Archive for August, 2011
Book Review: In Desperation by Rick Mofina
In Desperation Rick Mofina Mira, 2011 ISBN No. 978-0778329480 Mass Market Paperback Jack Gannon is working on a story in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Jack is a journalist employed by Word Press Alliance.   Jack and Isabel Luna, a crime reporter for El Heralda, a family owned newspaper in Juarez, have just discovered a mother cradling her [...]
August 11, 2011
Tags: Arizona, cartels, child abduction, drug war, investigative journalists, Mexico, Mira, mystery Posted in: Full Reviews 
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Book Reviews: Every Bitter Thing by Leighton Gage and Critical Condition by CJ Lyons
Every Bitter Thing Leighton Gage Soho Crime, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-56947-845-5 Hardcover On the opening page of Leighton Gage’s newest book, the fourth in his series featuring the Brazilian Chief Inspector Mario Silva, the reader is introduced to Jonas Palhares, a petroleum engineer who is very soon after brutally murdered in his Ipanema apartment.  This is [...]
August 10, 2011
Tags: Brazil, Jove, medical thriller, mystery, Pittsburgh, police procedural, Soho Crime Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
In A Word….
Sunny Frazier has had a long-standing love affair with words and anyone who has ever read her work knows it even if they don’t actually think about it. She has been publishing both fiction and nonfiction since 1972. She is a Navy veteran, earned a BA in Journalism, and wrote for a newspaper before joining [...]
August 9, 2011
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Book Reviews: Think Twice by Lisa Scottoline and Hollywood Hills by Joseph Wambaugh
Think Twice Lisa Scottoline St. Martin’s Press, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-312-38076-2 Trade Paperback First there was Cain and Abel. Â In this novel we have Bennie Rosato and her twin sister, Alice Connelly (they were separated at birth and raised by different mothers). Â Bennie grows up to be a highly successful Philadelphia lawyer, heading her own [...]
August 8, 2011
Tags: art theft, good vs. evil, identical twins, Little Brown, Los Angeles, mystery, police procedural, St. Martin's Press, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews One Comment
Stache’s Letter
Maryann Miller‘s latest release is a short-story collection, The Wisdom of Ages, which does not have a single story about a cat. That’s why she likes to blog about cats. Not too many find their way into her books, although the central character in Open Season, the first book in a new mystery series, does [...]
August 7, 2011
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Book Review: Far Cry by John Harvey
Far Cry John Harvey Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010 ISBN No. 978-0-547-31594-2 Hardcover One of the biggest mistakes Ruth and Simon Pierce make is their decision to let their daughter Heather accompany her friend Kelly on a camping trip with Kelly’s family. The two girls decided to wander off by themselves and it was sometime before [...]
August 6, 2011
Tags: England, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, missing child, mystery, police procedural, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Write What You Know
J.E. Seymour lives in a small town in seacoast NH. J.E.’s first novel, Lead Poisoning, was released by Mainly Murder Press on November 1st, 2010. J.E. has a short story coming this fall in an anthology of New Hampshire noir, Live Free or Die, Die, Die. She has had short stories published in three anthologies [...]
August 5, 2011
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A Winning Reader and Book Reviews: Supreme Justice by Phillip Margolin and Coming Back by Marcia Muller
Congratulations to Iris Haltom, winner of a signed copy of Hard Spell by Justin Gustainis! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Supreme Justice Phillip Margolin Harper, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-192652-5 Mass Market Paperback What does an author do when he “falls in love” with characters in a novel he completed? Â Why he just writes another using them again. Â But the characters [...]
August 4, 2011
Tags: attorney, disability, FBI agent, Grand Central Publishing, Harper, mystery, political thriller, private investigator, San Francisco, Washington DC Posted in: Contests/Giveaways, Full Reviews No Comments
We Have a Winner! and Book Review: Downpour by Kat Richardson
Congratulations to Lynette Kutzke, winner of a copy of The Square Root of Murder by Ada Madison! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Downpour Kat Richardson Roc, August 2011 ISBN 9780451463982 Hardcover (ARC) Back in 2006, I picked up the paperback of Greywalker because the title intrigued me. I started reading and I couldn’t stop. I told several friends about [...]
August 3, 2011
Tags: dark fantasy, mystery, Olympic Peninsula, paranormal, private investigator, Washington Posted in: Contests/Giveaways, Full Reviews No Comments
Hard Spell: Hardboiled or Noir?
Justin Gustainis is a college professor living in upstate New York. The author of fourteen published short stories, he has also written the novels The Hades Project (2003), Black Magic Woman (2008), Evil Ways, (2009), Sympathy for the Devil (2011), and Hard Spell (2011) along with editing the anthology Those Who Fight Monsters: Tales of [...]
August 2, 2011
Posted in: Contests/Giveaways, Guest Blogs 14 Comments
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