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 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 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. 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
A Contest Winner and Book Review: Hard Spell by Justin Gustainis
Congratulations to Terry Parrish, winner of a signed copy of Under the Dog Star by Sandra Parshall! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hard Spell Justin Gustainis Angry Robot Books, July 2011 ISBN 9780857661159 Mass Market Paperback Detective Stan Markowski and his partner, Karl Renfer, have been called out to a crime scene but it’s not your run of the [...]
September 6, 2011
Tags: Angry Robot Books, dark fantasy, hardboiled, mystery, noir, occult, police procedural, supernatural Posted in: Contests/Giveaways, Full Reviews, My Reviews One Comment
Book Reviews: The Shadow Woman by Ake Edwardson and Stranglehold by Ed Gorman
The Shadow Woman Ake Edwardson Translated by Per Carlsson Penguin Books Original, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-14-311794-0 Trade Paperback Slow and steady: Sweden’s youngest Detective Inspector seeks elusive clues in this slow, plodding police procedural about a murder victim that takes half the book to identify. Erik Winter, the dapper inspector who likes expensive clothing and cars, [...]
July 23, 2011
Tags: Minotaur Books, murder & blackmail, mystery, noir, Penguin Books, police procedural, political campaign, Sweden 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 Devil by Ken Bruen
The Devil Ken Bruen Minotaur Books, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-312-64696-7 Hardcover The Devil reads like a cocktail of Xanax and Jameson, with a side of Guiness. Maybe that’s because Jack Taylor absorbs that combination on practically every page of the novel. Describing a book by Ken Bruen is no easy task, and the smart thing would [...]
April 27, 2011
Tags: Ireland, Minotaur, mystery, noir, private investigator Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Take by Mike Dennis
The Take Mike Dennis L&L Dreamspell, 2010 ISBN No. 978-1603182768 Trade Paperback Eddie Ryan is a small time bookie and not a very good one at that. Eddie violated the first rule for bookies and that is never let the betting get too one-sided. World Series betting got Eddie in a world of trouble with [...]
April 6, 2011
Tags: Houston, L&L Dreamspell, mystery, New Orleans, noir Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Chicago Blues, edited by Libby Fischer Hellmann
Chicago Blues By Twenty-one Chicago Blues Artists Edited by Libby Fischer Hellmann Bleak House Books, October 2007 Hardcover Chicago, like most large cities anywhere in the world, is really two or more cities. It exists in different times and sometimes in different universes, even while occupying the same real estate. Daytimes the people of the [...]
January 3, 2011
Tags: anthology, Bleak House Books, mystery, noir Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Teeny Reviews X 3
The Telltale Turtle Joyce & Jim Lavene Midnight Ink, 2008 ISBN 0738712264 Trade Paperback Pet psychic Mary Catherine is a widow with panache and a successful radio show. Then, one day, she hears the thoughts of an animal in distress and discovers a turtle with the body of his murdered owner. Unfortunately, turtles don’t have [...]
February 22, 2010
Tags: animals, cozy, hardboiled, Midnight Ink, mystery, noir, nonfiction, reference, regional travel, Richmond Discoveries, Scribner Book Company Posted in: Teeny Reviews No Comments
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