A woman, the wife of the British consul in Los Angeles, is found stabbed to death in the ladies room …Read the Rest
Tag: Minotaur Books
Death Toll by Jim Kelly – review
A protagonist like DI Peter Shaw gives the author license to throw more curve balls at the reader than a …Read the Rest
Rizzo’s Fire by Lou Manfredo – review
There are many police procedurals, but few on the down and dirty street level of veteran detective Joe Rizzo, who …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 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
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
On Borrowed Time by David Rosenfelt – review
This is a potboiler of a novel, the author’s third standalone. He is remembered most fondly for his Andy Carpenter …Read the Rest
The Attenbury Emeralds by Jill Paton Walsh – review
I have a confession to make: I never read any of the Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane mysteries. As a result, …Read the Rest
Dead Like You by Peter James – review
This fifth book in the superb Roy Grace series begins in 1997, when he was a 29-year-old Detective Sergeant, a …Read the Rest
Stranglehold by Ed Gorman – review
The cynical political consultant Dev Conrad returns in this well-plotted, twisting tale of intrigue and blackmail during a Congressional election …Read the Rest
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny – review
The book takes place in and around Quebec City, Canada, where the dwindling Anglophone community feels it is still fighting …Read the Rest
Red Herring by Archer Mayor – review
This long-running series featuring Joe Gunther and his team at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation has been consistently excellent. And …Read the Rest
Bleed a River Deep by Brian McGilloway – review
As this newest book in the series begins, Inspector Benedict (“Ben”) Devlin has set his sights on a very wealthy. …Read the Rest
The Devil by Ken Bruen – review
“The Devil” reads like a cocktail of Xanax and Jameson, with a side of Guiness. Maybe that’s because Jack Taylor …Read the Rest
Burn by Nevada Barr – review
It is likely that fans of the Anna Pigeon series might be put off by several aspects of this novel. …Read the Rest
The Wolves of Fairmount Park by Dennis Tafoya – review
This mystery novel is more about the characters than the crime involved. It begins with a drive-by shooting in a …Read the Rest
The Past Is a Foreign Country by Gianrico Carofiglio, translated by Howard Curtis – review
The evil men do lives long after them. Or does it? That is the gist of this extraordinary tale about …Read the Rest
Death Watch by Jim Kelly – review
As far as British mysteries are concerned, this novel is as far out as they go. An 18-year-old case is …Read the Rest
Gallows Lane by Brian McGilloway – review
This novel is the second in a new series featuring Benedict ["Ben"] Devlin, an Inspector in the Guards, or An …Read the Rest
Death Will Help You Leave Him by Elizabeth Zelvin – review
Addiction is the theme of this series. To begin with, the three protagonists are recovering from alcoholism or drug abuse. …Read the Rest
