Book Review: The Candidate Coroner, Fenway Stevenson Book 3, Paul Austin Ardoin Mystery: The Candidate Coroner, Fenway Stevenson Book 3, Paul Austin Ardoin Despite her initial reluctance to run for the office she has held for a few months, Fenway Stevenson has been convinced by her friends and colleagues to run for County Coroner. Her […]
Book Review: Midtown Huckster, Alex Cohen Book 3, Leopold Borstinski Book Review: Midtown Huckster, Alex Cohen Book 3, Leopold Borstinski Alex Cohen has risen almost to the top of the New York City mob. A loose affiliation between the Jewish and Italian mobs means somewhat less violence and more profits for everyone. As part of the Murder […]
Book Review: The Jansson Tapes, A Terry Bell Mystery Book 3, Colin Garrow Mystery: The Jansson Tapes, A Terry Bell Mystery Book 3, Colin Garrow Cabbie/investigator Terry Bell has settled into a nice routine. He and Carol are now living together. He still works part-time as a cabbie. And his new website for private […]
Book Review: Power Play, Tony Kent Thriller: Power Play, Tony Kent A passenger plane explodes over the Atlantic, killing more than 500 people. Among them is a charismatic presidential candidate, the presumptive nominee against the sitting American president. All the evidence points toward a Moslem baggage handler, a Syrian refugee who entered Britain using […]
Book Review: Mexico Street, Chastity Riley Book 3, Simone Buchholz, Translated by Rachel Ward Mystery: Mexico Street, Chastity Riley Book 3, Simone Buchholz, Translated by Rachel Ward Having book-blogged for almost two years, I am at the point where there are not a lot of books that leap out at me as being unique in their […]
Book Review: Bobby March Will Live Forever, Harry McCoy Book 3, Alan Parks Fiction: Bobby March Will Live Forever, Harry McCoy Book 3, Alan Parks Janis Joplin. Jimi Hendrix. Jim Morrison. Kurt Cobain. All famous musicians who died at the tender age of 27. In 1973, Glasgow’s own Bobby March joined this unfortunate group in […]
Book Review: Containment, Sam Shephard Book 3, Vanda Symon Book Review: Containment, Vanda Symon Containment is part of a series of detective novels by internationally renowned author Vanda Symon. Set in Dunedin, New Zealand, her protagonist is a smart, sassy, complicated young detective named Samantha (Sam) Shephard. Shephard is called to the scene of […]
Book Series Review: The Red: The Trials, and Going Dark, Books 2 and 3, Linda Nagata Science Fiction/Thriller: The Red: The Trials,and Going Dark, Books 2 and 3, Linda Nagata The story of Lieutenant James Shelley and The Red continues through a trilogy of books. After the events of the first book, Shelley […]
Book Review: Beneath the Sugar Sky, The Wayward Children Book 3, Seanan McGuire Fantasy: Beneath the Sugar Sky, The Wayward Children Book 3, Seanan McGuire Seanan McGuire has an extraordinary gift for springing the unexpected upon you in a way that makes you think, “No way, of course it’s that way!” So when a major character […]
Book Review: The Sixth Wicked Child, A 4MK Thriller Book 3, J.D. Barker Thriller: The Sixth Wicked Child, A 4MK Thriller Book 3, J.D. Barker The Fourth Monkey Killer, or 4MK, has terrorized Chicago for years. Detective Sam Porter has been trying to catch him, to the point of chasing leads across the country and […]
