Archive for January, 2012
Beginnings and Endings
Lucy Burdette (aka clinical psychologist and mystery author Roberta Isleib) is the author of the Key West food critic mysteries including An Appetite for Murder (NAL.) You can read more at her website www.lucyburdette.com or follow her on Facebook www.facebook.com/lucyburdette and Twitter www.twitter.com/lucyburdette. The happy pooch with Lucy is Tonka. My mother’s not around to [...]
January 20, 2012
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Book Reviews: The Cypress House by Michael Koryta, The Attenbury Emeralds by Jill Paton Walsh, and On Borrowed Time by David Rosenfelt
The Cypress House Michael Koryta Little, Brown and Company, February 2011 ISBN: 978-0-316-05372-3 Hardcover Death and corruption haunt this tale about a World War I veteran during the Depression who has a unique ability to see whether a person faces an imminent demise because of a trace of smoke in his/her eyes. Arlen Wagner in [...]
January 19, 2012
Tags: 1921, 1930's Florida, 1950's, aristocracy, bully sheriff, corrupt judge, drug smuggling, England, Great Depression, historical, hurricane, journalist, Little Brown and Company, mind experiments, Minotaur Books, mystery, New York, novelist detective, police procedural, supernatural, suspense, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Hollow House by Janis Patterson
The Hollow House Janis Patterson Carina Press/Harlequin, November 2011 ISBN 978-1-4268-9261-5 Ebook In 1919 Denver, a young woman from the East is in financial straits and must find a way to support herself. Choices are limited for women at that time so Geraldine Brunton takes a position as companion to an elderly widow whose wealth [...]
January 18, 2012
Tags: 1919 Denver, Carina Press/Harlequin, cozy, historical, mystery, police procedural Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews 2 Comments
Why I Love Working With Words
Sheila Dalton is the author of several books for children, teens, and adults, including two literary novels, Tales of the Ex Fire-Eater, and The Girl in the Box. Her YA mystery, Trial by Fire, was shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis, Canada’s major crime writers award, and all her children’s books bear the Canadian Children’s Book [...]
January 17, 2012
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Book Review: Open Season by Maryann Miller
Open Season Maryann Miller Five Star, December 2010 ISBN 9781594149153o Hardcover One white cop struggling to get back on the job after a drug operation gone bad. One black cop, new to homicide, struggling with a racist family and her own prejudice. A city in panic and the police force’s hierarchy bearing down on an [...]
January 16, 2012
Tags: Dallas, Five Star, mystery, police procedural, racial issues Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
A Canadian Town Full Of Books
In an era when people are traveling less and are buying fewer books, the small seaside community of Sidney has managed to buck both trends by making itself a destination for book lovers. This small town of 11,000, about 2 hours by ferry from Bellingham in Washington State, used to be known mainly as a [...]
January 15, 2012
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Book Review: The Heirloom Murders by Kathleen Ernst
The Heirloom Murders Kathleen Ernst Midnight Ink, September 2011 ISBN 978-0-7387-2758-5 Trade Paperback A collections curator for an open air museum in Wisconsin, Chloe Ellefson is back in the states after breaking up with her Swiss boyfriend. When he contacts her saying he’s on sabbatical only an hour’s drive away, Chloe’s life gets complicated, especially [...]
January 14, 2012
Tags: cozy, Midnight Ink, mystery, Wisconsin Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
The Hidden Effects of Climate Change
Jeanne Matthews was born and raised in Georgia, where owning a gun is required by law in certain places and “he needed killing” is a valid legal defense to homicide. Jeanne’s debut novel, Bones of Contention, published in June, 2010 by Poisoned Pen Press, features a conniving Georgia clan plopped down in the wilds of [...]
January 13, 2012
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Book Review: The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad Margaret Atwood Canongate, 2005 ISBN 9781841957982 Trade Paperback And we, the twelve who were later to die by his hand At his father’s relentless command, Sailed as well, in the dark frail boats of ourselves Through the turbulent seas of our swollen and sore-footed mothers Who were not royal queens, but a motley [...]
January 12, 2012
Tags: ancient Greece, Canongate, fantasy, mythology Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review Roundup by Gloria Feit
Known to Evil Walter Mosley NAL, February 2011 ISBN: 978-0-451-23213-7 Trade Paperback Leonid Trotter McGill is a 54-year-old African-American man, an amateur boxer known to have had his “finger in every dishonest business in the city” including being a fixer for the mob, who is trying to turn his life around, now working as a [...]
January 11, 2012
Tags: Amy Einhorn Books, Atlantic Monthly Press, bank robbery, England, FBI agents, Little Brown, magazine journalist, Michigan, Minotaur, mystery, NAL, New York, noir, police procedural, private detective, profiler, psychologist, Putnam, serial killer, supernatural, thriller, Washington DC Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
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