Tricky by Josh Stallings

January 18, 2021

Josh Stallings’ Tricky is one of my favorite books read for January. He puts an interesting twist on a police procedural, and forces Niels Madsen, his protagonist, to look at a criminal from a fresh viewpoint. Is a lifelong criminal able to change? The “bad guys”...

What Waits for You by Joseph Schneider

January 04, 2021

I really liked Joseph Schneider’s debut crime novel, One Day You’ll Burn. It was a little grittier than the books I normally read, but I liked LAPD Homicide Detective Tully Jarsdel. The sophomore effort, though, What Waits for You, was an effort to read....

The Last Curtain Call by Juliet Blackwell

June 30, 2020

A Ghostly Light, the last Haunted Home Renovation Mystery, came out in 2017. However, Juliet Blackwell’s fans have nothing to worry about. The author hasn’t lost her touch. In fact, Mel Turner, “ghost-talking psychic home renovator” only seems...

Find Me by Anne Frasier

June 27, 2020

I’m an outlier. While psychological thrillers have been popular in the last couple years, I’m not a fan. I don’t like unreliable narrators. And, I am not interested in serial killer novels that get inside the mind of a killer. Give me a traditional...

Good Man Gone Bad by Gar Anthony Haywood

October 13, 2019

It’s been a long time since I read one of Gar Anthony Haywood’s books. In the mid-90s, I read the two books he wrote about Joe and Dottie Loudermilk, a retired African-American couple who traveled the U.S. in their camper. I had never read any of the Aaron...