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 
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Book Review Trio by Patricia E. Reid
The Ridge Michael Koryta Little, Brown and Company, June 2011 ISBN No. 978-0316053662 Hardcover Chief Deputy Kevin Kimble is making an early morning drive when he receives a very strange and disturbing phone call. The call is from Wyatt French one of the stranger residents of Kimble’s county. Wyatt lives on a hilltop known as [...]
January 7, 2012
Tags: big cat sanctuary, Connecticut, crime reporter, FBI, journalist, Kentucky, Little Brown and Company, Mira, mystery, Poisoned Pen Press, police procedural, racecar driver, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Affair by Lee Child
The Affair Lee Child Delacorte Press, September 2011 ISBN 9780385344326 Hardcover Jack Reacher fans celebrate! Step back in time to read the case that separated the man from the military. Uncover secrets and lies and do so in the unique Child style we’ve come to expect. Reacher is the intelligent, tough guy with Sherlock Holmes [...]
January 5, 2012
Tags: Delacorte Press, humor, military police, Mississippi, mystery, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
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 No Comments
Book Reviews x 4 by Patricia E. Reid
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, There’s A Body In The Car Fran Rizer Bella Rosa Books, January 2011 ISBN No. 978-1933523941 Trade Paperback There is never a dull moment in Callie Parrish’s life. Callie is employed by Middleton Mortuary. Her job title is mortuary cosmetologist but Callie also answers the phone, talks to clients and does [...]
December 29, 2011
Tags: 1786 Ireland, anxiety disorders, Bella Rosa Books, Berkley Prime Crime, California, governess, historical, humor, Iceland, kidnapping, kidnapping & extortion expert, mortuary cosmetologist, mystery, Oceanview Publishing, Perseverance Press, political thriller, radio talk show host, South Carolina, suspense Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Mercury’s Rise by Ann Parker
Mercury’s Rise Ann Parker Poisoned Pen Press, November 2011 ISBN #987-1590580963-2 Trade paperback (also available in hardcover) I love a good historical, and if it’s an American historical—all the better. I am very pleased to say that this is the best historical I’ve read all year. The fourth in the Silver Rush Series set in [...]
December 28, 2011
Tags: 1880 Colorado, health resort, historical, mystery, Poisoned Pen Press Posted in: Full Reviews, Guest Reviews One Comment
Book Review: Death Along the Spirit Road by C. M. Wendelboe
Death Along the Spirit Road C. M. Wendelboe Berkley Prime Crime, March 2011 ISBN 978-0-425-24002-1 Trade Paperback FBI agent Manny Tanno has been called to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to solve the murder of Jason Red Cloud, a Lakota Sioux land developer. The investigation puts him right back where he began his career in [...]
December 26, 2011
Tags: FBI agent, Lakota Sioux, land developer, mystery, Native American, reservation, South Dakota Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Just Deserts by Jinx Schwartz
Just Deserts Jinx Schwartz Self-published, October 2011 Ebook available on Nook, Kindle and elsewhere Needing some ready cash to get her beloved boat bottom fixed, Hetta takes a new job at a copper mine close to the Arizona border in Cananea,Mexico. In Hetta’s words, “And, presto change, I was off on another adventure, and this [...]
December 22, 2011
Tags: humor, Mexico, mystery, nautical, Self-published Posted in: Full Reviews, Guest Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews: Scared to Death by Wendy Corsi Staub, The Nomination by William G. Tapply and Agent X by Noah Boyd
Scared to Death Wendy Corsi Staub Avon, January 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-18950-7-4 Mass Market Paperback The first murder in Wendy Corsi Staub’s newest thriller occurs on page 7, and the suspense hardly lets up from that point on. Marin Quinn gave up her newborn son at the insistence of her husband, Garvey Quinn.  Elsa Cavalon adopted [...]
December 17, 2011
Tags: Avon, Boston, FBI, Manhattan, missing child, mystery, political suspense, private detective, Skyhorse Publishing, Supreme Court, suspense, treason, William Morrow Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
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 No Comments
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