Book Reviews: Kind of Blue by Miles Corwin, Junkyard Dogs by Craig Johnson and Blowback by Peter May
Kind of Blue Miles Corwin Oceanview Publishing, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-60809-007-5 Hardcover The author, a former crime reporter for the L.A. Times, has published three non-fiction books prior to this, his first novel. Â It certainly reflects his deep knowledge of crime and police procedure, and certainly reflects all the past works that have preceded this effort, [...]
October 3, 2011
Tags: cold case, forensic scientist, France, Los Angeles, mystery, Oceanview Publishing, Penguin, Poisoned Pen Press, police procedural, Scottish professor, sheriff, Wyoming Posted in: Full Reviews 
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Book Review: An Impartial Witness by Charles Todd
An Impartial Witness Charles Todd William Morrow, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-179178-9 Hardcover A chance sighting while in Waterloo Station leads Bess Crawford into a long investigation.  She recognizes a woman, crying as a Captain leaves to catch a train to the front during World War I.  The woman, the wife of one of Bess’ patients, whose [...]
May 4, 2011
Tags: England, France, historical, mystery, William Morrow, WWI Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: 13, rue Thérèse by Elena Mauli Shapiro
13, rue Thérèse Elena Mauli Shapiro Reagan Arthur Books, February 2011 ISBN 9780316083287 Hardcover These gloves haunt you. But let us not be bothered with that now. Let us not slip onto our own body these accoutrements of the dead. Such a gesture would be a bit strange, a bit unsettling. Such a gesture is [...]
April 30, 2011
Tags: contemporary, France, general fiction, historical, Reagan Arthur Books, WWI and later Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Murder in Montmartre by Cara Black
Murder in Montmartre Cara Black Soho Press, 2006 ISBN 1569474109 Hardcover (ARC) Also available in trade paperback On the wide, shop-lined Boulevard de Clichy by the Moulin Rouge, its garish neon now dark, plumes of bus exhaust spiraled into the air. A straggling demonstration blocked the street as loudspeakers shouted, “Corsica for Corsicans!” Waiting passengers [...]
March 28, 2011
Tags: Corsican separatist movement, France, mystery, Paris neighborhood, private detective, Soho Press Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
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Queen of the Night J.A. Jance William Morrow & Company, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-123924-3 Hardcover With a bow [by dedicating the book] to the late Tony Hillerman, who was a master at the genre of this novel (and the predecessors in the saga of the Walker family), J.A. Jance has written a murder mystery surrounded by [...]
January 23, 2011
Tags: Arizona, Britain, California, Colorado, Dutton, France, Harper Ecco, international espionage, mystery, Native Americans, police procedural, psychologist, retired detective, Russia, United States, William Morrow Posted in: Full Reviews One Comment
Book Review: Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker
Bruno, Chief of Police Martin Walker Vintage Books, 2010 Originally published in the UK in 2008 by Quercus Books ISBN 9780307454690 Trade Paperback Suddenly Bruno noticed something odd. After every previous parade, whether it was for the eighth of May, or the eighteenth of June, when de Gaulle launched Free France, or the fourteenth of [...]
January 9, 2011
Tags: France, mystery, police procedural, Vintage Books Posted in: Full Reviews One Comment
Book Review: The Dark Vineyard by Martin Walker
The Dark Vineyard Martin Walker Knopf Publishing Group, July 2010 ISBN: 978-0-307-27018-4 Hardcover It is difficult to say whether the fictional town of Saint-Denis or its sole policeman, Benoit “Bruno” Courreges, is more charming, but certainly this novel is simply a delight. Â It is a murder-mystery wrapped up in the French countryside surrounded by grape [...]
September 19, 2010
Tags: France, Knopf, mystery, police procedural, rural village, wine Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
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