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”...

Deep Into the Dark by P.J. Tracy

January 12, 2021

If you’ve ever read one of P.J. Tracy’s Monkeewrench books, think back for a moment. Those mysteries are so hard to review without giving away the plot. Granted, we also read them for the emotionally scarred characters, but Tracy knows how to write a...

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 Blues Don’t Care by Paul D. Marks

May 29, 2020

As much as I loved Paul D. Marks’ mystery, The Blues Don’t Care, it’s going to be a difficult book to review. The summary won’t give away anything that isn’t on the book jacket. However, I’ll never be able to capture and define the...

An Old Man’s Game by Andy Weinberger

December 07, 2019

It’s sort of disturbing to realize Amos Parisman, a retired PI in Los Angeles, is only a few years older than I am. He was a Marine in Vietnam, then a private investigator for forty years. He and his wife, Loretta, are aging in a retirement home when he’s...