The Lost by Jeffrey B. Burton

June 28, 2022

Mace Reid, Officer Kippy Gumm, and, best of all, Mace’s cadaver dogs, are all back in the third book in the series, The Lost. While Mace’s HRD, human remains detection dogs, especially Vira, are brilliant, and Kippy is streetwise and has flashes of...

Spirits and Smoke by Mary Miley

January 04, 2022

I was so impressed with Mary Miley’s first historical mystery set in 19201s Chicago, The Mystic’s Accomplice. I seldom say the second in the series is even better, but Spirits and Smoke is rich in historical detail. What can be more fascinating as a...

At First Light by Barbara Nickless

November 24, 2021

In the late ’70s and early ’80s, I read George C. Chesbro’s mysteries featuring Dr. Robert “Mongo” Fredrickson who had dwarfism. I didn’t read the later books in the series as they drifted into speculative fiction. Now, one of...

Wolf Point by Ian K. Smith

October 05, 2021

Reader reviews were mixed for Ian K. Smith’s novel that introduces Ashe Cayne, The Unspoken. I suspect it will be the same for the second in the series, Wolf Point. And, I can agree with readers who had issues with Smith’s writing, as well as those who...

The Lost Girls by Jessica Chiarella

July 05, 2021

Jessica Chiarella’s The Lost Girls is a novel outside my comfort zone, but one I enjoyed much more than I expected. I’m not a fan of unreliable narrators. What’s more unreliable than a woman still stuck emotionally at the age of eight, who destroys...