Pony Confidential by Christina Lynch

November 06, 2024

A month ago, I reviewed Paula Munier’s The Night Woods, and mentioned that the theme was related to The Odyssey. Here’s a second mystery, with an even larger connection, Christina Lynch’s unusual Pony Confidential. I’m not crazy when I say how...

Ashes Never Lie by Lee Goldberg

September 16, 2024

Although Lee Goldberg’s Ashes Never Lie is the second novel featuring his arson investigators Walter Sharpe and Andrew Walker, the author manages to incorporate his other series characters, Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone, into this complex story. He adds a corpse...

Fatal Intrusion by Jeffery Deaver & Isabella Maldonado

September 02, 2024

Two bestselling authors, Jeffery Deaver and Isabella Maldonado, team up for the first in a new series featuring two people with unusual hunting skills. But Carmen Sanchez and Professor Jake Heron also have an unpleasant history. Carmen Sanchez is a former FBI agent...

The Gatekeeper by James Byrne

August 21, 2024

I was lucky enough to read James Byrne’s forthcoming book, Chain Reaction, the third in the Dez Limerick series of thrillers. That book will be released January 28. In the meantime, I went back and picked up The Gatekeeper. I still have the second, Deadlock, to...

A Very Woodsy Murder by Ellen Byron

July 23, 2024

Ellen Byron is the award-winning author of the Cajun Country mysteries, the Vintage Cookbook cozies, and, as Maria DiRico, the Catering Hall ones. Now, she puts her experience as a TV sitcom writer to good use with the first Golden Motel Mystery, A Very Woodsy Murder....