REVIEW: Come Unto These Yellow Sands, by Josh Lanyon

Dear Mr. Lanyon,

You are so well known for your series that some readers may be less familiar with your stand-alone books. I've done my part to avoid this possibility, and I was delighted to see that you were releasing a new stand-alone novel. Come Unto These Yellow Sands, like last year's Fair Game, features an academic protagonist/narrator, a pre-existing relationship between the main characters, and a murder to solve, but those are the only obvious similarities. The novel is nominally a...