Dead End by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

April 27, 2019

Detective Inspector Bill Slider and Detective Sergeant Jim Atherton have two different views of their latest investigation in Cynthia Harrod-Eagles’ fourth Bill Slider mystery, Dead End. It’s another fascinating police procedural with characters who...

The Dark Winter by David Mark

April 23, 2019

I’m always happy to stumble across a police procedural series in which the officer’s family life is included. My all-time favorite example of this is Dorothy Simpson’s Luke Thanet series, set in Kent, England. David Mark introduces Detective Sergeant...

The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith

April 15, 2019

I know I’m in a minority of crime fiction readers. This was my first novel by Alexander McCall Smith.  And, unless I receive another one to review, The Department of Sensitive Crimes will be my last. The slow pace, and the story in which very little...

Orchestrated Death by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

March 27, 2019

I didn’t know how the first Bill Slider mystery would hold up. I hadn’t read any of the books in the series when I received the most recent one, Headlong, for review. I’m a fan of police procedurals, and this book introduced me to a group of...

The Overnight Kidnapper by Andrea Camilleri

March 26, 2019

Whether it’s the actual writing or the translation by Stephen Sartarelli, the twenty-third book in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series, The Overnight Kidnapper, has enough humor involving the office staff at the police department to make it a Sicilian...