Book Review: A COMMON EVIL by Billy Ray Chitwood
Not only do I write mysteries but I love reading them, too, especially the ones that take me to new places. This week’s book review is of A COMMON EVIL GO → The post Book Review: A COMMON EVIL by Billy...
View ArticleBook Review: The Coroner’s Lunch by Colin Cotterill
Not only do I write a mystery series, but I read them, too. My favorite mysteries are the ones that take me to new places. This week’s book review is GO → The post Book Review: The Coroner’s Lunch by...
View ArticleBook Review: Hotel Pastis by Peter Mayle
Up for a trip to southern France, where mirth, mayhem, and Champagne rule? C’est vraiment drole! Translation: keep reading. I not only write mysteries but I love reading them, too. GO → The post Book...
View ArticleTwice as Nice: Book Reviews That Matter
A glowing book review from an authoritative source is good. But let’s face it, two is twice as nice. That’s what happened this week. THE HIDDEN LIGHT OF MEXICO CITY GO → The post Twice as Nice: Book...
View ArticleBook Review: The Witch of Napoli
The Witch of Napoli by Michael Schmicker is an unexpected trip to 1890’s Italy, when Garibaldi’s unification of the country was still tenuous and Italy’s city-states retained their strong regional GO →...
View ArticleBook Review: Top Secret Twenty One
The Stephanie Plum books are like Pringle’s potato chips—I can’t eat just one despite the fact I know they’ll be full of empty calories. Maybe it’s the salt. Whatever. Pass GO → The post Book Review:...
View ArticleBook Review: Smokescreen, a thriller
Smokescreen by Khaled Talib is a thriller for today’s audience. It’s got a politically driven plot based on current events, an everyman hero, and enough double-dealing and deranged killers to GO → The...
View ArticleBook Review: The Orphan Uprising
The Orphan Uprising is the riveting last book in the Orphan Trilogy by the father-and-son writing duo of Lance and James Morcan from New Zealand. I hear they are making GO → The post Book Review: The...
View ArticleLeighton Gage’s Legacy
On Wednesday, 13 May, Facebook reminded me that it was Leighton Gage’s birthday. I found the reminder somewhat disturbing. Salute to a Pioneer Disturbing, because fellow mystery author Leighton Gage GO...
View ArticleBook Review: Devoted to Death by Andrew Chesnut
If you want to understand Mexican culture, DEVOTED TO DEATH must be in your personal library. It is a detailed examination of Santa Muerte, Mexico’s most famous folk saint. Santa GO → The post Book...
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Book Review: The World Between Two Covers
The World Between Two Covers by Ann Morgan is supposedly the experience of a woman who in one year read a book from every country across the globe and I loved the idea for a book review. From the...
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Book Review: The Blackhouse by Peter May
As soon as I read The Blackhouse by Peter May, I knew I had to share a book review. The setting is the remote, windy, and rainswept Hebrides islands off Scotland’s western coast. The murder is gruesome...
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Book Review: Jihadi Apprentice by Bruns & Olson
I write mysteries and thrillers and love to read them, too. In this book review, I look at JIHADI APPRENTICE by David Bruns and J.R. Olson, a very modern thriller with an insider’s ring of...
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Book Review: A Death in the Family by Michael Stanley
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY by Michael Stanley is a deeply authentic visit to Botswana, hosted by Detective David “Kubu” Bengu of the country’s Criminal Investigation Division. The novel stands alone but if...
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Book Review: The Blackhouse by Peter May
In The Blackhouse by Peter May, the setting is the remote, windy, and rainswept Hebrides islands off Scotland’s western coast. The murder is gruesome and mimics a recent killing in Edinburgh being...
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Book Review: The Witch of Napoli
The Witch of Napoli by Michael Schmicker is an unexpected trip to 1890’s Italy, when Garibaldi’s unification of the country was still tenuous and Italy’s city-states retained their strong regional...
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What Happened to the Jesse Stone Mystery Series?
When mystery author Robert B. Parker passed away, I mourned the end of the Spenser and Jesse Stone mystery series, as well as his Westerns featuring the enigmatic Virgil Cole. Sunny Randall, not so...
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Book Review: The Trespasser by Tana French
THE TRESPASSER by Tana French is the 6th novel in the chronicles of the fictional Dublin Murder Squad. Each is narrated by a different member of the squad, whose private life is somehow linked to—and...
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Book Review: A Madras Miasma by Brian Stoddart
In A MADRAS MIASMA, New Zealand author Brian Stoddart takes us to India in 1920 with an extraordinary sense of place and time. India is on the brink of explosion and the murder mystery is another lit...
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Book Review: Claws of the Cat by Susan Spann
CLAWS OF THE CAT is one of those books you wish you’d written, but grudgingly know you’d never come up with the premise. Related: Author to Author with Susan Spann Author Susan Spann takes us to...
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