FBI Special Agent Matt Costas is head of the Bureau’s Mobile Response Team. The Team is a multi-agency unit that rushes to the scenes of crimes. This time, nine people are dead after a bomb explodes aboard a charter boat cruise off the San Juan Islands of Washington state. TheContinue Reading
In The Missing Piece, defense attorney (and former District Attorney) Wes Farrell is feeling burnt out representing people he believes are guilty. Wes’ latest client, Doug Rush, is accused of murdering recently exonerated Paul Riley. Riley served eleven years for raping and murdering Doug’s daughter. The Exoneration Initiative (a thinlyContinue Reading
It’s always a pleasure to ride along with psychologist Alex and LAPD detective Milo on one of their only-in-LA cases. City of the Dead, the 37th book in the Alex Delaware series, is no exception. A pseudo-psychologist is found dead in her house with her throat slashed. Outside nearby aContinue Reading
In The Corpse Flower, a lawyer is killed in his home in Denmark. His home security camera picks up the image of Anna, covered in blood, staring up at the camera. She then disappears. No connection is found by the police between the victim and the suspect. Years later, Heloise,Continue Reading
The Darkness Knows the best thing about this book. Usually, I love Nordic noir. However, this book is so slow paced. Glacier-speed slow. In the 1700s. So, what is the best thing about it? It has solved my insomnia. I read three chapters and then zzzzz… Konrad is a retiredContinue Reading
There are a whole bushel of subplots uncomfortably shoving each other aside in A Good Day for Chardonnay. Despite that issue, the great and unusual characters keep me coming back to this series. That and the zany, laugh-out-loud humor. “Does your heart say chocolate and wine, but your jeans say,Continue Reading
Even the Amish have secrets! Ride along with Sheriff Kate Burkholder as she chases a vicious murderer in a rural Ohio town in Fallen. Rachel was Amish. She was also recently alive. But after returning to her hometown, she was beaten to death in her motel room. “Painters Mill wasContinue Reading
Chief Inspector Richard Langley of the arts and antiquities unit of new Scotland yard is tasked with finding a priceless stolen El Greco painting. He is also investigating the murder of the owner’s Russian girlfriend at the scene of the theft in Stealing the Spanish Princess. “Art crime was nowContinue Reading
Buddy has been called home to Freedom in Risk Factor, the fourth entry in the series. Buddy’s father, Freedom’s Sheriff, wants to step down. He has ALS and a recent break-in of his home has shaken his confidence. While Buddy refuses the interim Sheriff role, he does return as aContinue Reading
In Black Coral, Detective Sloan McPherson is a diver with the newly created Underwater Investigative Unit within the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. While pulling a car accident victim from a canal, Sloan finds a thirty-year-old crime scene. Four long-missing teenagers are the victim of a serial killer who hasn’tContinue Reading
In Bending the Paw, Fort Worth Police Officer Megan and her K-9 partner, Brigit, are helping Detective Audrey Jackson investigate a missing person, Greg Olsen. Judging by the amount of blood left in his kitchen, it is a probably a murder rather than a kidnapping case. The obvious suspect, Greg’sContinue Reading
The game is afoot In a Midnight Wood, the 27th book in the Jane Lawless series. Jane Lawless is busy! She runs a successful restaurant in Minnesota. She is a part-time true crime podcaster always on the hunt for new stories. Jane is also a licensed private investigator. While visitingContinue Reading
In The Darkest Evening, Inspector Vera Stanhope of the Northumbria Police is driving home in a blinding snowstorm when she finds a car abandoned by the side of the road. The driver’s door is wide open. There is a sleeping baby in a car seat in the back. Failing toContinue Reading
“A large axe was placed in the girl’s right hand. Along the white granite bench, the words ‘as above, so below’ were painted in blood. Nine baboon figurines encircled the girl like an audience observing her in death.”— from the great new police procedural thriller, Cut to the Bone. Nearby,Continue Reading
Is a serial killer at work in a poor rural town? How has he (or she) Hid from Our Eyes for so long? Someone is killing young girls and leaving them in the middle of rural route 137 in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York. The girls are dressedContinue Reading
Girl Can’t Help It brings together an aging rock band for a reunion and a place in the Iowa Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Unfortunately, it also brings a murderer to the party. I had no idea that there was any rock and roll history in Iowa. So thatContinue Reading