Book Reviews x 5 by Ted Feit
Electric Barracuda Tim Dorsey Wm. Morrow, January 2011 ISBN: 978-0-061-87689-9 Hardcover Attempting to review a Serge A. Storm novel is no small chore, it is a monumental task, because there is no possible way to provide even a modicum of a synopsis. But one can always provide one conclusion, and this 13th novel in the [...]
December 15, 2011
Tags: California, criminal informant, criminal protagonist, drugs, Dutton, England, Florida, forensic archaeologist, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, humor, Knopf, mystery, noir, Norway, police procedural, political corruption, prison life, profiler, serial killer, SilverOak/Sterling, Sweden, thriller, William Morrow Posted in: Full Reviews 
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Book Reviews: The Sentry by Robert Crais, Stettin Station by David Downing and Damage by John Lescroart
The Sentry Robert Crais Putnam, January 2011 ISBN: 978-0-399-15707-3 Hardcover There are many larger-than-life, hard-boiled superheroes, some more believable than others. Then there is Joe Pike: A strong, contemplative, quiet, unassuming protagonist. And his sorrowful and anguished side-kick, PI Elvis Cole, adds a more human touch. Together, they make a great team, and in this, [...]
November 26, 2011
Tags: 1941 Berlin, California, district attorney, drug wars, Dutton, historical, journalist, mystery, police procedural, private investigator, Putnam, San Francisco, Soho Press, thriller, war intelligence, World War II Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Murder Half-Baked by Kathleen Delaney
Murder Half-Baked Kathleen Delaney Camel Press, May 2011 ISBN 978-1-60381-828-5 Trade Paperback Real estate agent Ellen McKenzie is in the midst of preparations for her wedding to Dan Dunham, the local police chief, and has to contend with the horror of a wedding dress, ruffled hoopskirt and all, her mother has sent to this forty-something [...]
November 22, 2011
Tags: California, cozy, domestic violence, mystery, real estate agent, softboiled Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews: Messages by Weyman Jones, Angel Lost by F. M. Meredith and Hell To Pay by Wendy Corsi Staub
Messages Weyman Jones Five Star Publishing, 2010 ISBN No. 978-1-59414-879-8 Hardcover Mike Lyons cannot believe that his mother is guilty of murder but a jury says she killed her lover, Alex Reed. He is so convinced that he decides that he will prove her innocence. Mike’s mother owned a company called Power Meetings. Alex worked [...]
November 12, 2011
Tags: Avon Books, California, Caribbean, Dark Oak Mysteries, decoy, Five Star Publishing, mystery, New York, police procedural, stalker, suspense, thriller, voyeur Posted in: Full Reviews One Comment
Book Review: Edited for Death by Michele Drier
Edited for Death Michele Drier Mainly Murder Press, October 2011 ISBN 978-0-9836823-1-8 Trade Paperback The recent death of a US Senator, also a World War II hero, leads Amy Hobbes, manager of a small-town newspaper, to send her reporter, Clarice, to the Senator’s nearby hometown on assignment. Marshalltown, in Northern California, is a survivor of [...]
November 7, 2011
Tags: California, Germany, holocaust history, journalist, Mainly Murder Press, mystery Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott—and a Contest Winner!
Imperfect Birds Anne Lamott Riverhead Books, 2011 ISBN 978-1-59448-504-6 Trade Paperback Anne Lamott can be counted on to deliver an honest, engaging read. Imperfect Birds starts as a clumsy and inauthentic tale, but stumbles along, until it reaches a believable, loping and smooth gait. I continued to read past my initial judgment and ennui, only [...]
September 22, 2011
Tags: addictions, California, family relationships, general fiction, Riverhead Books, troubled teen Posted in: Contests/Giveaways, Full Reviews One Comment
Book Review: County Line by Bill Cameron
County Line Bill Cameron Tyrus Books, June 2011 ISBN No. 9781935562351 Hardcover Also available in trade paperback Skin Kadash returns home after spending a month in a retreat called Last Homely House. Last Homely House is a bed and breakfast where Skin has been recuperating from a near-fatal gunshot wound. Skin has been following doctor’s [...]
August 29, 2011
Tags: California, mystery, Ohio, Oregon, retired cop, suspense, Tyrus Books Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Fourth Day by Zoe Sharp
Fourth Day Zoe Sharp Pegasus Books, 2011 ISBN: 978-1-6059-8121-5 Hardcover Fourth Day is the name of a once subversive organization formed in the 1960′s and known for its cult-like origins, but claiming to work wonders especially with vulnerable adolescents [and others] with delinquency and drug addiction problems. It has more recently been headed by one [...]
August 25, 2011
Tags: California, close protection, cults, mystery, Pegasus Books, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Reversal by Michael Connelly
The Reversal Michael Connelly Little, Brown, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-316-06948-9 Hardcover The book’s title has a double meaning: the “Lincoln Lawyer,” Mickey Haller, normally a defense attorney, is asked in this instance to act as an independent prosecutor in a 1986 case that the higher court has reversed and sent back for retrial. The defendant was [...]
June 18, 2011
Tags: California, legal thriller, Little Brown, mystery, police procedural Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
A Gloria Feit Book Review Trio
Innocent Monsters Reed Farrel Coleman Tyrus Books, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-935562-20-7 Hardcover A predominant theme of this wonderful new novel by Reed Farrel Coleman is guilt, something of which there is more than enough to go around, and which plagues several of the characters, not least of whom is the protagonist, Moe Prager. Moe [as are [...]
June 1, 2011
Tags: adult abduction, amnesia, AuthorHouse, California, child abduction, Minotaur, mystery, New York, New York Chinatown, private investigator, suspense, thriller, Tyrus Books Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
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