I have good news for fans of Ed Gorman and his
series character Dev Conrad. Severn
House has scheduled the release of the fourth novel in the Dev Conrad
series. It is titled Flashpoint, and the
release date is August 1, 2013. The
cover art looks great and the description at Amazon is even better:
“Political Consultant Devlin Conrad had the feeling that his very
married client Senator Robert Logan was a lot more involved with the beautiful
and mysterious Tracy Cabot than he wanted to admit. But he learned too late
that the Cabot woman was a spy working for a shadowy right-wing organization –
too late because by then she'd been found murdered in Senator Logan’s fishing
cabin, and the police are certain that he killed her. But Conrad finds numerous
suspects in the Senator's mansion and in the somewhat comic but dangerous
figure of political saboteur Howie Ruskin. He must find the real killer if he
is to win the election for a client whose vanity and arrogance make him right
at home in the United States Senate.”
The Conrad novels are really quite good, and each of
the first three is better than its predecessor.
And judging by the description of Flashpoint
I suspect this trend will continue. The
first three titles are: Sleeping Dogs,
Stranglehold, and Blindside.
I reviewed Sleeping
Dogs in 2008 here, and Stranglehold more
recently here.