Book Reviews: Dead Man’s Chest by Kerry Greenwood, Murder in Passy by Cara Black, and Guilt by Association by Marcia Clark
Dead Man’s Chest Kerry Greenwood Poisoned Pen Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-59508-797-3 Hardcover Also available in trade paperback The Hon. Phryne Fisher makes her 16th appearance in this novel wherein she deservedly takes her entourage, including daughters Ruth and Jane, companion Dot, and pet Molly, on a vacation to the Australian coastal resort of Queenscliff where [...]
October 12, 2011
Tags: Australia, Basque independence, historical, legal thriller, Los Angeles, Mulholland Books, mystery, Paris, pirates, Poisoned Pen Press, private investigator, smuggling, Soho Crime Posted in: Full Reviews 
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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. Â 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 Ted Feit-Style
Iron River T. Jefferson Parker NAL, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-451-23242-7 Trade Paperback, A temporary assignment to an ATFE task force for Deputy sheriff Charlie Parker to stem the tide of illegal arms and money flowing across the U.S.-Mexican border gives rise to eerie insights into law enforcement from San Diego to Corpus Christie and, in addition, [...]
July 9, 2011
Tags: death penalty, Doubleday, drug and gun trade, England, forensics, gang crime, Grove Press, legal thriller, Minotaur, mystery, NAL, noir, Northern Ireland, police procedural, Soho Crime, Texas, US-Mexico border, Vermont Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Reversal by Michael Connelly
The Reversal Michael Connelly Little, Brown, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-316-06948-9 Hardcover The book’s title has a double meaning:  the “Lincoln Lawyer,” Mickey Haller, normally a defense attorney, is asked in this instance to act as an independent prosecutor in a 1986 case that the higher court has reversed and sent back for retrial.  The defendant was [...]
June 18, 2011
Tags: California, legal thriller, Little Brown, mystery, police procedural Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Overkill by Joseph Teller
Overkill Joseph Teller MIRA Books, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-7783-2776-9 Mass Market Paperback To say that Harrison J. Walker [known to one and all as “Jaywalker”: “he’d dropped the Harrison part as too pretentious and rejected Harry as too Lower East Side”], a member of the New York criminal bar, likes a challenge is a vast understatement. [...]
December 26, 2010
Tags: legal thriller, Mira, mystery Posted in: Full Reviews 2 Comments
Book Review: The Price of Life by Greg McCarthy
The Price of Life Greg McCarthy Otherworld Publications, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9826494-5-9 Hardcover This novel contains many of the pluses and minuses typical of a first novel.  It has the germ of a good idea for a plot, many interesting observations, and excellent expert information based on the author’s background.  The author has practiced law in [...]
December 18, 2010
Tags: legal thriller, medical, mystery, Otherworld Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: One Man’s Paradise by Douglas Corleone
One Man’s Paradise Douglas Corleone Minotaur Books, April 2010 ISBN 0312611587 Hardcover Attorney Kevin Corvelli totally botched his last case in New York. Â It was a murder case, and he was more interested in the media attention than in doing the work he needed to do to win the case. Â He lost the case. Â His [...]
May 8, 2010
Tags: Hawaii, legal thriller, Minotaur, mystery Posted in: Full Reviews 4 Comments
Book Review: Among Thieves by David Hosp
Among Thieves David Hosp Grand Central Publishing, January 2010 ISBN 0446580155 Hardcover (ARC) Thefts of 300 million dollars worth of paintings from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Art Museum in 1990 literally left empty frames in the galleries and puzzled criminologists and mystery lovers for years. Author and attorney David Hosp posits a theory about this [...]
January 8, 2010
Tags: art theft, Granbd Central, legal thriller, mystery Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Entombed by Linda Fairstein
Entombed Linda Fairstein Simon & Schuster Audio, 2005 ISBN 0743538455 Abridged Audio Book Read by Blair Brown Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper and her detective partners, Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, are involved in the case of the Silk Stocking serial rapist. At the same time, workers have uncovered a body entombed behind a [...]
December 28, 2009
Tags: audio book, legal thriller, mystery, police procedural, Simon & Schuster Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews One Comment
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