Book Reviews: Gloria Feit X 3
Trick of the Dark Val McDermid Little, Brown, 2010 ISBN 978-1-4087-0201-7 Hardcover [This book is presently available only in/through the UK and Canada, not available in the US at this time] As the book opens, Dr. Charlotte [“Charlie”] Flint finds her professional life as a forensic psychiatrist in tatters, her reputation destroyed, and awaiting a [...]
March 23, 2011
Tags: Atlantic Monthly Press, British, FBI, Little Brown (UK), Mira Books, mystery, occult, Oxford, police procedural, serial killer, South Africa, standalone, suspense, Tennessee Posted in: Full Reviews 
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Book Review: Fever of the Bone by Val McDermid
Fever of the Bone Val McDermid Harper, 2010 ISBN 978-006198648-2 Trade Paperback Val McDermid‘s latest Carol Jordan/Tony Hill novel more than lives up to the expectations raised by the previous books in the series. DCI Carol Jordan now heads up her own elite Major Incident Team, handling current as well as cold cases, but the [...]
February 26, 2011
Tags: British, criminal profiler, Harper, mystery, police procedural, psychologist Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Ted Feit Triple Threat Book Reviews
Crossfire Dick Francis and Felix Francis Putnam, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-399-15681-6 Hardcover This is the fourth work completed by Dick Francis and his son, and it certainly lives up the standards the late author set in a long and distinguished career until his death last February. As did the more than 40 novels Dick Francis wrote, [...]
December 4, 2010
Tags: British, courtroom, dogs, Grand Central, horse racing, mystery, Putnam, Thailand, thriller, travel writer, William Morrow Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Bad Boy by Peter Robinson
Bad Boy Peter Robinson William Morrow, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-0613-6295-8 Hardcover Murphy’s Law seems to apply to the premise behind this novel. After a well-earned vacation touring the U.S. Southwest and the wonders of LA and San Francisco, DI Banks finds, upon his return to Eastvale, that an old friend has died after police tasered him, [...]
November 27, 2010
Tags: British, mystery, police procedural, William Morrow Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: From the Dead by Mark Billingham
From the Dead Mark Billingham Little, Brown, August 2010 ISBN: 978-1-4087-0075-4 Hardcover [This book is presently available only in/through the UK and Canada, not available in the US at this time] D.I Tom Thorne is one among the outstanding protagonists in the crime genre who doggedly solve murders and other mysteries while questioning their own [...]
November 13, 2010
Tags: British, Brown, Little, police procedural Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Death Message by Mark Billingham
Death Message Mark Billingham Avon, October 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-143277-4 Mass Market Paperback It’s not often that a homicide detective receives a picture of a victim prior to the murder, but that’s exactly what happens to TomThorne in this latest volume in the series, when his cell phone rings and he opens it to see a [...]
October 13, 2010
Tags: Avon, British, mystery, police procedural Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Fever of the Bone by Val McDermid
Fever of the Bone Val McDermid Harper Paperbacks, September 2010 ISBN No.978-0-06-198648-2 Trade Paperback When teenager Jennifer Maidment is murdered and mutilated, Tony Hill, criminal profiler, is called to Worcester to help with the case. It is revealed that Jennifer and her friends are fans of the social network Rigmarole. Jennifer left her friend to [...]
September 20, 2010
Tags: British, Harper, mystery, police procedural Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley
The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag Alan Bradley Read by Jayne Entwistle Random House Audio, March 2010 ISBN 0307576418 Unabridged Audio Book Flavia de Luce, an eleven-year-old with a near-genius mind, apparently has way too much time, and too much curiosity, for a child who is benignly neglected by her father and ignored, at [...]
May 17, 2010
Tags: audio, British, humor, mystery, post-WWII historical, Random House Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley
The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag Alan Bradley Random House, March 2010 ISBN 9780385342315 Hardcover Flavia de Luce is an odd duck, there’s just no getting around that. She’s odd in ways that speak to the insecure in most people: she contemplates her funeral, she believes that nobody cares for her, she is curious [...]
March 14, 2010
Tags: British, mystery, post-WWII historical, Random House Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: A Country Affair by Rebecca Shaw
A Country Affair Rebecca Shaw Three Rivers Press, 2006 ISBN 1400098203 Trade Paperback I’m an addict when it comes to the heartwarming sort of small town story, the kind that involves a large cast of characters living unremarkable lives but you can’t help wanting to know what’s going to happen next. You know the kind [...]
November 24, 2009
Tags: British, comfort fiction, general fiction, Three Rivers Press Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
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