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Posts from the ‘Crime Fiction’ category

In the Woods is a gripping novel that is tightly written through its intensive focus on the investigation with just enough human drama and deadpan humor. Steven Crossley makes the audiobook a success with the accents and manner of speaking that makes it seem like…

Review of Tana French’s In The Woods

March 18, 2022

Klingborg’s Thief of Souls is an impressive detective novel set in modern day China. Besides the setting in a small provincial town the size of a hamlet where ordinarily the most serious crime is the theft of chickens, in Thief of Souls Klingborg develops the…

Brian Klingborg’s Thief of Souls – A Review

March 25, 2021

Forthcoming release – September 3, 2019 Reading Ann Cleeves’ latest novel, The Long Call, the first in the series Two Rivers, brought me back to Shetland Islands. I watched the series on Netflix and absolutely loved it though it did take me a bit to…

Review of Ann Cleeves’ The Long Call

May 25, 2019

See the link at the end of this sentence for an article on one of Connelly’s primary characters-Harry Bosch.

One of the best crime fiction writers – Michael Connelly

April 24, 2019

The New York Times recently interviewed Donna Leon about writing, books to read and consider, among other topics. Click here to go to the interview.

Detective Brunetti’s Creator – Donna Leon

March 8, 2019

  If you want to get a feel for how rural America, or at least the rural South lives, read Bette Lee Crosby’s Spare Change. It is not the pretty “village” story as life can be as hard or harder in the rural areas as…

A Backwoods Story: Review of Bette Lee Crosby’s Spare Change

February 24, 2017

I had read Connelly’s The Book of Lost Things and so was prepared for the unusual, the strange, and just plain creepy when I agreed to review A Time of Torment. John Connelly’s A Time of Torment (Charlie Parker #14) reminds me of the movie…

Supernaturally Deranged: Review of John Connelly’s A Time of Torment

September 9, 2016

I have to admit if Most Wanted had not been selected by the physical book club (as opposed to virtual bookclubs in Goodreads) for our August meeting, I may not have picked up the novel. Now that I did, I am glad I did. Lisa…

An In Vitro Mystery: Review of Lisa Scottoline’s Most Wanted

July 25, 2016

For readers of mystery and crime set in the American West, Karin Salvalaggio’s newest novel, Walleye Junction (Macy Greeley #6) does not disappoint. Macy Greeley is a roving detective that is the lead investigator into the kidnapping, turned murder of a controversial talk show host…

Murderous Doctors: Review of Karin Salvalaggio’s Walleye Junction

July 16, 2016

Although not as good as Larson’s The Devil in the White City, Thunderstruck deals with a little known era, at least to this reader, Edwardian England before WWI. Besides mystery which drew me in, the science and history behind the beginnings of wireless communication pulled…

Edwardian England: Erik Larson’s Thunderstruck

July 15, 2016
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