A Passing of the Torch?

It just goes to show that crime novelists can always surprise. In his latest review for January Magazine, Kevin Burton Smith considers a pair of new books--Sorrow’s Anthem, the sophomore outing for Michael Koryta, and Mourners, the 30th “Nameless Detective” novel from Bill Pronzini--and finds himself more impressed with “young tyro” Koryta. Comparing Anthem to Koryta’s debut novel, Tonight I Said Goodbye (2004), Smith writes: “If the author has grown this much from his first to second books, I’m almost afraid to see how good his third one will be.”