The Ranger begins with, waddaya know, an Army Ranger named Quinn Colson returning home to Tibbehah County in northern Mississippi …Read the Rest
Archive for September, 2011
Breaking Bad “Crawl Space” – review
After last week’s big “holy shit!” episode, I figured “Crawl Space” might take it easy a bit, let us all …Read the Rest
FICTION: Veronica by Doree Weller
Men are all the same. They’re all out to get you. They’re all out to see what they can do …Read the Rest
More Bouchercon, 2011
by Mar Preston I write what’s called police procedurals, where the investigator solving the murder is a member of a …Read the Rest
Drive by Nicolas Winding Refn – review
Drive made me feel like I was thirteen again. I came out of the theater wanting to go right back …Read the Rest
The Night Season by Chelsea Cain – review
In this, the fourth book in the series featuring police detective Archie Sheridan, Gretchen Lowell, the beautiful, sadistic serial killer …Read the Rest
The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell, Laurie Thompson (tr) – review
Nothing is as it seems, and all good things come to an end. And so, the time has come to …Read the Rest
Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis – review
Human obsession with sex and death dominate this latest in the Max Liebermann Mystery series. And of course, the good …Read the Rest
Live Wire by Harlan Coben – review
To paraphrase the Bard: “The mistakes that men make live long after them.” This thesis governs the plot of this …Read the Rest
Silent Mercy by Linda Fairstein – review
This deeply researched series highlighting New York landmarks featuring Alexandra Cooper and Mike Chapman takes the reader in a somewhat …Read the Rest
Known to Evil by Walter Mosley – review
Leonid Trotter McGill is a 54-year-old African-American man, an amateur boxer known to have had his “finger in every dishonest …Read the Rest
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino – review
Cleverly pitting the logic of a mathematician against that of a physicist, and then the physicist vs. an intuition-leaning detective, …Read the Rest
Agent X by Noah Boyd – review
Kate Bannon, the Assistant Director of the FBI who readers, and ex-FBI Agent Steve Vail first met in this author’s …Read the Rest
Fatal Error by J.A. Jance – review
The Ali Reynolds series usually has the protagonist solving some kind of mystery, and this one is no exception. However, …Read the Rest
Though Not Dead by Dana Stabenow – review
Nearly a century’s worth of Alaskan history serves as the backdrop for this latest Kate Shugak novel, as witnessed by …Read the Rest
The Nomination by William G. Tapply – review
The Nomination is a posthumously released novel by William Tapply, and a terrific one it is. Thomas Larrigan is about …Read the Rest
The Cut by George Pelecanos – review
Whenever an interview with George Pelecanos pops up online, you know the Nerd eats that shit up. Guy wrote some …Read the Rest
Breaking Bad – “Salud” – review
This was a week of characters stepping up. Some, like Skyler, stepped up only to have it back-fire right in …Read the Rest
Why The Cover of Hard Bite Is So Bad it’s BRILLIANT
By Joanne Bolton of Bolton Associates, fine printing services I was designing a book at the time I got an …Read the Rest
Spider’s Bite by Jennifer Estep – review
I’ve seen Estep’s name around and been curious about her work, so when Spider’s Bite, the first in her urban …Read the Rest
