Book Review: Left for Dead by J.A. Jance
Left for Dead J.A. Jance Touchstone Books, February 2012 ISBN 9781451628586 Hardcover With a complex plot and enough characters to fill an auditorium, J.A. Jance delivers another winner of a story set in Arizona’s desert. This one has a little bit of everything and you won’t know where you’re going next. Officer Jose Reyes, making [...]
February 22, 2012
Tags: Arizona, drugs, Mexican cartels, mystery, police procedural, prostitution, Touchstone Books Posted in: Full Reviews 
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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 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 Reviews: The Leopard by Jo Nesbo, The Girl in the Green Raincoat by Laura Lippman and Queen of the Night by J.A. Jance
The Leopard Jo Nesbo Translated by Don Bartlett Harvill Secker, January 2011 ISBN: 978-1-846-55401-8 Paperback [It should be noted that this book is presently only available in/through the UK & Canada. It will be published in the US in hardcover on 12/13/11 by Knopf Publishing Group.] The latest Harry Hole novel presents the reader with [...]
November 9, 2011
Tags: Arizona, Baltimore, cold case investigators, Harper, Harvill Secker, Knopf Publishing Group, Morrow, mystery, Native American, Norway, novella, police procedural, private investigator, serial killer, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
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 No Comments
Book Review: Hexed by Kevin Hearne
Hexed (Iron Druid Chronicles #2) Kevin Hearne Del Rey Books, June 2011 ISBN 978-0-345-52249-8 Mass Market Paperback Atticus O’Sullivan is the last Druid on earth, as far as he knows. Recently he got into a major battle with a god who wanted Atticus’s sword back, although Atticus had it legally, at least in the paranormal [...]
July 20, 2011
Tags: Arizona, Celtic mythology, dark fantasy, Del Rey Books, druid, humor Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
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Queen of the Night J.A. Jance William Morrow & Company, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-123924-3 Hardcover With a bow [by dedicating the book] to the late Tony Hillerman, who was a master at the genre of this novel (and the predecessors in the saga of the Walker family), J.A. Jance has written a murder mystery surrounded by [...]
January 23, 2011
Tags: Arizona, Britain, California, Colorado, Dutton, France, Harper Ecco, international espionage, mystery, Native Americans, police procedural, psychologist, retired detective, Russia, United States, William Morrow Posted in: Full Reviews One Comment
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