“The Good, The Bad and the Ugly” was a notable western. It also accounts for what constitutes this week’s nonfiction topics in the Newsmax Rising Bestsellers. The good comes in the biography of America’s current first lady, while the the bad recounts the history of the American Mafia. Then a noted lawyer and Newsmax contributor explains about combatting the ugly — antisemitism that has spread in many parts of the country and world. A final offering suggests how to live a meaningful life. For fiction, there is the latest mystery co-written by America’s most prolific and successful novelists.
“Holmes Is Missing,” by James Patterson & Brian Sitts (Little, Brown and Company)
In this instant New York Times bestselling second volume of James Patterson’s and Brian Sitts’ new series, a New York-based private investigation firm led by Brendan Holmes, “the brain;” Margaret Marple, “the eyes;” and Auguste Poe, the “muscle;” set off to solve a rash of child abductions. Then Holmes goes missing. Before the new PI firm with the famous literary names can cement its reputation as a “can-do” organization by solving the series of abductions, it must first solve its own internal mystery — where is Holmes? “Patterson and his co-author, Brian Sitts, pull back the curtain on different forms of human trafficking — another case also packs an emotional punch, all of which leads to a shock ending that certainly leaves the door open for the ‘greatest crime-solving team of the twenty-first century’ to return sooner rather than later,” wrote Ryan Steck, the Real Book Spy. [Fiction]“Melania Trump Biography: The 2024 Memoir,” by Stephanie Johnson (Grapevine)
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