Death Casts a Shadow by Patricia Skalka

August 21, 2022

Death Casts a Shadow is the seventh and final book in Patricia Skalka’s excellent Dave Cubiak Door County mystery series. Her notes at the end of the book say she completed the arc she had planned for Dave Cubiak. She took him from a broken man through almost...

Dangerous Consequences by Claire Booth

May 03, 2022

Claire Booth’s Sheriff Hank Worth mysteries just continue to get better. Dangerous Consequences, the fifth in the series, can be read without having read previous books. However, there are several continuing storylines, including one I wasn’t familiar with...

When the Corn is Waist High by Jeremy Scott

April 19, 2022

I picked up Jeremy Scott’s When the Corn is Waist High because it’s set in Indiana farm country. Honestly? It’s not very complimentary about the people, but it’s witty with a dry humor that I appreciate. It also has two big twists. I...

Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger

August 17, 2021

Lightning Strike is the eighteenth Cork O’Connor mystery by William Kent Krueger, but don’t hesitate to pick it up if you haven’t read the other books. The sensitive, moving book is a prequel, set in the summer of 1963 when Cork is twelve. Krueger...

Bad Moon Rising by John Galligan

June 27, 2021

Sheriff Heidi Kick and her understaffed team in Bad Axe County, Wisconsin have more troubles than any small force should have to handle. In John Galligan’s Bad Moon Rising, they have a larger cast of bizarre characters than any book should have to handle....