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Detective Inspector Rachel Narey has her back against the wall in Craig Robertson’s The Photographer, the latest book in his Narey and Winter series. The case against tech guru and suspected serial rapist William Broome gets dismissed as important photographic evidence is thrown out forcing her key witness and victim to refuse to testify. Narey... Continue Reading →
Olen Steinhauer’s latest thriller The Middleman is an excellent look into the world of domestic terrorism. Special Agent Rachel Proulx, an expert in left-wing fringe groups, is the lead in the investigation of the overnight disappearance of hundreds of followers of revolutionary leader Martin Bishop. Family members worry and the media speculates what Bishop’s group... Continue Reading →
Ten pages into Steven Brust’s Good Guys, I was worried. Worried that I had met this premise before. I was right, but at the same time, I was wrong. Brust’s novel starts with the familiar: a detective investigating a murder aided by magic. From Butcher to Carriger to many in between, we are familiar with... Continue Reading →
The Grey Bastards by Jonathan French is a raucous epic fantasy set in a world populated by orcs, humans, centaurs, wizards, and more. The story centers around The Grey Bastards band of half-orcs who with other half-orc gangs patrol the southern border to protect humans from full-blooded orcs. The well-written main character Jackal is the... Continue Reading →
Adrienne Celt's Invitation to a Bonfire tells the story of Zoya Andropova's travels from the Soviet Union as a young girl to an all-girls private school on the East Coast of the United States during the 1920s. She struggles through the last years of her schooling trying to learn English and make friends. The novel... Continue Reading →
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