Catch Your Death by Lissa Marie Redmond

August 03, 2022

Over the years, I’ve read most of Lissa Marie Redmond’s Cold Case Investigation mysteries, set in Buffalo, Iceland, Ireland. I’ve followed Buffalo Police Detective Lauren Riley wherever she went with her intriguing cases. In Catch Your Death, she...

Find Me by Alafair Burke

January 11, 2022

While NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher isn’t the primary focus of Alafair Burke’s Find Me, some of us who followed her over eight years ago finally have answers, as does Ellie. It takes a complex storyline and a missing woman, but Ellie finally has a...

Grave Reservations by Cherie Priest

October 26, 2021

Cherie Priest is known as a writer of horror, steampunk, and science fiction, including the Locus Award-winning novel Boneshaker. When she set out to write a mystery, she wrote a witty one set in Seattle, featuring a great cast of characters. Two thumbs up for Grave...

The Heron’s Cry by Ann Cleeves

September 07, 2021

If you missed Ann Cleeves’ introduction to Detective Matthew Venn, you really should go back and read The Long Call. His character, background, marriage are all covered in that first book. Matthew’s husband, Jonathan, and the Woodyard, a community arts...

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....