Devil of Delphi by Jeffrey Siger

October 09, 2015

I really should have talked about Jeffrey Siger’s Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis mysteries when Kristopher Zgorski, Dru Ann Love and I did the Triple Threat, but we could only pick five series. Maybe next time we do something similar I’ll be able to add...

Idyll Threats by Stephanie Gayle

September 07, 2015

Stephanie Gayle’s first Thomas Lynch novel, Idyll Threats, is intense and suspenseful, with a brooding, introspective  hero. It’s set in Idyll, Connecticut, a town whose name is ironic and mocking to Thomas Lynch. It’s a police procedural with a...

Death in Brittany by Jean-Luc Bannalec

June 29, 2015

Ready for an atmospheric, traditional police procedural? Jean-Luc Bannalec’s Death in Brittany was a bestseller for many months in Germany after its 2012 publication there. It’s not a fast-paced thriller, though, so it won’t make the bestseller lists...

Noontime Follies by Elizabeth Gunn

June 15, 2015

I usually put every other book aside to read Elizabeth Gunn’s latest Jake Hines mystery. There’s just something logical and satisfying about these police procedurals set in Rutherford, Minnesota. Noontime Follies is no exception. Jake Hines runs...

Rock with Wings by Anne Hillerman

May 20, 2015

Anne Hillerman has a gift for descriptive writing about the Southwest. She may have inherited her father’s characters, Leaphorn and Chee, but she took that inheritance and made it her own. She puts her own spin on the descriptions, the characters, and the...