A Harmless Lie by Sara Blaedel

March 20, 2022

Sometimes, I have troubles with translations, and wonder if it’s the author or the translator. I didn’t have that problem with Sara Blaedel’s A Harmless Lie, translated by Mark Kline. The voices of troubled women seemed perfect in this riveting...

Beach Wedding by Michael Ledwidge

February 14, 2022

What better title for Valentine’s Day than Beach Wedding? Although, it’s certainly not a romantic book. If you recognize Michael Ledwidge’s name, it might be because he’s one of James Patterson’s co-authors. Ledwidge takes a page from...

The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney & Ian Rankin

September 05, 2021

When I saw that Ian Rankin had completed an unfinished manuscript by the late William McIlvanney, D.I. Ladlaw’s first case, I thought, “I’m in.” Bloody Scotland’s McIlvanney Prize, awarded to the Scottish Crime Book of the Year, is named...

Outsider by Linda Castillo

July 07, 2020

Linda Castillo’s Kate Burkholder novels create more tension than most books I read. This series is one of my favorite ones, yet I have to pause while I read the books because they’re stressful. Outsider, with Kate isolated with just an Amish family...

Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny

November 27, 2018

It’s always difficult to review one of Louise Penny’s books. The plots are so entwined with the characters that it’s not easy to summarize the book without revealing too much. It’s release date for Kingdom of the Blind, the first book Penny...