The Golden Gate is a historical hard-boiled police procedural novel that includes family drama and addresses a lot of buzzy topics like politics, racism, passing, and how the rich are treated differently. The story is set in 1944 in a fashionable hotel where a politician is murdered but has flashbacksContinue Reading
Aisling Cooley is trying to find her father through a DNA website in the latest British police procedural in the DCI Jonas Sheens series. The detectives are searching for a local serial killer when the crime scene DNA is linked to Aisley’s DNA. Could Aisley’s long-lost father be the killer?Continue Reading
Ali Reynolds’ husband B. is almost killed when traveling to the airport to attend a London business conference. The police are sure it was a planned hit. But was B. the intended victim or was he just Collateral Damage in the attempted murder of his hired driver? Disgraced ex-cop FrankContinue Reading
Psychologist Alex Delaware and police detective Milo Sturgis are investigating another bizarre death in the Los Angeles sunshine in Unnatural History. A troubled trust funded photographer is murdered in his bed. Could his murderer be a family member looking to increase their chunk of the family’s future inheritance? Or wasContinue Reading
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