About D.H. Verdan

D.H. Verdan is a New York City-based attorney with a love of European travel and the comfort foods of a little-known Brooklyn enclave called The Palace Court.

February 2, 2013

Ben H. Winters’ The Last Policeman: Law and Order in Light of the Apocalypse

In six months the world as we know it is set to end, but Detective Henry Palace still has one last crime to solve. Winters' first book in a planned trilogy combines a police procedural and dystopian fiction in a thought-provoking mash-up.

July 28, 2012

Adrift at Sea and at Soul: Charlotte Rogan’s The Lifeboat

In 1914, a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean leaves desperate survivors stranded in an overcrowded lifeboat. Grace Winter, however, has a plan to come out of this unscathed -- and years later she is on trial for a horrible crime that occurred onboard.

July 13, 2012

An Exotic Noir Thriller With Karmic Musings: John Burdett’s Bangkok 8

Burdett's novel takes readers through the lurid alleys of Bangkok and the karmic musings of Thai Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep. This isn't your typical police procedural or forensics mystery, though; think, instead, of a mix of Elmore Leonard and Philip Roth.