Book Reviews
Marshall Karp returns with his third crime novel featuring LA Homicide detectives Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs. The wife of one of their detective buddies is executed in her garage starting a major manhunt that leads to many other killings and a...
The Prosecution Rests is a compilation of short stories featuring many of today's finest legal thriller writers. This collection covers all of the legal issues, from the lawyers conflicts, to the actions of the criminals to the families hoping for ju...
Murder of a Royal Pain By Denise Swanson
Denise Swanson is one of my favorite authors. She manages to take me away from everything the world and lets me escape to Scumble Creek for a vacation. Of course, what is relaxing for me is often the opposite for series character Skye Denison, ...
True Detectives By Jonathan Kellerman
TRUE DETECTIVES is a spin off from the Alex Delaware series featuring two half brothers, one a cop and one a PI. I first read Kellerman way back with WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS. While always a solid writer it’s been a while since he thrilled m...
Lethal Legacy By Linda Fairstein
Number eleven in the series featuring Alex Cooper, LETHAL LEGACY feels like her best yet. Cooper works for the DA’s office sex crimes unit (as did Fairstein) and as this tale opens Alex is called out to a crime scene in which someone di...
Jan Burke has never stood still as a writer and everything she’s ever published has been a delight to mystery fans. Throughout the years she’s exposed layers of our genre until you cannot be in a cabin without a touch of claustropho...
Brian Wiprud has entertained me with every one of his previous books, and I was thrilled to see the latest in hardcover. FEELERS has a rather distinctive Wiprud feel. The main character is a guy with a very non-typical job and is sometimes more...
Blood and Bone By William Lashner
Known for his series featuring Victor Carl, Lashner takes a break from Carl and has put out a wonderful first standalone. BLOOD AND BONE’s lead is Kyle Byrne, illegitimate son of a prominent lawyer in Philly. When his dad dies when Kyle i...
Nick Horrigan gets a visit in the night. SWAT has come to his balcony. He thought he was safe, the past buried. But “The Incident” that has had him living underground for twenty years has reared its head and now Nick must pay the pi...
Jack Taylor has been through the wars. We’ve watched Jack for close to a decade now, righting the wrongs of the everyman in his hometown of Galloway. An addictive personality, who for all his protest does try and do the right thing. Bruen...
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