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Archive for ‘Reviews’
Baudelaire’s Revenge: Coarse salt across your senses
Complex, engrossing, story layering . Hercule Poirot Prize winner – 2007 Tense and grim is the Paris that Commissioner Paul […]
Stinking Rich: Tornado in a bottle
Delightfully outlandish and wickedly outrageous An outhouse, airplane and RV. A bright-eyed granny, stalwart ticket agent and mountain man. What […]
Mo Hayder: Darkly intense
Characters we don’t want to believe exist I’ll never forget the first Mo Hayder book I read: The Treatment. When […]
Bay Street: A Novel
Neurosis behind the door, delusions at the desk Cheeky, dark and clamorous, it’s an escapade into a Toronto corporate law […]
Peggy Blair: Magic
Let me talk to you about Peggy Blair, or rather her first book The Beggar’s Opera (Midnight in Havana in […]
Florida Roadkill: Off the walker in the 27th state
If the Cohen brothers were to write a book this would be the one. Fortunately we have Tim Dorsey making […]
Dark Places
Libby Day is not a likeable character; she is prickly, aggressive, hostile. The sole witness to the murder of her […]
Joseph Wambaugh’s Hollywood Station Series
Hollywood! Joseph Wambaugh perfected the modern police procedural years ago with a full-stop writing style that no one has […]
Roland March Series
In November, I made a brief mention of the eBook Back on Murder the first of the Roland March series […]
