A seemingly drunk man staggers onto a lonely Tokyo bridge at night and collapses. A policeman checks on him and is surprised to find that A Death in Tokyo has occurred. The man is not drunk but instead has been stabbed to death. The police investigate and are suspicious ofContinue Reading
Sheriff Sunshine Vicram is still trying to break up a local moonshine gang while in love with its boss. It’s unfortunate that her fixation is causing her to overpour tequila for herself leading to A Hard Day for a Hangover. A Hard Day for a Hangover is not a standaloneContinue Reading
Ten-year-old Lukas is The Collector of images that looked like faces. He is also missing. Detective Erik Schafer is investigating but the clues have led to nothing. Heloise is Schafer’s friend but also an investigative journalist. It’s Copenhagen in February. A young boy wouldn’t last long in the frozen streets.Continue Reading
It’s always fun to be on a ride-a-long with Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport and the villains are even wilder in Righteous Prey. The Five, a pack of bitcoin billionaires with too much time (and money) on their hands, are killing “bad people” across the United States. When the thirdContinue Reading
In The Binding Room, even the most upstanding people may have a secret or two hiding in their closets. Pastor Caleb is the leader of the popular church he named after himself. One day, the church cleaning lady is surprised to find him stabbed to death on the church floor.Continue Reading
An old school homicide detective gets paired with a young nerdy detective in Pryor & Cummings The GAIA Incident. A computer scientist is found dead locked within a school lab. Video shows him getting shot but no one left the lab afterwards. Can Pryor and Cummings determine how the murderContinue Reading
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