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
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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. Â 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
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Book Review: Far Cry by John Harvey
Far Cry John Harvey Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010 ISBN No. 978-0-547-31594-2 Hardcover One of the biggest mistakes Ruth and Simon Pierce make is their decision to let their daughter Heather accompany her friend Kelly on a camping trip with Kelly’s family. The two girls decided to wander off by themselves and it was sometime before [...]
August 6, 2011
Tags: England, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, missing child, mystery, police procedural, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews
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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
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Book Review: Scent of the Missing by Susannah Charleson
Scent of the Missing Susannah Charleson Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010 ISBN 0547152442 Hardcover I, too, learned my first lessons about SAR dogs during the Oklahoma bombing. Friends were left in that building and I watched with a mixture of anticipation and dread as dogs and handlers dredged through the broken husk of a building looking [...]
June 12, 2010
Tags: animals, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, nonfiction Posted in: Full Reviews
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