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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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