"I’ve made corpses before but never loved it." Alma Rosales can be many things: a Pinkerton agent, a naive young Scottish girl, a gruff dock worker, a poor Southern worker woman. A shape-shifter, a chameleon, one who is willing to play any angle to get the information she needs. Now in Townsend, Washington working for Delphine... Continue Reading →
A Borrowing of Bones by Paula Munier
‘Where there’s woods, there’s wacky…’ Paula Munier’s A Borrowing of Bones is an exciting thriller set in Vermont with two well-trained canines as the star detectives. The author brings together a bomb-sniffing Malinois named Elvis, who has some PTSD symptoms, and a Search and Rescue Newfoundland named Susie Bear. Armed with few clues, former MP... Continue Reading →
4 Great May Thrillers
Here's a list of some very good thrillers I've reviewed that will release this month. Like my past lists, I'll write a quick blurb and provide a link to my full review: The Crooked Staircase by Dean Koontz: The third book in Koontz's Jane Hawk series. Hawk continues her mission to take down the dark... Continue Reading →
American by Day by Derek B. Miller
I will begin my review by saying that when I finished Derek B. Miller’s American by Day, I saw it more as a piece of fiction than a boxed-up mystery. A Norwegian cop travels to the United States to find her missing brother. Ok, fish-out-of-water tale where the Scandinavian is going to teach the Americans... Continue Reading →
The Smiling Man (Aiden Waits #2) by Joseph Knox
Biting gallows humor and backstabbing deeds. Confidence men, prostitutes, and misanthropic cops who are addicted to the beat, and for some, to the drugs they’re supposed to keep off the street. Aiden Waits is a detective inspector in Manchester, UK, who has been relegated to the night shift because of past sins and thrown-upon political... Continue Reading →