Book Reviews: Long Gone by Alafair Burke, Heaven’s Fire by Sandra Balzo, and A Dark Dividing by Sarah Rayne
Long Gone Alafair Burke Harper, June 2011 ISBN No. 978-0061999185 Hardcover Alice Humphrey’s chance meeting with Drew Campbell at first glance appears to be a lucky break. Alice is unemployed and Drew Campbell offers her a chance to run a gallery and be her own boss. Alice’s father is a famous Hollywood producer and Alice [...]
February 20, 2012
Tags: art gallery, ATF investigator, child pornography, conjoined twins, ebook, England, FBI agent, Felony & Mayhem, fireworks, Harper, journalist, missing child, mystery, photographer, police procedural, psychological suspense, Self-published, TV producer Posted in: Full Reviews 
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Book Review: Murder of the Bride by C.S. Challinor
Murder of the Bride (Rex Graves Mystery Series Book #5) C.S. Challinor Midnight Ink, March 2012 ISBN 978-0-7387-2335-8 Trade Paperback (E-ARC) Rex Graves is back, this time visiting his fiancee, Helen d’Arcy, so they can attend the wedding in Aston-on-Trent of one of her former students. Polly is very pregnant and her groom, Timmy, looks [...]
February 13, 2012
Tags: barrister, country home, England, Midnight Ink, mystery, traditional Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews: The Cypress House by Michael Koryta, The Attenbury Emeralds by Jill Paton Walsh, and On Borrowed Time by David Rosenfelt
The Cypress House Michael Koryta Little, Brown and Company, February 2011 ISBN: 978-0-316-05372-3 Hardcover Death and corruption haunt this tale about a World War I veteran during the Depression who has a unique ability to see whether a person faces an imminent demise because of a trace of smoke in his/her eyes. Arlen Wagner in [...]
January 19, 2012
Tags: 1921, 1930's Florida, 1950's, aristocracy, bully sheriff, corrupt judge, drug smuggling, England, Great Depression, historical, hurricane, journalist, Little Brown and Company, mind experiments, Minotaur Books, mystery, New York, novelist detective, police procedural, supernatural, suspense, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review Roundup by Gloria Feit
Known to Evil Walter Mosley NAL, February 2011 ISBN: 978-0-451-23213-7 Trade Paperback Leonid Trotter McGill is a 54-year-old African-American man, an amateur boxer known to have had his “finger in every dishonest business in the city” including being a fixer for the mob, who is trying to turn his life around, now working as a [...]
January 11, 2012
Tags: Amy Einhorn Books, Atlantic Monthly Press, bank robbery, England, FBI agents, Little Brown, magazine journalist, Michigan, Minotaur, mystery, NAL, New York, noir, police procedural, private detective, profiler, psychologist, Putnam, serial killer, supernatural, thriller, Washington DC Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews Galore by Ted Feit
The House at Sea’s End Elly Griffiths Quercus, January 2011 ISBN: 978-1-84916-367-5 Hardcover [It should perhaps be noted that this review is based on the UK and Canada edition; the US edition is now available in the US from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt] As the book opens Kate, the baby born to Ruth Galloway, the forensic [...]
January 2, 2012
Tags: Alfred A. Knopf, Atlantic Monthly Press, Bantam Press, Cold War espionage, England, forensic archaeologist, Harper, hostage, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, human organ theft, humor, internet porn, marijuana, missing person, mystery, noir, police procedural, Quercus, series finale, Sweden, US Marshal, William Morrow, WWII Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
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 No Comments
Book Review: Sex and the Kitty by Nancy the Cat
Sex and the Kitty Nancy the Cat Plume Books, September 2011 ISBN 978-0452-29742-5 Trade Paperback (e-ARC) Nancy’s first memoir—she’ll certainly need more as she gets older and, as she says, she’s leaving the door open for possible sequels—sets the record straight on her birth and early life in a small town as she awaits her [...]
December 7, 2011
Tags: autobiography, cats, England, general fiction, humor Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews 2 Comments
Book Review: Dead Like You by Peter James
Dead Like You Peter James Minotaur Books, September 2011 ISBN 978-0312643201 Trade Paperback Settle in for a lengthy read from an international bestselling author. Go along with a British investigator as he follows a trail of clues to track down a serial rapist. Learn about past relationships and how they affect present and future ones. [...]
November 21, 2011
Tags: cold case, England, Minotaur Books, mystery, police procedural, serial rapist, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews: The Woodcutter by Reginald Hill, The Dog Sox by Russell Hill and Negative Image by Vicki Delany
The Woodcutter Reginald Hill Harper, August2011 ISBN No. 978-0062060747 Hardcover Wilford Hadda began life as the son of a Cumbrian woodcutter on the Ulphingstone estate. Sir Leon Ulphingstone gave him the nickname of Wolf. At one stage in his life, Wolf Hadda held the title Sir Wilford Hadda. Reginald Hill takes the reader through the [...]
November 2, 2011
Tags: baseball, British Columbia, Caravel Books, England, general fiction, Harper, Mounties, mystery, Poisoned Pen Press, police procedural, psychological thriller, stalker Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews: Cold Vengeance by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child and Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
Cold Vengeance (Special Agent Pendergast) Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Grand Central Publishing, August 2011 ISBN No. 978-0-446-55498-5 Hardcover Pendergast has discovered that Helen, his wife, was murdered and now he seeks revenge. Judson Esterhazy, Helen’s brother, is equally determined that Pendergast be stopped from investigating Helen’s death and if the only way to stop [...]
October 24, 2011
Tags: adoption, England, FBI, Grand Central Publishing, Little Brown and Company, Louisiana, mystery, New York, private investigator, Scotland, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
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