Murder at the Jubilee Rally by Terry Shames

October 05, 2022

Terry Shames’ last Samuel Craddock mystery, A Risky Undertaking for Loretta Singletary, came out in 2019. I couldn’t be happier that Severn House picked up the series. Shames’ latest, Murder at the Jubilee Rally, proves that neither she nor Craddock...

A Reluctant Saint by Tricia Fields

August 29, 2022

September is so jammed with good books that I’ve already read that I was forced to move the review of Tricia Fields’ latest Josie Gray mystery to today, and A Reluctant Saint isn’t even released until September 6. But, once I discovered these police...

Pay Dirt Road by Samantha Jayne Allen

April 18, 2022

Samantha Jayne Allen’s mystery debut, Pay Dirt Road, was the winner of the 2019 Hillerman Prize. To me, that indicates a quality mystery set in the Southwest that captures the local atmosphere of the setting, just as Tony Hillerman’s books did. In this...

The Investigator by John Sandford

April 11, 2022

If you’ve read John Sandford’s novels about Lucas Davenport, you’ve undoubtedly read about his adopted daughter, Letty. Her experiences as a child are rehashed in The Investigator, so even if you don’t remember her, or never read a Lucas...

Kevin’s Corner Annex – the Last Second Chance

March 18, 2022

Kevin Tipple has an eclectic taste in crime fiction, but, as a resident of Texas, he has a fondness for mysteries that take place in that state. Here’s his review of The Last Second Chance by Jim Nesbitt. The Last Second Chance   An Ed Earl Burch...