Book Reviews: The Kingdom of Dog by Neil S. Plakcy, A Drop of the Hard Stuff by Lawrence Block and Among the Departed by Vicki Delany
The Kingdom of Dog A Golden Retriever Mystery Neil S. Plakcy Kindle Edition, March 2011 Also available in other ebook formats Let me introduce myself. My name is Rochester and I am a Golden Retriever. For those of you who read about me in the book In Dog We Trust, it is good to see [...]
November 14, 2011
Tags: 12-Steps, AA, academic, animal sleuth, Canada, ebook, ex-convict, missing persons, Mounties, Mulholland Books, mystery, New York, Poisoned Pen Press, police procedural, private investigator, Self-published, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews 
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Book Reviews: Outwitting Trolls by William G. Tapply, Gideon’s War by Howard Gordon, and The Whisperers by John Connolly
Outwitting Trolls William G. Tapply Minotaur Books, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-312-53127-0 Hardcover Unfortunately, this is the final Brady Coyne novel.  It was completed shortly before William G. Tapply’s death last year.  He left behind a substantial body of work, including 25 books in the Brady Coyne series alone.  Mr. Tapply was a masterful storyteller.  Reading his [...]
August 22, 2011
Tags: Boston, Canada, international terrorism, legal suspense, Maine, Minotaur Books, mystery, Pocket Books, political thriller, private detective, Southeast Asia, supernatural, Touchstone, Washington DC Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Ted Feit’s Book Review Roundup
Burn Nevada Barr Minotaur Books, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-312-61456-0 Hardcover It is likely that fans of the Anna Pigeon series might be put off by several aspects of this novel. Â To begin with, it takes place in the urban setting of New Orleans rather than the accustomed [for this series] wide open spaces of a national [...]
March 31, 2011
Tags: Canada, Cleveland, forensic scientist, Harper, horse racing, Mafia, medium-boiled, Minotaur, mystery, New Orleans, Penguin, police procedural, RendezVous Crime, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Sicily, suspense Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Taken by Inger Ash Wolfe
The Taken Inger Ash Wolfe Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-15-101353-1522-1 Hardcover In the debut novel in this series, The Calling, we learned that DI Hazel Micallef suffered a severe back injury. Â In the interim between that time frame and this sequel she has undergone two operations and we find her flat on her back, [...]
January 29, 2011
Tags: Canada, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, mystery, police procedural Posted in: Full Reviews 2 Comments
Book Review: Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel
Half Brother Kenneth Oppel Scholastic Press, September 2010 ISBN 0545229251 Hardcover (ARC) Ben Tomlin, an only child, turns 13 years old when his parents move from Toronto to Victoria, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Dr. Richard Tomlin, Ben’s dad, is a behavioral psychologist and mother, Sarah, is working on her PhD. thesis. Ben and his dad traveled [...]
October 10, 2010
Tags: Canada, general fiction, human-animal communication, Scholastic Press, social issues, young adult Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Feit Book Reviews x 3
Still Missing Chevy Stevens St. Martin’s Press, July 2010 ISBN: 978-0-312-59567-8 Hardcover This is an interesting novel, despite its shortcomings: Â Basically the writing is uneven, and in many ways pretentious. Â A young woman, Annie Sullivan, a realtor on Vancouver Island, Canada, is abducted by a psycho and kept captive for a year, subjected to daily [...]
October 4, 2010
Tags: Britain, Canada, mystery, police procedural, Scribner, St. Martin's, suspense, thriller, Touchstone, US Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Master of Jalna by Mazo de la Roche
The Master of Jalna Mazo de la Roche Pan Books, Ltd., 1954 (first published in 1933) ISBN 0330202626 Mass Market Also available as a trade paperback re-issue from XYZ Publishing The Master of Jalna is the fourth by publication date, tenth by story chronology, of 16 novels spanning a hundred years from 1854 to 1954. [...]
August 16, 2010
Tags: Canada, family saga, general fiction, historical fiction, Pan Books Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
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