One Last Chance by Jeffrey Siger

April 05, 2022

There are some mysteries that are so tightly woven together that it’s difficult to review them without spoilers. I always have that problem with Jeffrey Siger’s Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis mysteries set in Greece. In each book, he takes us to a...

Under Color of Law by Aaron Philip Clark

October 02, 2021

Racism. Fear. Violence. Lies and corruption. It’s all part of the culture of the Los Angeles Police Department in Aaron Philip Clark’s Under Color of Law. And, a young Black police officer is caught up in it. Trevor Finnegan has had some bad days. There...

The Disappearance of Trudy Solomon by Marcy McCreary

September 12, 2021

How do authors handle a police procedural written nowadays? Marcy McCreary’s debut, The Disappearance of Trudy Solomon, introduces a fifty-three-year-old police detective who questions her own actions after a shooting. In fact, Detective Susan Ford questions the...

A Distant Grave by Sarah Stewart Taylor

June 22, 2021

I loved Sarah Stewart Taylor’s first Maggie D’Arcy novel, The Mountains Wild. It was one of my favorite books of 2020. It was atmospheric with a strong sense of place, set in both Ireland and Long Island. The second book, A Distant Grave, has more of a...

Telling Tales by Ann Cleeves

April 24, 2021

All those books in my place, and one Saturday I couldn’t find anything I wanted to read. I really wanted a traditional mystery because I had just watched “Agatha Christie’s England” on PBS. So, I turned to Ann Cleeves and the second Vera...