Archive for October, 2011
Book Review: Fifth Victim by Zoe Sharp
Fifth Victim Zoe Sharp Allison & Busby, April 2011 ISBN 978-0-7490-0932-8 Hardcover [This title is presently only available in/through the UK/Canada, not yet available in the US. It will be published in the US by Pegasus Books in January 2012.] Charlie Fox [nee Charlotte Foxcroft] is a “take no prisoners” kinda gal. Now nearing thirty, [...]
October 10, 2011
Tags: Allison & Busby, bodyguard, kidnapping, Long Island, mystery, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews 
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Romantic Mystery Vs. Romantic Suspense
Multiple award-winning author Jacqueline Seewald has taught creative, expository and technical writing at the university level as well as high school English. She also worked as an academic librarian and an educational media specialist. Eleven of her books of fiction have been published. Her short stories, poems, essays, reviews and articles have appeared in hundreds [...]
October 9, 2011
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Book Review: Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick
Ashes Ilsa J. Bick Egmont, September 2011 ISBN 978-1-60684-175-4 Hardcover (e-ARC) Three young people, strangers to each other, band together along with a dog named Mina for survival in the Waucamaw Wilderness after an electromagnetic pulse has destroyed all electronic devices. Unknown to them, billions of people have died but teenaged Alex, eight-year-old Ellie and [...]
October 8, 2011
Tags: Egmont, EMP, science fiction, trilogy, wilderness survival, young adult, zombies Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews One Comment
Writers Police Academy – Best Place for Hands-On Research in Murder Short of Killing Someone and Getting Arrested
Lauren Carr gave up her career of writing mysteries for television and stage to try her hand at writing novels. She wrote A Small Case of Murder while staying at home with her young son. Her first book, A Small Case of Murder, was named finalist for the Independent Publisher Book Awards. Old Loves Die [...]
October 7, 2011
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Book Review: An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson
An Expert in Murder A New Mystery Featuring Josephine Tey Nicola Upson HarperCollins Publishers, 2008 ISBN 978-0-06-145153-9 Hardcover Now also available in trade paperback As many, perhaps most mystery aficionados know, Josephine Tey was one of author Elizabeth Mackintosh’s pseudonyms. In this tribute novel by Nicola Upson, the mystery pits Josephine Tey and her “friend”, [...]
October 6, 2011
Tags: 1934 England, author as sleuth, HarperCollins Publishers, historical, mystery, police procedural Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Tell Me, Pretty Maiden by Rhys Bowen
Tell Me, Pretty Maiden Rhys Bowen St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2008 ISBN 978-0-312-34943-1 Hardcover Also available as a mass market paperback ISBN 978-0-312-94375-2 Police in New York have their eye on an Italian gang from Sicily calling themselves the Cosa Nostra. Molly Murphy listens to the rumors about the new gang but feels that it is [...]
October 5, 2011
Tags: early 1900's, historical, mystery, New Haven, New York City, private investigator, St. Martin's Minotaur Posted in: Full Reviews One Comment
The Devil’s in the Details
Stephen L. Brayton has written stories for many years, but started seriously while working at a radio station in Kewanee, Illinois. After he moved to Oskaloosa, Iowa, he started attending a writers’ group in Des Moines. So much knowledge about writing and critique came out of that group and the others he has enjoyed. He [...]
October 4, 2011
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Book Reviews: Kind of Blue by Miles Corwin, Junkyard Dogs by Craig Johnson and Blowback by Peter May
Kind of Blue Miles Corwin Oceanview Publishing, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-60809-007-5 Hardcover The author, a former crime reporter for the L.A. Times, has published three non-fiction books prior to this, his first novel. Â It certainly reflects his deep knowledge of crime and police procedure, and certainly reflects all the past works that have preceded this effort, [...]
October 3, 2011
Tags: cold case, forensic scientist, France, Los Angeles, mystery, Oceanview Publishing, Penguin, Poisoned Pen Press, police procedural, Scottish professor, sheriff, Wyoming Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
The Cat’s The Thing
Open Season is Maryann Miller‘s latest mystery out in hardback by Five Star Cengage/Gale, and it will come out as an e-book in December of this year. When not writing, Maryann loves to play on stage and is thrilled to be playing Martha Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace this month at the Main Street [...]
October 2, 2011
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Book Review: Random Violence by Jassy Mackenzie
Random Violence Jassy Mackenzie Soho Crime, April 2011 ISBN: 978-1-56947-911-7 Trade Paperback Jade deJong , the headstrong protagonist of this terrific new novel, is a p.i. who has left her native South Africa, but following a ten-year absence has returned after, most recently, doing surveillance work in England. Â Her father, before his death, had been [...]
October 1, 2011
Tags: mystery, private investigator, Soho Crime, South Africa Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
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