Rip Teasers

Delivered with his customary verve and wit, UK critic-author Mike Ripley’s latest “Getting Away with Murder” column for Shots includes notes about: unexpectedly sexy tales from Jack Higgins; the Italian police drama Inspector De Luca, coming soon to British TV sets; largely forgotten crime novelist Mavis Doriel Hay; the employment of “public houses” around London as handy interviewing locales; and new releases from John Connolly, Declan Burke, Nikki French, Olivier Truc, and Marco Malvaldi, plus a preview of Alan Furst’s soon-forthcoming novel, Midnight in Europe. Partake of all that and more here.