Book Reviews
A Rule Against Murder By Louise Penny
Louise Penny, whose middle names must be Agatha and Christie, has, with A Rule Against Murder, worked through the seasons. It's Summer, Chief Inspector Gamache and his wife, Reine-Marie have returned to the well respected and secluded Manor Be...
Two of the Deadliest By Elizabeth George (Editor)
The short story continues to make an amazing comeback. For many years book stores had a very hard time selling short story anthologies, but in the last few years many publishers are putting out more and more of the format. Now comes, Two of the...
In The Shadow of the Master By Michael Connelly (Editor)
In the Shadow of the Master is a book of classic tales by Edgar Allan Poe, published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of his birth. Each story is followed by a commentary from one today's finest crime writers. Authors such as Michael Conne...
Beat The Reaper By Josh Bazell
Josh Bazell is a medical resident at the University of California and he has crafted an excellent, original first crime novel. Peter Brown is a Manhattan emergency room doctor with a very dark past. A former Mafia tough guy he is now in the ...
Mr. Cornwell is one of the most accomplished fiction authors working today and he is the master of the historical adventure novel. He is the author of several series, the most famous being the Richard Sharpe novels featuring a British soldier ...
Honestly Dearest You're Dead By Jack Fredrickson
Vlodek Elstrom, Dek, to almost everyone, and his pal Leo Brumsky, are at work on his castle tower repairing a window, when he gets a call from a lawyer. It seems he's made executor to a will. What's unusual is that Dek doesn't know the person ...
Norman Green is one of crime fiction's best kept secrets. He is the author of five excellent novels set mostly around NYC, yet remains somewhat unknown. Two of his novels feature very tough, honorable Brooklyn con men, a third, The Angel of Mo...
All The Colors Of Darkness By Peter Robinson
Banter between officers, run ins with superiors, support teams of crime scene or medical personell, red herrings, these things and more are the framework of and go into making up a good police procedural. Peter Robinson has, in following the f...
The Tourist By Olen Steinhauer
The Tourist is the latest novel from Olen Steinhauer. In this stand alone that hints at a series, he introduces Milo Weaver. In his heyday Milo was the CIA's best Tourist. An operative rather than an analyst, a loner. Tourists have no specific...
The title, Ravens, George Dawes Green's newest novel in fourteen years may be a bit of wordplay on raving. All the characters in this new work have their idiosyncrasies; as well they should given this is a psychological thriller. Ravens, like ...
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