This Kramer and Zondi novel, one of eight in the series written before the author’s death in 2006, was first …Read the Rest
Archive for December, 2010
The Steam Pig by James McClure – review
Before his death four years ago, the author wrote eight novels in this series, featuring a white CID lieutenant, Tromp …Read the Rest
Overkill by Joseph Teller – review
To say that Harrison J. Walker [known to one and all as “Jaywalker”: “he’d dropped the Harrison part as too …Read the Rest
Spinetingler Award bleg
With the Spinetingler Awards a couple of months off and the end of the year approaching the process of taking …Read the Rest
The Price of Life by Greg McCarthy – review
This novel contains many of the pluses and minuses typical of a first novel. It has the germ of a …Read the Rest
Dog Tags by David Rosenfelt – review
This legal-thriller-cum-amusing-background series, featuring the talented but not so enthusiastic defense attorney Andy Carpenter, once again demonstrates his love of …Read the Rest
Cast of Shadows by Kevin Guilfoile – review
Cast of Shadows begins with every parent’s worst nightmare, when Davis Moore’s teenage daughter is brutally raped and murdered by …Read the Rest
Crossfire by Dick Francis and Felix Francis – review
This is the fourth work completed by Dick Francis and his son, and it certainly lives up the standards the …Read the Rest
Bad Boy by Peter Robinson – review
Murphy’s Law seems to apply to the premise behind this novel. After a well-earned vacation touring the U.S. Southwest and …Read the Rest
Ice by Vladimir Sorokin – review
Moscow has been hit by a wave of brutal murders. The victims are of both sexes, from different backgrounds, and …Read the Rest
From the Dead by Mark Billingham – review
D.I Tom Thorne is one among the outstanding protagonists in the crime genre who doggedly solve murders and other mysteries …Read the Rest
