DAYTON, Ohio – Looking for some titles to add to your summer reading list? Here are some superb crime/mystery novels that have just been issued or are coming out soon.
* “Golden Prey” by John Sandford (Putnam, 392 pages, $29)
The Prey series surges onward. Lucas Davenport begins a new career as a U.S. marshal. He is tracking a relentless killer who has stolen millions from a Honduran drug cartel. He hopes to catch this guy before the cartel’s assassins do. One hired killer is a woman. She brandishes an array of lethal power tools.
* “Proving Ground” by Peter Blauner (Minotaur, 359 pages, $26)
A prominent lawyer is murdered on the street. A pair of detectives, a young Hispanic woman and a wily old fellow who is slated to retire soon, are on the case. Meanwhile the dead man’s son, a troubled military veteran, is seeking the truth about his father. Blauner executes a savagely clever twist.