Red, White & Blue Murder by Bill Crider

February 09, 2025

After finishing Bill Crider’s twelfth Sheriff Dan Rhodes mystery, Red, White & Blue Murder, I admire his storytelling skills even more. Although the books are all set in a small area in Texas, Crider doesn’t hesitate to include the regular residents of...

Kills Well with Others by Deanna Raybourn

February 05, 2025

While I enjoyed Deanna Raybourn’s second book featuring her retired spies, Kills Well with Others, I preferred the first in the series, Killers of a Certain Age. It’s not the author’s fault that I’ve read so many books since then that feature...

Bonded in Death by J.D. Robb

February 04, 2025

J.D. Robb’s Bonded in Death is the sixtieth book in her “In Death” series, but it may be the best in the series. She’s still at the top of her game, bringing Lieutenant Eve Dallas a crime from the past. When Giovanni Rossi was killed in a limo...

Stone Certainty by Simon R. Green

February 03, 2025

The Holy Terrors are back in Simon R. Green’s second mystery to feature them, but I found Stone Certainty a little disappointing. There’s a line in the book that usually describes Green’s books, “Hip-deep in sudden death, with supernatural...

Loose Lips by Kemper Donovan

January 21, 2025

Kemper Donovan has achieved that rare feat. His second Ghostwriter mystery is better than his first, The Busy Body, in my opinion. Loose Lips takes the Ghostwriter, now working under the pseudonym Belle Currer, on a cruise with 300 suspects. As Belle Currer, the...