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 Review: In Desperation by Rick Mofina
In Desperation Rick Mofina Mira, 2011 ISBN No. 978-0778329480 Mass Market Paperback Jack Gannon is working on a story in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Jack is a journalist employed by Word Press Alliance.   Jack and Isabel Luna, a crime reporter for El Heralda, a family owned newspaper in Juarez, have just discovered a mother cradling her [...]
August 11, 2011
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Book Reviews–And Now It’s Gloria Feit’s Turn
So Cold the River Michael Koryta Back Bay Books, 2011 ISBN: 9780316053648 Trade Paperback Michael Koryta‘s latest novel* starts out innocently enough. Â Eric Shaw, in his recent former life an LA cinematographer before that career crashed and burned and now in his early thirties, has for the past two years lived in Chicago, trying to [...]
July 14, 2011
Tags: arson, Atlantic Monthly Press, Back Bay Books, Chicago, child abduction, cultural animosity, England, FBI, Forge, historical elements, Indiana, investigative reporter, Los Angeles, Minotaur Books, mystery, police procedural, prostitution, Quebec, Rhode Island, Russian mob, San Francisco, serial crimes, supernatural, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews One Comment
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. Â 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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