The Cyclist by Tim Sullivan

August 12, 2025

I am in love with DS George Cross, not as a person, but as a character in a police procedural. I have the feeling he would be an exasperating person in real life, and very difficult to work with. But, his partner, DS Josie Ottey is making progress in Tim...

His Burial Too by Catherine Aird

August 09, 2025

Nero Wolfe has his orchids. Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan has his roses. There he is, in the middle of a complicated case in Catherine Aird’s His Burial Too, and he’s worried that his Princess Grace rose will peak before a show on Saturday. Little things...

Sheriff Dan Rhodes Series Refresh

August 06, 2025

Readers have been asking me when Bill Crider’s Sheriff Dan Rhodes series will be refreshed and available. An email from Tom Neary, Bill Crider’s son-in-law, answers those questions. Tom and Angela Crider Neary are kicking off the refresh of the series with...

Throwing Shadows by Claire Booth

August 05, 2025

Claire Booth’s Sheriff Hank Worth books are some of my favorite police procedural series. A warning, though. This is a series you really should read from the beginning, starting with The Branson Beauty. The small sheriff’s team in Branson, Missouri...

Hunter’s Heart Ridge by Sarah Stewart Taylor

August 03, 2025

I don’t know exactly what to say about Sarah Stewart Taylor’s Hunter’s Heart Ridge, the second in her Bethany, Vermont series. I like her two main characters, Vermont State Police detective Frank Warren and Alice Bellows, a widow who grew up in...