Hide by Tracy Clark

December 28, 2022

Tracy Clark’s Cass Raines series won the Sue Grafton Award twice, and was nominated for a number of other awards. Hide, the first Detective Harriet Foster thriller, is even better with a well-developed, broken protagonist struggling to keep her life together one...

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...

Find Me by Alafair Burke

January 11, 2022

While NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher isn’t the primary focus of Alafair Burke’s Find Me, some of us who followed her over eight years ago finally have answers, as does Ellie. It takes a complex storyline and a missing woman, but Ellie finally has a...

Gone by Morning by Michele Weinstat Miller

August 14, 2021

Michele Weinstat Miller’s debut crime novel, Gone by Morning, was good enough that I gave it a starred review in my journal review. It has such a great twist as the ending. Just perfect. But, it’s a difficult book to summarize because there are multiple...

Hide Away by Jason Pinter

May 23, 2020

I seldom read thrillers. In fact, I agree with the way the British handle mysteries and thrillers and  suspense novels, lumping them together as crime fiction. Jason Pinter’s Hide Away fits the crime fiction category. It has elements of all of those...