Fallen Star by Lee Goldberg

October 22, 2025

Despite the threat of Russian mobsters and snipers, Eve Ronin and her partner Duncan Pavone of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department refuse to give up on their latest homicide, one that turns into a multiple homicide case. Readers can read Lee Goldberg’s...

Hidden in Smoke by Lee Goldberg

April 21, 2025

In the third thriller in his Sharpe and Walker series, Hidden in Smoke, Lee Goldberg brings back a character from the first book, Malibu Burning. But, Goldberg and I both want to emphasize that you can start with this book, although it’s more fun if you read the...

Under the Paper Moon by Shaina Steinberg

April 24, 2024

When I don’t care for a book, I always say, this one wasn’t for me, but others may love it. I hate when I have to say that about a debut, but Shaina Steinberg’s historical mystery, Under the Paper Moon, didn’t work for me at all. I found the...

Hero by Thomas Perry

January 20, 2024

I was eager to read Thomas Perry’s Hero, a standalone thriller featuring a cat and mouse game as a killer hunts a private security agent. With no character development, though, it was just an ordinary cat and mouse chase for over three hundred pages. Justine...

My Cousin Skinny by E.J. Copperman

November 08, 2023

What can be worse than returning home to a cousin’s wedding, and facing a judgmental mother and older sister? For Sandy Moss, in E.J. Copperman’s My Cousin Skinny, it’s seeing the bride-to-be covered in blood while insisting she wants Sandy as her...