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Book Reviews: The Night Season by Chelsea Cain, Shatter the Bones by Stuart MacBride, In Desperation by Rick Mofina, Damage Control by Denise Hamilton, and A Vine in the Blood by Leighton Gage
The Night Season Chelsea Cain Minotaur Books, March 2011 ISBN: 978-0-312-61976-3 Hardcover In this, the fourth book in the series featuring police detective Archie Sheridan, Gretchen Lowell, the beautiful but masochistic serial killer who in previous entries shared the stage with Archie, is little more than backdrop, a recurring theme playing almost entirely offstage. Â Gretchen [...]
February 11, 2012
Tags: Arizona, Brazil, California, cartels, child abduction, drug war, HarperCollins UK, investigative journalist, kidnapping, Mexico, Minotaur Books, Mira Books, mystery, Oregon, police procedural, political intrigue, public relations, reality TV, Scotland, Scribner, serial killer, soccer/football, Soho Crime, World Cup Posted in: Full Reviews 
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Book Review: A Dangerous Harbor by RP Dahlke
A Dangerous Harbor R.P. Dahlke Dead Bear Publishing, October 2011 Ebook Katrina “Katy” Hunter, on involuntary leave from the San Francisco Police Department, is sailing her beloved boat towards Mexico when she finds a young girl caught in a patch of sea grass. Following protocol, she calls the Mexican Navy and, hours later, is still [...]
February 9, 2012
Tags: Dead Bear Publishing, ebook, Mexico, mystery, romance, sailing Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews 2 Comments
Book Review: The Age of Orphans by Laleh Khadivi
The Age of Orphans Laleh Khadivi Bloomsbury, 2009 9781608190423 New trade paperback; won in “Caption This” contest from Roanoke Times columnist Dan Casey See them sleep, these sons of mine. See them, nestled like loved ones, row after row, barrack after barrack, heads awash in the last brine of boyhood. See them sleep, my army [...]
February 8, 2012
Tags: Bloomsbury, general fiction, historical, Iran, Kurds, Shah Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews: Fatal Error by J. A. Jance, Death Toll by Jim Kelly, Rag and Bone by James R. Benn, and Rogue by Frederick Ramsay
Fatal Error J.A. Jance Touchstone, February 2011 ISBN: 978-1-4165-6381-5 Hardcover The Ali Reynolds series usually has the protagonist solving some kind of mystery, and this one is no exception.  However, the reader has to put up with a slow beginning, describing Ali’s experiences during her training at the Police Academy.  When she completes the course, [...]
February 6, 2012
Tags: Arizona, Army investigator, CIA agent, historical, homicide detective, internet dating, Katyn Forest massacre, London, Minotaur Books, mystery, Norfolk England, Poisoned Pen Press, police procedural, police trainee, Polish officers, rural sheriff, Scotland Yard, Soho Press, Soviets, Touchstone, Virginia, Washington DC, WWII Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Hallowed by Cynthia Hand
Hallowed (Unearthly Trilogy #2) Cynthia Hand HarperTeen, January 2012 ISBN 978-0-06-199618-4 Hardcover (ARC) In the second installment of the Unearthly Trilogy (after Unearthly), teenaged Clara Gardner is learning more about her abilities and obligations as an angelblood, a human who is part angel by birth. She and her mother and brother, all angelbloods, had moved [...]
February 2, 2012
Tags: angels, dark fantasy, HarperTeen, mystery, paranormal, romance, Wyoming, young adult Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
Book Review: A Place of Forgetting by Carolyn J. Rose
A Place of Forgetting Carolyn J. Rose Carolyn J. Rose, September 2011 Ebook Also available in trade paperback This novel could be classified as Young Adult in that the protagonist is just nineteen, I certainly remember the 1960’s as a teenager, but it’s meaty enough to also be classified as literary women’s fiction. Nothing seems [...]
February 1, 2012
Tags: ebook, general fiction, MIA, Self-published, Vietnam War Posted in: Full Reviews, Guest Reviews One Comment
Book Review: The Cleveland Creep by Les Roberts
The Cleveland Creep Les Roberts Gray & Company Publishers, May 2011 ISBN 9781598510713 Hardcover Cleveland’s favorite private investigator is back for another riveting case. Milan Jacovich explores the northeast Ohio metropolis and winds up gaining a new friend while losing a few others. Still, he keeps his sense of humor and salute to the city [...]
January 30, 2012
Tags: Cleveland, Gray & Company Publishers, missing person, mystery, private detective Posted in: Full Reviews One Comment
Book Review: Adrien English Mysteries by Josh Lanyon
Adrien English Mysteries Josh Lanyon Loose ID, May 2007 ISBN 978-1-59632-465-7 Ebook This edition contains the first two novels in the series, Fatal Shadows and A Dangerous Thing. Fatal Shadows introduces us to Adrien English, who lives above his Old Pasadena bookstore and is rudely awakened one morning by a pair of detectives, Chan and [...]
January 26, 2012
Tags: bookseller, California, GLBT, Loose ID, mystery, police procedural, romance, serial killer Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews One Comment
Book Review: Naked Heat by Richard Castle
Naked Heat Richard Castle Hyperion, April 2011 ISBN 9780786891368 Mass Market Paperback “All right, fellas, I’ve got my first odd sock.” The detective’s approach to a crime scene, even one in this much disarray, was to simplify her field of view. She pared everything down to getting inside the logic of the life that was [...]
January 25, 2012
Tags: fictional author, Hyperion, mystery, New York, police procedural, TV show Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: A Question of Fire by Karen McCullough
A Question of Fire Karen McCullough Kindle, February 2011 Also available in trade paperback Re-issue of an out-of-print edition Cathy Bennett gets stuck with what she considered an assignment from hell when she gets stuck filling in for the society page editor at her paper. A self-described social klutz, and much happier with her usual [...]
January 23, 2012
Tags: attorney, ebook, journalist, missing evidence, mystery, romantic suspense, Self-published Posted in: Full Reviews, Guest Reviews One Comment
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