Speaking of Murder by Les Roberts with Dan S. Kennedy

July 26, 2016

I’ve been a fan of Les Roberts’ Milan Jacovich mysteries for years. They’re set in Cleveland, and it’s evident from the details about the city that Roberts loves Cleveland. And, Milan will remind mystery readers of Robert B. Parker’s...

A Killing in Amish Country by Gregg Olsen & Rebecca Morris

July 24, 2016

What do you look for when you read true crime? I seldom read it because I read some that went into too much graphic detail as to the crime itself.  If I read true crime, I guess I want it to be like Law & Order, the investigation followed by the trial....

Eclair and Present Danger by Laura Bradford

June 04, 2016

I’ve been talking about Laura Bradford’s new mystery, Eclair and Present Danger, and her new series so long that it feels as if I’ve already reviewed the book. The author of the Amish mysteries launches the Emergency Dessert Squad series with a fun...

Disappearing Ink by Travis McDade

March 21, 2016

“He was quite possibly the least sneaky book thief in the history of the crime, and yet he kept getting away with it.” If a fiction writer wrote about David Breithaupt’s ten years of theft from Kenyon College’s Olive and Chalmers Library,...

Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Olympics by Chris Grabenstein

January 17, 2016

Chris Grabenstein’s latest middle school book is for all of us who love libraries, kids in libraries, and everything libraries stand for. I can’t discuss Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Olympics as passionately as I would like to without spoiling a...