Book Reviews: The Night Season by Chelsea Cain, Shatter the Bones by Stuart MacBride, In Desperation by Rick Mofina, Damage Control by Denise Hamilton, and A Vine in the Blood by Leighton Gage
The Night Season Chelsea Cain Minotaur Books, March 2011 ISBN: 978-0-312-61976-3 Hardcover In this, the fourth book in the series featuring police detective Archie Sheridan, Gretchen Lowell, the beautiful but masochistic serial killer who in previous entries shared the stage with Archie, is little more than backdrop, a recurring theme playing almost entirely offstage. Gretchen [...]
February 11, 2012
Tags: Arizona, Brazil, California, cartels, child abduction, drug war, HarperCollins UK, investigative journalist, kidnapping, Mexico, Minotaur Books, Mira Books, mystery, Oregon, police procedural, political intrigue, public relations, reality TV, Scotland, Scribner, serial killer, soccer/football, Soho Crime, World Cup Posted in: Full Reviews 
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A Ted Feit Book Review Trio
Portobello Ruth Rendell Scribner, 2010 ISBN: 978-4391-4851-8 Hardcover This is not an easy book to read. Nor is it a mystery. It is a somewhat disjointed story of some disparate characters joined only by the Portobello, a winding street in London filled with stalls and shops where one can find almost anything at any price. [...]
May 30, 2011
Tags: Antigua, England, espionage, general fiction, Harvill Secker, Iceland, mystery, Russian mob, Scribner, Viking, WWII & contemporary Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs
Spider Bones Kathy Reichs Scribner, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-4391-0239-8 Hardcover Temperance Brennan, as most readers already know [if not from her books, then from the very popular TV show “Bones,” based on those same books], is usually based in North Carolina. This latest entry in the series opens with the forensic anthropologist in Quebec, in early [...]
March 10, 2011
Tags: forensic anthropologist, Hawaii, mystery, police procedural, Quebec, Scribner Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Feit Book Reviews x 3
Still Missing Chevy Stevens St. Martin’s Press, July 2010 ISBN: 978-0-312-59567-8 Hardcover This is an interesting novel, despite its shortcomings: Basically the writing is uneven, and in many ways pretentious. A young woman, Annie Sullivan, a realtor on Vancouver Island, Canada, is abducted by a psycho and kept captive for a year, subjected to daily [...]
October 4, 2010
Tags: Britain, Canada, mystery, police procedural, Scribner, St. Martin's, suspense, thriller, Touchstone, US Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
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