An Old Man’s Game by Andy Weinberger

December 07, 2019

It’s sort of disturbing to realize Amos Parisman, a retired PI in Los Angeles, is only a few years older than I am. He was a Marine in Vietnam, then a private investigator for forty years. He and his wife, Loretta, are aging in a retirement home when he’s...

Good Man Gone Bad by Gar Anthony Haywood

October 13, 2019

It’s been a long time since I read one of Gar Anthony Haywood’s books. In the mid-90s, I read the two books he wrote about Joe and Dottie Loudermilk, a retired African-American couple who traveled the U.S. in their camper. I had never read any of the Aaron...

The Off-Islander by Peter Colt

September 25, 2019

Although debut author Peter Colt is younger than his character, Andy Roark, his experiences and his acquaintances must have helped create the Vietnam vet turned private investigator. Colt himself is a police officer in a small New England city. He spent over twenty...

The Truth Behind the Lie by Sara Lovestam

August 21, 2019

Sara Lovestam’s detective story, The Truth Behind the Lie, has several unusual twists. One of them will surprise readers in the very last line of the book. Kouplan is desperate to make ends meet in Stockholm. The undocumented Iranian refugee risks everything by...

Twisted at the Root by Ellen Hart

August 13, 2019

I am not a fan of unreliable narrators in books. Ellen Hart does not feature an unreliable narrator in her latest Jane Lawless mystery, Twisted at the Root. However, I don’t know when I’ve met such a dislikable cast of lying suspects. Rashad May and...