Book Review: Storm Prey

Storm Prey
John Sandford
G. P. Putnam’s Sons, May 2010
ISBN 9780399156496
Hardcover
Surgeon Weather Karkinnen doesn’t think anything about the guy she saw in the elevator one morning on her way to work, a scheduled separation of conjoined twins.  Unfortunately for her, that man is directly connected to the pharmacy robbery, the one that shut [...]

July 28, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: The Ark by Boyd Morrison

The Ark
Boyd Morrison
Read by Boyd Gaines
Simon & Schuster Audio, May 2010
ISBN 1442305126
Unabridged Audio Book
The search for Noah’s Ark has been the goal of archeologists the world over for centuries, even those who consider themselves to be nonbelievers.  Now, her father may have been successful, but archeologist Dilara Kenner knows very little about it other than [...]

June 16, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: Icebound by Dean Koontz

Icebound
Dean Koontz
Read by Paul Michael
Random House Audio, 2007
ISBN 0739341413
Unabridged Audio Book
A scientific team in the Arctic icefield is conducting an experiment and has just finished laying sixty explosive charges, scheduled to detonate at midnight, when a completely unexpected tidal wave hits and breaks off a huge piece of ice.  Unfortunately, the scientists are marooned on [...]

May 27, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: My Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: The Bone Thief by Jefferson Bass

The Bone Thief
Jefferson Bass
William Morrow & Company, April 2010
ISBN 0061284769
Hardcover
Anytime Grease calls, Dr. Bill Brockton knows the case could be dicey. “Grease” is the nickname given to Burt DeVriess, a wealthy Knoxville defense attorney. DeVriess wants Dr. Brockton to exhume the body of a eight-year-old corpse in order to determine if the [...]

April 19, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Full Reviews  3 Comments

Book Review: The Disappeared by M. R. Hall

The Disappeared
M. R. Hall
Simon & Schuster, 2009
ISBN 9781439156988
Hardcover
Jenny Cooper is a coroner.  Sounds simple enough, doesn’t it?  She declares people dead.  That gets more complicated when there is no body.  Amira Jamal brings a case to Jenny that starts out complicated and only gets more so.  Seven years ago, her son and one of his [...]

April 2, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Review: The Empire of the Wolves

The Empire of the Wolves
Jean-Christophe Grangé
HarperCollins, 2006
ISBN 006057366X
Trade Paperback
The Empire of the Wolves is a French thriller by John Christophe Grange, who is a former French reporter with two prior novels to his credit.  The story’s a complex and gritty tale with a strong Parisian voice. While this book is not the [...]

March 24, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Review: The Little Death

The Little Death
P.J. Parrish
Pocket Books, February 2010
ISBN 9781416525899
Mass Market
Louis Kincaid finds himself working a case in the heart of a place he isn’t comfortable: Palm Beach, Florida.  There are so many obvious reasons for him to feel out of place: skin color, finances, attitude, etc.  He’s not happy about being there in the first place, [...]

March 19, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  2 Comments

Review: The Breach

The Breach
Patrick Lee
Harper, January 2010
ISBN 9780061584459
Mass Market Paperback
Travis Chase has a past, a prison sentence served for deeds that deserved the conviction, although some might say he had justification for his behavior at the end.  Whatever the case, he has come to the Alaskan wilderness for the solitude that may help him make some decisions [...]

March 3, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: My Reviews  No Comments

Review: The Bricklayer

The Bricklayer
Noah Boyd
William Morrow & Company, February 2010
ISBN 0061827010
Hardcover (ARC)
Someone’s killing the FBI’s worst problems.  You’d think the agency would be grateful, unfortunately, the situation is making them look bad.  The killer’s demanding a ransom to make the problem stop.  When you’ve got a situation like this, you need to call in someone who get [...]

January 13, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Review: Among Thieves

Among Thieves
David Hosp
Grand Central Publishing, January 2010
ISBN 0446580155
Hardcover (ARC)
Thefts of 300 million dollars worth of paintings from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Art Museum in 1990 literally left empty frames in the galleries and puzzled criminologists and mystery lovers for years. Author and attorney David Hosp posits a theory about this case in “Among Thieves” that’s [...]

January 8, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments