Book Review: The Cleveland Creep by Les Roberts
The Cleveland Creep Les Roberts Gray & Company Publishers, May 2011 ISBN 9781598510713 Hardcover Cleveland’s favorite private investigator is back for another riveting case. Milan Jacovich explores the northeast Ohio metropolis and winds up gaining a new friend while losing a few others. Still, he keeps his sense of humor and salute to the city [...]
January 30, 2012
Tags: Cleveland, Gray & Company Publishers, missing person, mystery, private detective 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: 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: Negative Image by Vicki Delany, Though Not Dead by Dana Stabenow, and Bloodline by Mark Billingham
Negative Image Vicki Delany Poisoned Pen Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-59508-790-4 Trade Paperback Also available in hardcover With each entry in the Constable Molly Smith-Trafalgar City Police Sergeant John Winters series, the plots become more sophisticated, the character development deeper, and the relationships more complicated. In this, the fourth novel in the mystery series, all these [...]
August 31, 2011
Tags: Alaska, Aleut, British Columbia Canada, London, Mounties, Mulholland Books, mystery, Poisoned Pen Press, police procedural, private detective, serial killer Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews: Outwitting Trolls by William G. Tapply, Gideon’s War by Howard Gordon, and The Whisperers by John Connolly
Outwitting Trolls William G. Tapply Minotaur Books, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-312-53127-0 Hardcover Unfortunately, this is the final Brady Coyne novel.  It was completed shortly before William G. Tapply’s death last year.  He left behind a substantial body of work, including 25 books in the Brady Coyne series alone.  Mr. Tapply was a masterful storyteller.  Reading his [...]
August 22, 2011
Tags: Boston, Canada, international terrorism, legal suspense, Maine, Minotaur Books, mystery, Pocket Books, political thriller, private detective, Southeast Asia, supernatural, Touchstone, Washington DC Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Murder in Montmartre by Cara Black
Murder in Montmartre Cara Black Soho Press, 2006 ISBN 1569474109 Hardcover (ARC) Also available in trade paperback On the wide, shop-lined Boulevard de Clichy by the Moulin Rouge, its garish neon now dark, plumes of bus exhaust spiraled into the air. A straggling demonstration blocked the street as loudspeakers shouted, “Corsica for Corsicans!” Waiting passengers [...]
March 28, 2011
Tags: Corsican separatist movement, France, mystery, Paris neighborhood, private detective, Soho Press Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
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