Book Review: Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley
Death of the Mantis: A Detective Kubu Mystery Michael Stanley Harper, September 2011 ISBN No. 978-0062000378 Trade Paperback David “Kubu” Bengu is assistant superintendent in the Botswana Criminal Investigation Department. David received the nickname of Kubu a long time ago and it stuck. Kubu means Jolly Hippo and David is large, does enjoy his food, [...]
August 18, 2011
Tags: Botswana, Harper, mystery, police procedural Posted in: Full Reviews 
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A Winning Reader and Book Reviews: Supreme Justice by Phillip Margolin and Coming Back by Marcia Muller
Congratulations to Iris Haltom, winner of a signed copy of Hard Spell by Justin Gustainis! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Supreme Justice Phillip Margolin Harper, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-192652-5 Mass Market Paperback What does an author do when he “falls in love” with characters in a novel he completed? Why he just writes another using them again. But the characters [...]
August 4, 2011
Tags: attorney, disability, FBI agent, Grand Central Publishing, Harper, mystery, political thriller, private investigator, San Francisco, Washington DC Posted in: Contests/Giveaways, Full Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews: This Body of Death by Elizabeth George and Law of Attraction by Allison Leotta
This Body of Death Elizabeth George Harper, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-116091-2 Mass Market Paperback In the 16th Inspector Lynley novel, we find him at home after having completed his wanderings around Cornwall trying to find peace following the murder of his wife. Still undecided as to what to do in the future, he is approached by [...]
July 30, 2011
Tags: domestic abuse, England, Harper, legal thriller, mystery, police procedural, Touchstone, Washington DC Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews: Death Echo by Elizabeth Lowell and Money to Burn by James Grippando
Death Echo Elizabeth Lowell Avon, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-16442-7 Mass Market Paperback International intrigue is at the heart of the plot which joins Emma Cross, former CIA operative and now with St. Kilda’s Consulting, and Mackenzie Durand, former Special Ops leader, the only survivor of his team in its last mission. Now a transit captain, he [...]
July 27, 2011
Tags: Avon, financial thriller, Harper, identity theft, international thriller, mystery, nautical, romantic suspense, security consulting, stock market, terrorism, US & Canada Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Bone Thief by Jefferson Bass
The Bone Thief A Body Farm Novel Jefferson Bass Harper, March 2011 ISBN No. 978-0061284779 Mass Market Paperback When Burton DeVreiss, Attorney, contacted Dr. Bill Brockton it was to inform Brockton that he had obtained an order to exhume the body of Trey Willoughby to obtain a DNA sample to be used as proof of [...]
May 3, 2011
Tags: Body Farm, forensic anthropologist, Harper, mystery, thriller 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. 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: Fever of the Bone by Val McDermid
Fever of the Bone Val McDermid Harper, 2010 ISBN 978-006198648-2 Trade Paperback Val McDermid‘s latest Carol Jordan/Tony Hill novel more than lives up to the expectations raised by the previous books in the series. DCI Carol Jordan now heads up her own elite Major Incident Team, handling current as well as cold cases, but the [...]
February 26, 2011
Tags: British, criminal profiler, Harper, mystery, police procedural, psychologist Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews: A Ted Feit Roundup
The Steam Pig James McClure Soho Crime, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-56947-652-9 Trade Paperback Before his death four years ago, the author wrote eight novels in this series, featuring a white CID lieutenant, Tromp Kramer, and his black assistant, Sgt. Zondi. The setting for The Steam Pig was apartheid South Africa, and the descriptions of that society [...]
December 30, 2010
Tags: apartheid, Britain, domestic abuse, Harper, Los Angeles, mystery, police procedural, Soho Crime, South Africa, William Morrow Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Ghost Country by Patrick Lee
Ghost Country Patrick Lee Harper, January 2011 ISBN 0061584444 Mass Market Paperback (ARC) Paige Campbell has just left the White House when she and her Tangent colleagues are attacked and everyone is killed, everyone except Paige. She has been kidnapped but, before being taken, she manages to make a desperate call to Bethany Stewart, another [...]
December 29, 2010
Tags: Harper, mystery, science fiction, suspense, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews 2 Comments
Book Review: The Bad Book Affair by Ian Sansom
The Bad Book Affair Ian Sansom Harper Paperbacks, 2010 ISBN 0061452017 Trade Paperback Amateur sleuth Israel Armstrong is a Jewish vegetarian mobile librarian from Northern London, now living on the northernmost coast “of the north of the north” of Northern Ireland. He allows a 14-year-old girl to borrow a “bad book” (American Pastoral by Philip [...]
December 6, 2010
Tags: Harper, humor, mystery, Northern Ireland Posted in: Full Reviews, Guest Reviews No Comments
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