What Are You Reading?

August 19, 2021

It’s the third week of the month, so I’m on deadline for Library Journal. I read four books over the weekend to review for them, and I’m finishing the last book today. That means I don’t have a book to discuss this week. I read all of those...

Graveyard Fields by Steven Tingle

August 18, 2021

In Steven Tingle’s debut, Graveyard Fields, he takes an inept cop turned equally incompetent private investigator, stomps him into the ground, and turns all of his actions into a tragic comedy. I don’t know when I felt so frustrated with a character, and...

Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger

August 17, 2021

Lightning Strike is the eighteenth Cork O’Connor mystery by William Kent Krueger, but don’t hesitate to pick it up if you haven’t read the other books. The sensitive, moving book is a prequel, set in the summer of 1963 when Cork is twelve. Krueger...

Thomas Kies, Guest Author

August 16, 2021

I met Tom Kies at a Poisoned Pen book conference just about the time his first book, Random Road, was released. Now, his fourth Geneva Chase Crime Reporter novel, Shadow Hill, is out. His short bio on The Poisoned Pen Bookstore’s website doesn’t do justice...

Jim Hanvey, Detective by Octavus Roy Cohen

August 15, 2021

Readers sometimes ask for mysteries without murder. Octavus Roy Cohen’s Jim Hanvey, Detective, fits the bill. The seven stories in the collection, first published in 1923, feature Jim Hanvey, who investigates con men and thieves. The stories originally appeared...