The Amateurs of the title, in this absorbing new book by Marcus Sakey, author most recently of the wonderful “Good …Read the Rest
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Bait by Nick Brownlee – review
For nearly the first half of Bait, the excellent debut novel by Nick Brownlee, apparently disconnected events transpire over a …Read the Rest
Dark Tiger by William G. Tapply – review
Stonewall Jackson (“Stoney”) Calhoun here makes his third and, sadly, last fictional appearance. Mr. Tapply, his creator, died in the …Read the Rest
The Guilty Client by Roberta Rogow – review
Deadly Ink June, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-97874428-1 Paperback, 229 pp., $13.95 In the first of a new series, Roberta Rogow introduces …Read the Rest
Even by Andrew Grant – review
Minotaur May, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-312-54026-5 Hardcover, 352 pp., $24.95 David Trevellyan has been employed by the British Government for fifteen …Read the Rest
The Wings of the Sphinx by Andrea Camilleri, translated by Stephen Sartarelli – review
Penguin Mystery Original January, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-14-311660-8 Paperback, 226 pp., $14.00 Inspector Montalbano is feeling his age: Only 56, he …Read the Rest
Book Review: Urgent Care by CJ Lyons
Jove October 27, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-515-14705-6 Paperback, 384 pp., $7.99 C. J. Lyons, in her third book in the series, …Read the Rest
Book Review: Hunt at the Well of Eternity by Gabriel Hunt and James Reasoner
Leisure Books/Hard Case Crime May 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8439-6246-8 Paperback, 226 pp., $6.99 When a stunningly beautiful woman with a slight …Read the Rest
Book Review: Dead Air by Deborah Shlian and Linda Reid
Oceanview Publishing December 2009 ISBN: 978-1-933515-50-2 Hardcover, 336 pp., $25.95 A shiver runs down the reader’s spine in reading the …Read the Rest
Book Review: Ticket to Ride by Ed Gorman
Pegasus Books December 2009 ISBN: 978-1-60598-070-6 Hardcover, 240 pp., $25.00 The year is 1965 – a turbulent year across the …Read the Rest
Book Review: Liars Anonymous by Louise Ure
It was the prosecutor at her murder trial who dubbed Jessica ["Jessie"] Gammadge the Queen of Liars Anonymous. She is …Read the Rest
Book Review: Let Darkness Come by Angela Hunt
Briley Lester, a junior associate with a prestigious Chicago law firm, is handed a career-making case. Jeffrey Tomassi, the son …Read the Rest
Book Review: Blood Moon by Garry Disher
To say that Adrian Wishart was a control freak would be an understatement. It is, therefore, perhaps understandable that when …Read the Rest
Book Review: Safer by Sean Doolittle
The front cover of “Safer,” Sean Doolittle’s superlative new novel, depicts neighborhood scenes, at once bucolic, mundane and lovely – …Read the Rest
Book Review: Boca Knights by Steven M. Forman
Eddie Perlmutter was always a street brawler, a “puny Jewish kid from the upscale suburb of Brookline,” Massachusetts, and from …Read the Rest
Book Review: The Semantics of Murder by Aifric Campbell
Jay Hamilton is a 51-year-old West London psychoanalyst who, unknown to his ‘clients’ [as they apparently, since he is not …Read the Rest
Book Review: Doubleback by Libby Fischer Hellman
Ellie Foreman, single mother of 18-year-old Rachel and an independent commercial video producer and the protagonist in one of the …Read the Rest
Book Review: All The Colors of Darkness by Peter Robinson
The deaths about which much of the plot of Peter Robinson’s newest Inspector Banks novel revolves occur just before the …Read the Rest
