On an Outgoing Tide by Caro Ramsay

April 18, 2021

I’m going to be totally honest here. While I enjoyed Caro Ramsay’s On an Outgoing Tide, I also felt completely lost at times. The book is the twelfth in an ongoing police procedural series set in Glasgow featuring Detective Inspector Colin Anderson, his...

Last Seen Wearing by Hillary Waugh

February 06, 2021

While I enjoyed Hillary Waugh’s police procedural, Last Seen Wearing, I appreciated the introduction to the book even more. Leslie S. Klinger wrote the introduction and notes to this latest addition to the Library of Congress Crime Classics series. Klinger says...

Tricky by Josh Stallings

January 18, 2021

Josh Stallings’ Tricky is one of my favorite books read for January. He puts an interesting twist on a police procedural, and forces Niels Madsen, his protagonist, to look at a criminal from a fresh viewpoint. Is a lifelong criminal able to change? The “bad guys”...

Fatal Divisions by Claire Booth

January 05, 2021

Fatal Divisions is Claire Booth’s fourth Hank Worth mystery featuring the sheriff of Branson County, Missouri. I love these kind of small-town or community police procedurals. It reminds me of Steven Havill’s Posadas County mysteries. This one finds Sheriff Worth and...

The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves

September 28, 2020

While Ann Cleeves always makes a reader feel sympathy for the victim, in this latest Vera Stanhope novel, The Darkest Evening, it was Vera who moved me. She has never seemed so vulnerable, so lonely. Even her team recognized that this case was personal for Vera,...