Reviews + Articles
What Are You Reading?
Are you reading or have you read any of the Anthony Award nominees? The award nominees were announced yesterday, and they will be voted on, and presented at Bouchercon 2019 in Dallas on November 2. Before you tell us what you're actually reading, here's the list of...
Cleaning the Gold by Karin Slaughter and Lee Child
This past weekend, I actually read an eBook. I don't often, but Karin Slaughter and Lee Child teamed up for a short story, Cleaning the Gold, and I can handle reading short stories digitally. Best of all, for those of you who don't care to read eBooks, it will...
Roger Wall, Guest Author
When Wiley Saichek of Saichek Publicity asks if I'll host a guest author, he usually suggests that the author write about libraries. Wiley knows how much I appreciate those types of posts. Today, I'm hosting author Roger Wall, whose novel, During-the-Event, is...
Girl Gone Missing by Marcie R. Rendon
Marcie R. Rendon's Girl Gone Missing, the second Cash Blackbear mystery, is a strong followup to Murder on the Red River. Only a member of a Native American nation, as the author is, could tell such an authentic story of a brooding, displaced young woman....
Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault by Cathy Guisewite
What better day than Mother's Day to review Cathy Guisewite's Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault? The essay collection, like Guisewite's "Cathy" cartoons, is filled with family relationships and guilt. It's subtitled "Essays from the Grown-Up Years", but anyone...
Milwaukee Noir, edited by Tim Hennessy
Milwaukee Noir, edited by Tim Hennessy, is the latest collection of dark stories from Akashic Books, who specialize in noir anthologies. There's nothing positive nor uplifting about Milwaukee, if these stories are any indication. However, that's the point of noir,...