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.  Gretchen [...]

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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 [...]

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August 10, 2011  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

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 [...]

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