Hard Cold Winter by Glen Erik Hamilton

March 13, 2016

What happens to you when you finish a ten-year career as an Army Ranger, but can’t return to your previous life as a thief? Van Shaw is caught in limbo in Glen Erik Hamilton’s second crime novel, Hard Cold Winter. Van is hoping to find a job in which...

The Ex by Alafair Burke

February 16, 2016

I finally read the book everyone has been raving about, and, it deserves all the accolades. Alafair Burke’s The Ex is a riveting story of a woman who is convinced she ruined a man’s life twenty years later. Now, she has the chance to try to save him one...

Murder in Thrall by Anne Cleeland

December 26, 2015

Anne Cleeland’s characters and her writing style in her first Acton and Doyle Scotland Yard mystery, Murder in Thrall, completely captivated me. This unusual book launched what is now a three-book series, with, hopefully many more to come.  Acton and...

Recap – William Kent Krueger’s Ordinary Grace

September 15, 2015

Last night, I led a book discussion of William Kent Krueger’s Ordinary Grace. So, I wasn’t home to read a book. But, I did have the chance to reread this wonderful book over the weekend in preparation for the book discussion. It’s moving, powerful,...

Idyll Threats by Stephanie Gayle

September 07, 2015

Stephanie Gayle’s first Thomas Lynch novel, Idyll Threats, is intense and suspenseful, with a brooding, introspective  hero. It’s set in Idyll, Connecticut, a town whose name is ironic and mocking to Thomas Lynch. It’s a police procedural with a...