Inside Man by John McMahon

January 13, 2026

FBI agent Gardner Camden in back with his Head Cases team in the second in John McMahon’s series, Inside Man. This one has a more technical focus than the first in the series, Head Cases. That one focused more on the characters on Camden’s team. There are...

The Briar Club by Kate Quinn

July 09, 2024

I’ll admit I sometimes bog down in the history in Kate Quinn’s novels, and I love history. Quinn is the author of The Diamond Eye and The Huntress, among other books. But, The Briar Club! I only slowed down toward the conclusion of this book because I...

Hall of Mirrors by John Copenhaver

June 03, 2024

I didn’t read the first in John Copenhaver’s Nightingale Trilogy, The Savage Kind, and it isn’t necessary to have that background before reading Hall of Mirrors. However, it wouldn’t hurt to meet Judy Nightingale and Philippa Watson in the...

That Others May Live by Sara Driscoll

December 02, 2023

Fans have probably been waiting for the seventh book in the FBI K-9 series, That Others May Live, for a while. Jen J. Danna, half of the writing team of Sara Driscoll explains the delay. due to the death of her writing partner, Ann Vanderlaan. But, before Vanderlaan...

Dangerous Women by Mark de Castrique

October 25, 2023

If Mark de Castrique’s first mystery featuring retired FBI agent Ethel Fiona Crestwater, Secret Lives, was a little too confusing with all the cryptocurrency, try the second book, Dangerous Women. It’s hard not to fall under the sway of the resourceful...