Happy New Year! I’m on the last edits of the new Travelers book, tentatively titled The Orange Hill Payback. Then it will go off to the editor and he’ll have his say. So far, I’m happy with the way the story has shaped up. Lots of plot twists and turns, some new tradecraft, and the Travelers conniving their way through a maze of hard trouble.

If you want to catch up on the series before the new book comes out in the spring, you can see a complete list of my Travelers and KD Thorne books here:

 https://www.amazon.com/stores/Michael-P.-King/author/B00W81SHBI

Meanwhile, here’re a thriller I read after Christmas.

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman (2024). Osman writes the Thursday Murder Club series, which I’ve mentioned previously. This book is the start, it seems, of a new series.

This is a rollicking, tongue-in-cheek who-done-it, featuring Steve Wheeler, a retired cop, and his daughter in-law, Amy Wheeler, who works for a close-protection agency. Clients of Amy’s agency are being murdered, and the evidence points toward Amy as the killer. And if that’s not enough, someone is trying to murder her to keep her from solving the case.

It’s off to the races, with comic characters in pursuit of their dreams and Steve and Amy following the clues across the globe to figure out who the murderer really is. The story takes a little while to build up speed, but once it’s going, it doesn’t disappoint.

Happy reading!