Book Reviews Galore by Ted Feit
The House at Sea’s End Elly Griffiths Quercus, January 2011 ISBN: 978-1-84916-367-5 Hardcover [It should perhaps be noted that this review is based on the UK and Canada edition; the US edition is now available in the US from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt] As the book opens Kate, the baby born to Ruth Galloway, the forensic [...]
January 2, 2012
Tags: Alfred A. Knopf, Atlantic Monthly Press, Bantam Press, Cold War espionage, England, forensic archaeologist, Harper, hostage, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, human organ theft, humor, internet porn, marijuana, missing person, mystery, noir, police procedural, Quercus, series finale, Sweden, US Marshal, William Morrow, WWII Posted in: Full Reviews 
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Book Reviews: Scared to Death by Wendy Corsi Staub, The Nomination by William G. Tapply and Agent X by Noah Boyd
Scared to Death Wendy Corsi Staub Avon, January 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-18950-7-4 Mass Market Paperback The first murder in Wendy Corsi Staub’s newest thriller occurs on page 7, and the suspense hardly lets up from that point on. Marin Quinn gave up her newborn son at the insistence of her husband, Garvey Quinn.  Elsa Cavalon adopted [...]
December 17, 2011
Tags: Avon, Boston, FBI, Manhattan, missing child, mystery, political suspense, private detective, Skyhorse Publishing, Supreme Court, suspense, treason, William Morrow 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. Â 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 Review: If This Is Paradise, I Want My Money Back by Claudia Carroll
If This Is Paradise, I Want My Money Back Claudia Carroll William Morrow, October 2011 ISBN 978-0-06-204515-7 Trade Paperback Charlotte lies in a hospital bed, trapped by a coma, listening to the conversations around her. Most are directed at her in attempts to bring her back to consciousness and she appreciates the efforts, really she [...]
November 28, 2011
Tags: angels, general fiction, guardian angel, humor, relationships, William Morrow Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews One Comment
Book Reviews: The Final Reckoning by Sam Bourne, Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane and Reapers by Frederick Ramsay
The Final Reckoning Sam Bourne Harper, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-187574-8 Hardcover Truth and fiction merge in this thriller about survivors of the holocaust taking justice into their own hands, seeking out Nazis and murdering them. Â It comes to light when the last survivor of DIN, the secret group of Jewish resistance fighters (yes, there were some) [...]
October 26, 2011
Tags: Boston, Botswana, game ranger, Harper, Holocaust, missing child, mystery, Nazi crimes, Poisoned Pen Press, police procedural, private investigator, Russian mob, soccer, thriller, William Morrow Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Djibouti by Elmore Leonard
Djibouti Elmore Leonard William Morrow, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-173517-2 Hardcover We have become accustomed to certain characteristics in an Elmore Leonard novel: Â kooky characters, an offbeat plot, visual and visceral elements, and so on. Â All of these and more are present in Djibouti, but somehow they are not amusing or meaningful. Â The beginning of the book [...]
June 9, 2011
Tags: Horn of Africa, mystery, piracy, thriller, William Morrow Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: An Impartial Witness by Charles Todd
An Impartial Witness Charles Todd William Morrow, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-179178-9 Hardcover A chance sighting while in Waterloo Station leads Bess Crawford into a long investigation.  She recognizes a woman, crying as a Captain leaves to catch a train to the front during World War I.  The woman, the wife of one of Bess’ patients, whose [...]
May 4, 2011
Tags: England, France, historical, mystery, William Morrow, WWI Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Little Princes by Conor Grennan
Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal Conor Grennan William Morrow, January 2011 ISBN 9780061930058 Hardcover Conor Grennan signed up to work in an orphanage in Nepal so that he could, at some point, impress other people with this item on his resume. He’s pretty up-front about this, as [...]
March 20, 2011
Tags: autobiography, child trafficking, memoir, Nepal, orphanage, William Morrow Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Feit Book Reviews X 3
Queen of the Night J.A. Jance William Morrow & Company, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-123924-3 Hardcover With a bow [by dedicating the book] to the late Tony Hillerman, who was a master at the genre of this novel (and the predecessors in the saga of the Walker family), J.A. Jance has written a murder mystery surrounded by [...]
January 23, 2011
Tags: Arizona, Britain, California, Colorado, Dutton, France, Harper Ecco, international espionage, mystery, Native Americans, police procedural, psychologist, retired detective, Russia, United States, William Morrow Posted in: Full Reviews One Comment
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
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