressed by it again. It's a very entertaining, suspenseful book with a great main character and an interesting plot. What more could you ask for?
I forgot to check the Sun-Times' website last weekend and it turns out my review of Michael Connelly's The Scarecrow finally ran. It seems like the book section has been having some space problems recently, thus the delay in this review running.
If you haven't picked it up yet, The Scarecrow is an entertaining book and worth reading. I like the Harry Bosch series more, but I'd read anything that Connelly wrote.
Edited to add: The URL for the review changed and it's now dated today. So maybe it ran in this morning's paper. I don't know.
My weekly column is up at The Daily Beast: a review of Lisa Gardner's The Neighbor, in stores on Tuesday (6/16).
Gardner is a great example of an author who has improved significantly over time. I didn't care much for some of her early books, but I've really enjoyed her last few. It's nice to see when an author gets better as the years go by -- because so often it's the opposite.
I have some exciting news to share with you all...I have joined The Daily Beast, Tina Brown's web magazine, as a critic and will be writing a weekly column about thriller/mystery fiction.
I will still be contributing to the Chicago Sun-Times on occasion, but have given up the monthly roundup column I wrote for the paper for the past six years. I enjoyed writing that column and was a little sad to say goodbye to it. However, I decided it was time to move on to new things and when this opportunity came to me, I jumped at it.
My first column -- a roundup of "5 Hot Summer Thrillers" -- is now live over on The Daily Beast. It contains short reviews of the following books:
I hope you'll stop by to take a look. And please leave a comment once you're there.
My latest round-up column ran in the Chicago Sun-Times over the weekend. It contained mini-reviews of:
Enjoy!
This morning's Chicago Sun-Times carries my latest round-up column, featuring short reviews of the following books:
Note: In the review, Charles Cumming's name is mistakenly written as "Cummings" -- there shouldn't be an "s" on the end. I wish I could blame it on someone else, but the fault is all my own.
My belated Chicago Sun-Times column ran today. It contains reviews of the following books:
My latest mystery/thriller roundup appears this morning in the Chicago Sun-Times. It contains reviews of the following books:
Enjoy!
David J. Montgomery is the thriller/mystery critic for The Daily Beast and the Chicago Sun-Times. He has written about authors and books for several of the country's largest newspapers, including the Washington Post, USA Today and Boston Globe.
He lives in the Washington, D.C. suburbs with his wife and daughter.
