Tag: book reviews

  • Reed Farrel Coleman: Sleepless City

    Reed Farrel Coleman: Sleepless City

    ‘Called a hard-boiled poet by NPR, Reed Farrel Coleman is the New York Times-bestselling author of novels, short stories, poetry, and essays.’ And now his new series introduces: Nick Ryan. Available July 12, 2023 Pre-Order Here NYPD Detective Nick Ryan is more than his job, and more than his army background. Right now, he’s on the vocation…

  • Wendy Walker: What Remains

    Wendy Walker: What Remains

    Available June 13,2023 – Pre-Order Here Detective Elise Sutton is shopping for towels at a department store when she hears the gunshots. She locates the shooter and takes her shot putting him down. The impact of this exacerbates her anxiety condition and she fixates on the ‘tall man’ who had been in the shooter’s crosshairs.…

  • D.L. Mark: Twist of Fate

    D.L. Mark: Twist of Fate

    Claudine Durdage is a nationally known communications consultant. Her real life is about grieving the loss of her stillborn child. Jethro is her brother, 188 IQ and a rambling, sweet natured hermit, plagued with schizophrenia. He shows up at her office lobby to tell her something incredibly important. Before that can happen a bloodied man…

  • Joe Clifford: Say My Name

    Joe Clifford: Say My Name

    “Perception is nine tenths of the law.” An author has come back to his home town of Berlin, Connecticut. He’s just divorced, the house in California is sold, and he’s weary. Offered a teaching job meant coming home. Something he said he’d never do. And it has meaning, even if he’s not sure what. His…

  • Lowell Cauffiel: Below the Line

    Lowell Cauffiel: Below the Line

    Edwin Blake is a former Detroit Homicide cop, working in Hollywood as a technical advisor for film and televisions cop shows. Times have been tough lately, the jobs have dried up leaving Blake living off his police pension. Jason Perry, or JP, was the media mogul who brought Blake into the industry. His own profile…

  • Charles Salzberg: Man on the Run

    Charles Salzberg: Man on the Run

    “When I walk into a room, any room, I immediately know two things: where the exit is and exactly where everyone is standing.” By the quote above some would think it’s stated by a police officer, private investigator, or perhaps an operative. In fact, it’s the master burglar Francis Hoyt. He’s known for his skill,…

  • T. Jefferson Parker: The Rescue

    T. Jefferson Parker: The Rescue

    Available April, 25, 2023: Pre-Order Here Journalist Bettina Blazak is reporting on a Tijuana, Mexico, animal shelter when she sees him. A street dog she falls in love with and so takes him home with her, naming him Felix. There is much more to Felix than expected. He’s incredibly well trained, so curiosity about him…

  • James W. Ziskin: Bombay Monsoon

    James W. Ziskin: Bombay Monsoon

    India’s June 1975 ‘State Emergency’ is still debated as a dark era in the country’s history. It was a period of inordinate confinement, depression of civil rights, the silencing of opponents, and the deep censorship of the press. Into a volatile environment tyro reporter Danny Jacobs is sent to investigate and report. He arrives days…

  • Sam Wiebe: Sunset and Jericho

    Available May 16, 2023: Pre-Order Here Dave is going through the motions at Wakeland & Chen. It’s good that the security side of the business has clients, as the private investigation cases are few and the compensation paltry. A call from the mayor’s office brings some movement. Her brother Jeremy Fell is missing and the…

  • Ripley Jones: Missing Clarissa

    Ripley Jones: Missing Clarissa

    Cam Muñoz and Blair Johnson are working on a journalism project assigned by their teacher. The subject, and how they choose to cover it, is up to them. Clarissa Campbell has been missing from Oreville, Washington, for more than 20-years. Muñoz thinks doing a podcast on this hometown girl could lead to fame and fortune,…

  • Eryk Pruitt: Something Bad Wrong

    Eryk Pruitt: Something Bad Wrong

    Available May 1, 2023 Pre-Order Here Jess Keeler is doing a true crime podcast. It’s not just any crime, it’s about her grandfather, Sheriff’s Deputy Jim Ballard, and an unsolved double murder from 1972. A young couple went missing and their bodies were found tied to trees -it wasn’t pretty. “Big Jim” Ballard is assigned…

  • Leanne Kale Sparks: Every Missing Girl

    Leanne Kale Sparks: Every Missing Girl

    Frankie is a great hockey player. The team welcomed her, with the exception of one player who felt she had stolen his spot. When Frankie disappears from her home town rink the search is on. Has she run away? It seems unlikely for her but you never know with teenagers. If someone took her they…

  • Mary Ann Miller: Bones Under the Ice

    Mary Ann Miller: Bones Under the Ice

    Pre-Order Here Jhonni Laurent is the Sheriff of Field’s Crossing, Indiana, and unsurprisingly, the first female sheriff. Her patch is rural farm country and generally not much happens. During a blizzard the body of teenager Stephanie Gattison is found in a park where the city trucks dump the snow. Did she die in the park…

  • George Albert Brown: Who Killed Jerusalem

    George Albert Brown: Who Killed Jerusalem

    Ickey Jerusalem is a noted poet in 1970s California. It’s somewhat incongruous then, when his body is discovered in an airplane toilet amid flight. Aboard the flight is Dedalus “Ded” Smith, recently divorced insurance claims adjuster. Sick over his divorce and tired to death of his dead end job. Upon deplaning in San Francisco, Smith…

  • Mark Atley: A Bright Young Man

    Mark Atley: A Bright Young Man

    Charlie McQueen is a Hollywood stuntman and an aspiring actor. He’s just been given an opportunity to act in a movie about a murder that took place in his hometown of Pawhuska, Oklahoma. The movie’s producer, River Rhodes, is on a bit of vengeance trip with this production. The script is really the story about…