- THE OLD SUCCESS picked as one of The Best Crime Novels of the Year 2019The New York Times, December 5, 2019 by Marilyn Stasio Lisa Sandlin’s irresistible mystery THE BIRD BOYS (Cinco Puntos, paper, $16.95) is set in 1973 in Beaumont, a bustling city on the Texas Gulf Coast where a freshly minted private eye has just hung out his shingle. His first job, a classic missing persons case, is ...
- The New York Times: Rotters, Holy Dusters and MurderersThe New York Times, November 1, 2019 by Marilyn Stasio Martha Grimes’s novels are a hybrid of mystery forms, all of them hugely entertaining. THE OLD SUCCESS (Atlantic Monthly, $26) is a perfect example. The plot starts off as a classic whodunit involving a local investigation of the mysterious death of Manon Vinet, a beautiful Frenchwoman ...
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