Bloody Genius by John Sandford

September 29, 2019

John Sandford is a bloody genius. I wish I could tell you how he messed up my book review for Bloody Genius, the twelfth Virgil Flowers novel, but it would spoil the book. In fact, that’s what happened. I had an opening sentence all set after I read the...

The Hit by Nadia Dalbuono

August 06, 2019

While Nadia Dalbuono’s crime novel, The Hit, has been out in Australia and the U.K., this is the first edition published in the United States. The third Leone Scarmacio, set in the television world, is evidence of the author’s knowledge of that field. She...

An Unsettled Grave by Bernard Schaffer

July 24, 2019

Some of the comments I saw online said you could read this book without having read the first in the series, Bernard Schaffer’s The Thief of All Light. I disagree. I enjoyed An Unsettled Grave, but I wish I had more background about Detective Carrie...

Shamed by Linda Castillo

July 16, 2019

I love Linda Castillo’s Kate Burkholder books. She has wonderful characters, beginning with Kate, Kate’s love interest, Tomasetti, and the entire police department in Painters Mill, Ohio. But, the cover of her latest book, Shamed, is just wrong. Let...

Night Watch by David C. Taylor

May 04, 2019

David C. Taylor’s author’s note in Night Watch says that it’s the third book in the Michael Cassidy series, but the second in chronological order. Although I haven’t read either of the other two, including the Edgar Award nominated Night...