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. Â 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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Book Reviews: Dead Man’s Chest by Kerry Greenwood, Murder in Passy by Cara Black, and Guilt by Association by Marcia Clark
Dead Man’s Chest Kerry Greenwood Poisoned Pen Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-59508-797-3 Hardcover Also available in trade paperback The Hon. Phryne Fisher makes her 16th appearance in this novel wherein she deservedly takes her entourage, including daughters Ruth and Jane, companion Dot, and pet Molly, on a vacation to the Australian coastal resort of Queenscliff where [...]
October 12, 2011
Tags: Australia, Basque independence, historical, legal thriller, Los Angeles, Mulholland Books, mystery, Paris, pirates, Poisoned Pen Press, private investigator, smuggling, Soho Crime Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Random Violence by Jassy Mackenzie
Random Violence Jassy Mackenzie Soho Crime, April 2011 ISBN: 978-1-56947-911-7 Trade Paperback Jade deJong , the headstrong protagonist of this terrific new novel, is a p.i. who has left her native South Africa, but following a ten-year absence has returned after, most recently, doing surveillance work in England. Â Her father, before his death, had been [...]
October 1, 2011
Tags: mystery, private investigator, Soho Crime, South Africa Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews: G.I. Bones by Martin Limon, The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino, and Stolen Lives by Jassy MacKenzie
G.I. Bones Martin Limon Soho Crime, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-56947-863-9 Trade Paperback Seoul, South Korea, is one of the more exotic locales for a murder mystery, and the C.I.D operatives, Sgts. Sueno and Bascom, are two of the more different protagonists around. Â This is the sixth entry in the series, but the first this reader has [...]
September 14, 2011
Tags: Britain, human trafficking, Japan, military intelligence, Minotaur Books, mystery, police procedural, private investigator, Soho Crime, Soho Press, South Africa, South Korea, suspense Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews: The Border Lords by T. Jefferson Parker, Red Jade by Henry Chang, and Edge by Jeffery Deaver
The Border Lords T. Jefferson Parker Dutton, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-525-95200-8 Hardcover This latest Charlie Hood novel is as confusing as it is well-written and well-researched; the plot (or plots) are at once baffling and intriguing. The story draws the reader along by its sheer force right up to the end. Many of the characters that [...]
August 17, 2011
Tags: drug trade, Dutton, federal protection officer, gun trade, intelligence agency, Mexican-American border, mystery, New York Chinatown, police procedural, Seattle, Simon & Schuster, Soho Crime, Washington DC Posted in: Full Reviews One Comment
Book Reviews: Every Bitter Thing by Leighton Gage and Critical Condition by CJ Lyons
Every Bitter Thing Leighton Gage Soho Crime, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-56947-845-5 Hardcover On the opening page of Leighton Gage’s newest book, the fourth in his series featuring the Brazilian Chief Inspector Mario Silva, the reader is introduced to Jonas Palhares, a petroleum engineer who is very soon after brutally murdered in his Ipanema apartment.  This is [...]
August 10, 2011
Tags: Brazil, Jove, medical thriller, mystery, Pittsburgh, police procedural, Soho Crime 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 Reviews: A Ted Feit Roundup
The Steam Pig James McClure Soho Crime, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-56947-652-9 Trade Paperback Before his death four years ago, the author wrote eight novels in this series, featuring a white CID lieutenant, Tromp Kramer, and his black assistant, Sgt. Zondi. Â The setting for The Steam Pig was apartheid South Africa, and the descriptions of that society [...]
December 30, 2010
Tags: apartheid, Britain, domestic abuse, Harper, Los Angeles, mystery, police procedural, Soho Crime, South Africa, William Morrow Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville
The Ghosts of Belfast Stuart Neville Soho Crime, October 2010 ISBN: 978-1-56947-857-8 Trade Paperback The “Troubles” in Northern Ireland have spawned many novels, but none as intense and different as Ghosts. Â Based on the past efforts of Republicans to force unification with Eire and the conflicts between Catholics and Protestants in the North, the novel [...]
September 12, 2010
Tags: mystery, Northern Ireland, political thriller, Soho Crime Posted in: Full Reviews One Comment
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