Wolf Kill by Cary J. Griffith

June 15, 2021

Author Cary J. Griffith originally published this book in 2013 as Wolves. Now, it has been reedited and rebranded as Wolf Kill, the first in a four book Sam Rivers mystery series. I don’t know what Griffith and his editor, Mary Logue, changed, but this is a...

The Killing Hills by Chris Offutt

June 14, 2021

The last book I read that used language so beautifully, so sparingly, and created such a vivid picture of a place, was James Anderson’s The Never-Open Desert Diner. Chris Offutt’s The Killing Hills takes readers into rural Kentucky with a hero whose story...

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....

Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

October 07, 2020

Winter Counts is David Heska Wanbli Weiden’s powerful debut novel. Set on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, it introduces Virgil Wounded Horse who has lived through almost every Native stereotype believed by white people. He lives in a dirty house...

The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben

March 16, 2020

Will I be expelled from the crime fiction community if I admit I had never read one of Harlan Coben’s standalone novels before? There’s no reason. I’ve always heard good things about these books, and I’ve read several of the Myron Bolitar...