Reviews + Articles
Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger
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 himself said the...
Thomas Kies, Guest Author
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 to his...
Jim Hanvey, Detective by Octavus Roy Cohen
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 in The...
Gone by Morning by Michele Weinstat Miller
Michele Weinstat Miller's debut crime novel, Gone by Morning, was good enough that I gave it a starred review in my journal review. It has such a great twist as the ending. Just perfect. But, it's a difficult book to summarize because there are multiple viewpoints and...
Winners & A Bookish Giveaway
This week, the books from the last contest are going west. Autumn T. from Portland, OR won Her Dark Lies. Renee G. from Valleyford, WA will receive Gathering Dark. The books are going out in the mail today. This week, I"m giving away mysteries set in the book world....
What Are You Reading?
90s and humid this week, so I'm tucked up at home reading in the evenings. I have a few books to read yet on deadline, so I'm reading something really light and fluffy. What about you? What are you reading this week? And, how are you doing? I have two covers to show...