Montana private investigator Cassie Dewell is working on two cases in Treasure State, the sixth in the Highway Quartet series. [Why is it book six of a series of four (the definition of quartet)? I have no idea.] Cassie’s first case is a bit of a puzzle. A poem hasContinue Reading
In A Private Cathedral, ex-cop Dave Robicheaux and his best friend Clete are trying to save teenager Isolde Balangie from abuse by Mark Shondell. But there is much more going on here. The Balangie and Shondell families have hated each other for four hundred years. Hoping to finally end theContinue Reading
My Review: Down these mean streets, a man must go. It’s thirty years after the heyday of black and white film and book noir, when Shane Cleary walks the mean streets of 1970s Boston, the Dirty Old Town. Shane is a private eye trying to survive after returning from theContinue Reading
Gone by Midnight is the third book in the Crimson Lake thriller series. When eight-year-old Richie goes missing while in a room with three other young boys, his mother Sara asks for discredited private detective Ted to assist the police in finding her son. Ted brings in his wild “don’tContinue Reading
Glitter, Glam, and Contraband: A Delanie Fitzgerald Mystery by Heather Leigh Weidner Author Interview Delanie and Duncan are private investigators in your series. Have you ever wanted to be a PI in real life? I’m a CK (cop’s kid). My dad was on the force in Virginia Beach for 46Continue Reading
Captivating character study of what happens when two young sisters disappear one morning. Kylie is 10 and a fire-cracker who back-talks her mother and uses her makeup. Bailey is 8 and loves school especially vocabulary. Jamie, their mother, needed to pick up a quick kid’s birthday gift for a partyContinue Reading
More like Dickens than Sherlock Holmes. Arrowood is a private investigator in Victorian London. He is jealous of his rival, Sherlock Holmes, who gets all the rich clients while he is stuck with London’s less desirable denizens. His latest client is looking for her brother, who disappeared while workingContinue Reading
A Nun and a Detective Walk Into a Bar in Las Vegas… I have never read any other books by this author but I love mysteries that have new settings and a good hook and this book delivers on both. The book begins in New Mexico but spends most ofContinue Reading