Book Reviews: Silent Mercy by Linda Fairstein, Live Wire by Harlan Coben, Rizzo’s Fire by Lou Manfredo, Afraid of the Dark by James Grippando, and Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
Silent Mercy Linda Fairstein Dutton, March 2011 ISBN: 978-0-525-95202-2 Hardcover This deeply researched series highlighting New York landmarks featuring Alexandra Cooper and Mike Chapman takes the reader in a somewhat different direction from previous entries. This time the author tackles religion, albeit in a non-controversial manner. While New York continues to be the prime real [...]
February 19, 2012
Tags: Brooklyn, CIA, criminal defense attorney, Dutton, family issues, FBI, Guantanamo, Harper, Leeds, legal thriller, Little Brown, Miami, Minotaur Books, mystery, New York City, police procedural, private investigator, private security, public prosecutor, religion, serial killer Posted in: Full Reviews 
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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: Think Twice by Lisa Scottoline and Hollywood Hills by Joseph Wambaugh
Think Twice Lisa Scottoline St. Martin’s Press, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-312-38076-2 Trade Paperback First there was Cain and Abel. In this novel we have Bennie Rosato and her twin sister, Alice Connelly (they were separated at birth and raised by different mothers). Bennie grows up to be a highly successful Philadelphia lawyer, heading her own [...]
August 8, 2011
Tags: art theft, good vs. evil, identical twins, Little Brown, Los Angeles, mystery, police procedural, St. Martin's Press, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews One Comment
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: Tick Tock by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Tick Tock James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge Little Brown and Company, 2011 ISBN No. 978-0316037914 Hardcover (ARC) Mike Bennett, his ten children, his grandfather, Seamus, along with Mary Catherine, the children’s Irish nanny, head for Breezy Point in Queens to enjoy a two-week vacation. Mike’s wife is deceased and Seamus, who is a priest, and [...]
June 2, 2011
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Book Review: Toys by James Patterson & Neil McMahon
Toys James Patterson & Neil McMahon Little, Brown and Company, March 2011 ISBN No. 978-0-316-09736-9 Hardcover Toys moves the reader forward to the year 2061 where humans are referred to as skunks and the Elites are in charge. Hays Baker is an Elite. Although every Elite has special powers, Hays Baker seems to have received [...]
May 9, 2011
Tags: Little Brown, mystery, science fiction, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Terror of Living by Urban Waite
The Terror of Living Urban Waite Little, Brown and Company, 2011 ISBN No. 978-0316097895 Hardcover (ARC) Deputy Bobby Drake has returned to his hometown, Silver Lake, Washington, and is following in the footsteps of his father who was also a lawman. The difference is that Bobby’s father supplemented his income by dealing with illicit deliveries [...]
March 30, 2011
Tags: Little Brown, mountain chase, mystery, police procedural, smuggling, thriller, Washington Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Cypress House by Michael Koryta
The Cypress House Michael Koryta Little, Brown and Company, January 2011 ISBN 978-0316053723 Hardcover Imagine looking at a whole group of people and seeing a trace of smoke in all their eyes and knowing that that they will all be dead soon. This is what Arlen Wagner experienced one night on a Florida train. This [...]
February 9, 2011
Tags: Little Brown, mystery, supernatural, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Men and Dogs by Katie Crouch
Men and Dogs Katie Crouch Little, Brown and Company, 2010 ISBN 0316002135 Hardcover (ARC) Both people and place serve in characters in this mystery which moves with the elegance and charm of a Southern drawl. As teenagers, Hannah and Palmer lost their father, Dr. Buzz Legare in a boating accident. While their Mom, Daisy, was [...]
March 17, 2010
Tags: Charleston, Little Brown, mystery Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
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