Gallows View by Peter Robinson

March 16, 2019

I thought I’d never read one of Peter Robinson’s Alan Banks police procedurals when I picked up Gallows View. However, I quickly had that vague feeling of familiarity when I started the book. Even so, I reread the first in the series because I wanted the...

Headlong by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

March 03, 2019

Headlong is the twenty-first Detective Inspector Bill Slider mystery by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, but the first one I read. As a fan of police procedurals, I’ve been missing an intriguing series. Harrod-Eagles follows Shadow Play with a complex story that requires...

The Murder Book by Lissa Marie Redmond

February 02, 2019

Lissa Marie Redmond, a retired cold case detective for the Buffalo Police Dept., returns with the second book in her Cold Case Investigation series, The Murder Book. Police detective Lauren Riley, who made some bad decisions in the first book, A Cold Day in Hell,...

The Second Goodbye by Patricia Smiley

December 09, 2018

Repeat after me, “I wish I had read the first book in the series, but you don’t have to do that to read this book.” It’s become a mantra. Sometimes, you just can’t start at the beginning. Detective Davie Richards is the featured detective...

Lies Come Easy by Steven F. Havill

November 19, 2018

Crime takes no holiday. That’s obvious in Steven F. Havill’s twenty-third Posadas County mystery, Lies Come Easy. It’s set at Christmas, but the small sheriff’s department in the county has to cope with child endangerment, family issues, and...