The Two Minute Rule

by Robert Crais

Career criminal Max Holman, a.k.a. the Hero Bandit, has just finished serving ten years in prison for bank robbery and at middle age finally understands that he has to change his ways. On the day of his release, Holman's estranged police officer son is killed along with three other cops—a tragedy that shatters any hope of reconciliation. When the LAPD quickly closes the case by blaming a junkie who killed himself after the crime, Holman is unconvinced. He persuades the now retired FBI agent who originally arrested him to help him, and the story takes off at breakneck speed. In this superb tale with a likable ex-con protagonist, Crais creates a totally believable world in which good and evil are turned upside down.

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by Lisa Gardner

Boston Police Sgt. D.D. Warren hooks up with Massachusetts State Police Det. Robert Dodge to investigate a long-abandoned underground cavern found on the grounds of the former Boston State Mental Hospital. The hospital had been shut down decades earlier, but the mummified bodies of six young girls are found belowground, recalling a previous case. Annabelle Granger has spent her life running, moving from city to city and adopting a new name every 18 months or so at her paranoid father's whim. When she reads about the six dead young girls, she begins to suspect that her deceased father was somehow involved in the crime. This is a fastpaced, twisty thriller! Good summertime read!