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 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
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Book Review: Dying Gasp by Leighton Gage
Dying Gasp Leighton Gage Soho Press, November 2010 ISBN: 978-1-56947-865-1 Trade Paperback When the fifteen-year-old granddaughter of one of the most important and influential men in Recife, and indeed in all of Brazil, goes missing, the case lands on the desk of Chief Inspector Mario Silva,who makes his third appearance in this latest in the [...]
January 13, 2011
Tags: Brazil, mystery, police procedural, Soho Press Posted in: Full Reviews
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