Have You Heard? William Kent Krueger’s Manitou Canyon

With the news that the nineteenth book in William Kent Krueger’s Cork O’Connor series, Fox Creek, will be released in August, I thought it was time to share another of Sandie Herron’s reviews of the audiobooks in the series. Manitou Canyon is the...

Sins of Edom by Carl Brookins

There’s so many directions a reviewer could go with Carl Brookins’ Sins of Edom. The mystery is one of his Senior Sleuth novels featuring Alan Lockem, a retired army intelligence officer and his partner, Marjorie Kane, a retired exotic dancer with...

All the Queen’s Men by S.J. Bennett

Sometimes, the second book in s series doesn’t live up to the first one. That’s not the case with S.J. Bennett’s second Her Majesty the Queen Investigates mystery, All the Queen’s Men. For some reason, I found the mystery and the characters...

The Day He Left by Frederick Weisel

A couple weeks ago, one of the blog readers mentioned he quit a book because the author never developed the characters. Although that book was the second in the series, he said he didn’t know anything about the main character. That isn’t a problem with...

Fadeout by Joseph Hansen

Joseph Hansen’s first Dave Brandstetter mystery, Fadeout, was published fifty years ago in 1970. Because Soho’s Syndicate Books is republishing the books, I recommend that you read this edition. If you haven’t already discovered the series,...