Book Reviews: Fatal Error by J. A. Jance, Death Toll by Jim Kelly, Rag and Bone by James R. Benn, and Rogue by Frederick Ramsay
Fatal Error J.A. Jance Touchstone, February 2011 ISBN: 978-1-4165-6381-5 Hardcover The Ali Reynolds series usually has the protagonist solving some kind of mystery, and this one is no exception.  However, the reader has to put up with a slow beginning, describing Ali’s experiences during her training at the Police Academy.  When she completes the course, [...]
February 6, 2012
Tags: Arizona, Army investigator, CIA agent, historical, homicide detective, internet dating, Katyn Forest massacre, London, Minotaur Books, mystery, Norfolk England, Poisoned Pen Press, police procedural, police trainee, Polish officers, rural sheriff, Scotland Yard, Soho Press, Soviets, Touchstone, Virginia, Washington DC, WWII 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 Review: Covenant by Dean Crawford
Covenant Dean Crawford Touchstone Books, October 2011 ISBN 9781451628531 Hardcover What if you had nothing to lose? However, what if you had everything to gain? What if you were a party to discovering a secret going back millennia, possibly to the beginning of the rise of mankind? Of course, you know there will be others [...]
December 19, 2011
Tags: action adventure, archaeologist, extraterrestrial, Israel, missing person, thriller, Touchstone Books, war correspondent, Washington DC 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 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 Review: The Cut by George Pelecanos
The Cut George Pelecanos Reagan Arthur Books, August 2011 ISBN Hardcover Don’t expect anything new from Pelecanos’ new book introducing a new lead character. You’re going to get the same down to earth strong story, the same strong, definitive characters, the same devotion to music, food, books, and culture as you’ve read in his other [...]
August 13, 2011
Tags: drug trade, mystery, private investigator, Reagan Arthur Books, thriller, Washington DC Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
A Winning Reader and Book Reviews: Supreme Justice by Phillip Margolin and Coming Back by Marcia Muller
Congratulations to Iris Haltom, winner of a signed copy of Hard Spell by Justin Gustainis! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Supreme Justice Phillip Margolin Harper, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-192652-5 Mass Market Paperback What does an author do when he “falls in love” with characters in a novel he completed? Â Why he just writes another using them again. Â But the characters [...]
August 4, 2011
Tags: attorney, disability, FBI agent, Grand Central Publishing, Harper, mystery, political thriller, private investigator, San Francisco, Washington DC Posted in: Contests/Giveaways, Full Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews: This Body of Death by Elizabeth George and Law of Attraction by Allison Leotta
This Body of Death Elizabeth George Harper, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-116091-2 Mass Market Paperback In the 16th Inspector Lynley novel, we find him at home after having completed his wanderings around Cornwall trying to find peace following the murder of his wife. Â Still undecided as to what to do in the future, he is approached by [...]
July 30, 2011
Tags: domestic abuse, England, Harper, legal thriller, mystery, police procedural, Touchstone, Washington DC Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: A Gift for Murder by Karen McCullough
A Gift for Murder Karen McCullough Five Star, January 2011 ISBN No. 978-1-59414-931-3 Hardcover Heather McNeil has faced some very unusual incidents since she became assistant to the director of the Washington, D.C. Commerce & Market Show Center but the most recent one tops them all.  The current show at the market center is one [...]
April 19, 2011
Tags: Five Star, Market Center Mysteries, mystery, Washington DC Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Kickback by p.m. terrell
Kickback p. m. terrell Chicago Spectrum Press, 2002 ISBN 1879260417 Mass Market Paperback Re-issued by Drake Valley Press, 2002 ISBN 0972818618 0-9728186-1-8-9728186-1-8 Sheila Carpenter is a recent college graduate, a farm girl just starting her career as a computer programmer in the big city, Washington, DC. Recruited by a prestigious computer consulting firm, she’s rented [...]
April 7, 2011
Tags: Chicago Spectrum Press, computer programming, Drake Valley Press, mystery, thriller, Washington DC Posted in: My Reviews No Comments
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