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 
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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 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
Book Reviews: The Leopard by Jo Nesbo, The Girl in the Green Raincoat by Laura Lippman and Queen of the Night by J.A. Jance
The Leopard Jo Nesbo Translated by Don Bartlett Harvill Secker, January 2011 ISBN: 978-1-846-55401-8 Paperback [It should be noted that this book is presently only available in/through the UK & Canada. It will be published in the US in hardcover on 12/13/11 by Knopf Publishing Group.] The latest Harry Hole novel presents the reader with [...]
November 9, 2011
Tags: Arizona, Baltimore, cold case investigators, Harper, Harvill Secker, Knopf Publishing Group, Morrow, mystery, Native American, Norway, novella, police procedural, private investigator, serial killer, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews: The Accident by Linwood Barclay and The Bride Collector by Ted Dekker
The Accident Linwood Barclay Bantam Books, August 2011 ISBN No. 978-0553807189 Hardcover Glen and Sheila Garber have been facing what so many other couples across the country are facing. The economy isn’t any better in Connecticut where they have their home than any other location in the United States. Glen is a contractor and owns [...]
October 20, 2011
Tags: Bantam Books, Center Street, Connecticut, Denver, FBI, forensic psychologist, mystery, serial killer, suburban crime, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews: Box 21 by Anders Roslund & Borge Hellstrom, Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis and Death Toll by Jim Kelly
Box 21 Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom Picador, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-312-65534-1 Trade Paperback This is not an easy novel to read, but it is well worth it because it is quite different from the usual crime-cum-thriller novels from Scandinavia. It really is a psychological study of the conflicts facing detectives in their moral and ethical [...]
September 25, 2011
Tags: 1903 Austria, England, historical, Minotaur Books, mob enforcer, mystery, Picador, police procedural, psychological, psychopathologist, Random House, serial killer, sex slavery, Sweden, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Night Corridor by Joan Hall Hovey
Night Corridor Joan Hall Hovey Books We Love Publishing Partners, March 2011 ISBN 9781926965567 Trade Paperback Sometimes the world can be a scary place. Who knows what evil may lurk around the next corner…or just outside your door? Enter the Night Corridor and follow the lives of some of the people in a small town [...]
September 10, 2011
Tags: 1973, Books We Love Publishing Partners, mental illness, mystery, serial killer, suspense Posted in: Full Reviews One Comment
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 Review: Mister X by John Lutz
Mister X John Lutz Pinnacle, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-7860-2026-3 Mass Market Paperback From the attention-getting first sentence of this novel (“Quinn had found a box of paper clips in his bottom desk drawer and was just straightening up when the dead woman entered his office”) to the description of the latter, which ends as follows: “The [...]
May 14, 2011
Tags: mystery, New York, Pinnacle, private investigator, serial killer, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews 2 Comments
Book Review: Dexter Is Delicious by Jeff Lindsay
Dexter is Delicious Jeff Lindsay Doubleday, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-385-53235-8 Hardcover Jeff Lindsay is back, with his totally unique creation, Dexter Morgan. Mr. Lindsay’s trademark alliteration is firmly in place, e.g., on the second page of the novel, Dexter references his Dark Dabbler, Dexter Dead for Decades, and Dexter the Decidedly Dreadful. [Although the tale is [...]
May 5, 2011
Tags: Doubleday, forensic scientist, Miami, mystery, police procedural, serial killer Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
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