The Knowledge by Martha Grimes - a cabdriver delivers a beautiful, wealthy couple to the hottest spot in London, an exclusive casino/art gallery. They're shot right in front of him and the shooter gets in his cab and tells him to drive. This begins a jumbled tale of possible art smuggling, tanzanite smuggling, gambling, and precocious children. Quite a few coincidences and preposterous actions by the precocious children make this rather unbelievable. The ending read like the author had several possibilities and stuck a pin in one to decide. I always like the usual roundup of characters in a Richard Jury book, especially Melrose Plant. The series titles are always pub names, The Knowledge is a pub no one can find only for the famous London Black cab drivers, whose intimate knowledge of the streets of London is called exactly that.
2.5 stars
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The Escape Artist by Brad Meltzer - Jim Zwicharowski is a mortician at Dover Air Force Base. Here is where our fallen soldiers are received and made ready for burial by their families. It's also where autopsies are performed on those killed in less "public" ways. Jim has asked to do the autopsy on Nola Brown, an acquaintance of his own deceased daughter. But the woman is not Nola and this starts the search for the real Nola. This leads to the discovery of a secret government group associated with Harry Houdini. What does this have to do with Nola? Lots of going back in time to Nola's life as a young girl. Lots of action but I didn't really connect with the characters.
2.5 stars
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Smoky Mountain Tracks by Donna Ball - Raine Stockton, along with her semi-trained golden retriever, is called to join the search for a young girl believed abducted by her father. But when they find the body of the father things don't look good. A short fluff book for when you don't want to think a lot. The beginning of a series but I probably won't continue since my library only has a few of the titles.
3 stars
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