Book Reviews: Fatal Error by J. A. Jance, Death Toll by Jim Kelly, Rag and Bone by James R. Benn, and Rogue by Frederick Ramsay
Fatal Error J.A. Jance Touchstone, February 2011 ISBN: 978-1-4165-6381-5 Hardcover The Ali Reynolds series usually has the protagonist solving some kind of mystery, and this one is no exception. However, the reader has to put up with a slow beginning, describing Ali’s experiences during her training at the Police Academy. When she completes the course, [...]
February 6, 2012
Tags: Arizona, Army investigator, CIA agent, historical, homicide detective, internet dating, Katyn Forest massacre, London, Minotaur Books, mystery, Norfolk England, Poisoned Pen Press, police procedural, police trainee, Polish officers, rural sheriff, Scotland Yard, Soho Press, Soviets, Touchstone, Virginia, Washington DC, WWII Posted in: Full Reviews 
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Book Review: Adrien English Mysteries by Josh Lanyon
Adrien English Mysteries Josh Lanyon Loose ID, May 2007 ISBN 978-1-59632-465-7 Ebook This edition contains the first two novels in the series, Fatal Shadows and A Dangerous Thing. Fatal Shadows introduces us to Adrien English, who lives above his Old Pasadena bookstore and is rudely awakened one morning by a pair of detectives, Chan and [...]
January 26, 2012
Tags: bookseller, California, GLBT, Loose ID, mystery, police procedural, romance, serial killer Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews One Comment
Book Review: Naked Heat by Richard Castle
Naked Heat Richard Castle Hyperion, April 2011 ISBN 9780786891368 Mass Market Paperback “All right, fellas, I’ve got my first odd sock.” The detective’s approach to a crime scene, even one in this much disarray, was to simplify her field of view. She pared everything down to getting inside the logic of the life that was [...]
January 25, 2012
Tags: fictional author, Hyperion, mystery, New York, police procedural, TV show Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews: Vanish by Tess Gerritsen and Vanish In Plain Sight by Marta Perry
Vanish Tess Gerritsen Ballantine Books, 2006 ISBN 0345476980 Mass Market Paperback Medical Examiner Dr. Maura Isles receives a big shock when the Jane Doe in her morgue suddenly opens her eyes. Jane Doe is rushed to the hospital but before her identity can be discovered, she shoots a security guard and seizes hostages. One of [...]
January 21, 2012
Tags: Amish, Ballantine Books, book illustrator, Boston, FBI, Harlequin Books, hostage, medical examiner, mystery, Pennsylvania, police procedural, romantic suspense Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews: The Cypress House by Michael Koryta, The Attenbury Emeralds by Jill Paton Walsh, and On Borrowed Time by David Rosenfelt
The Cypress House Michael Koryta Little, Brown and Company, February 2011 ISBN: 978-0-316-05372-3 Hardcover Death and corruption haunt this tale about a World War I veteran during the Depression who has a unique ability to see whether a person faces an imminent demise because of a trace of smoke in his/her eyes. Arlen Wagner in [...]
January 19, 2012
Tags: 1921, 1930's Florida, 1950's, aristocracy, bully sheriff, corrupt judge, drug smuggling, England, Great Depression, historical, hurricane, journalist, Little Brown and Company, mind experiments, Minotaur Books, mystery, New York, novelist detective, police procedural, supernatural, suspense, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Hollow House by Janis Patterson
The Hollow House Janis Patterson Carina Press/Harlequin, November 2011 ISBN 978-1-4268-9261-5 Ebook In 1919 Denver, a young woman from the East is in financial straits and must find a way to support herself. Choices are limited for women at that time so Geraldine Brunton takes a position as companion to an elderly widow whose wealth [...]
January 18, 2012
Tags: 1919 Denver, Carina Press/Harlequin, cozy, historical, mystery, police procedural Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews 2 Comments
Book Review: Open Season by Maryann Miller
Open Season Maryann Miller Five Star, December 2010 ISBN 9781594149153o Hardcover One white cop struggling to get back on the job after a drug operation gone bad. One black cop, new to homicide, struggling with a racist family and her own prejudice. A city in panic and the police force’s hierarchy bearing down on an [...]
January 16, 2012
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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 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 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
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