Crime Novel The Black Ice

The Black Ice, by Michael Connelly:   No one takes a case away from Hollywood homicide detective Harry Bosch, and the apparent suicide of DEA undercover […]

Comic Mystery Bad Monkey

  Bad Monkey, by Carl Hiaasen:   A severed arm reeled in from the waters off Key West offers former Deputy Sheriff Andrew Yancy a chance […]

YA Mystery Half Moon Investigations

Half Moon Investigations, by Eoin Colfer:   My name is Fletcher Moon, but people call me Half Moon. I may be short, but that doesn’t mean […]

Crime Novel No Regrets, Coyote

No Regrets, Coyote, by John Dufresne:   My name is Wylie Melville, so of course my cop cohort calls me Coyote in series crime novel NO […]

Mystery Aunty Lee’s Deadly Specials

Aunty Lee’s Deadly Specials, by Ovidia Yu:   Restaurateur Aunty Lee shifts into sleuth mode when her signature buah keluak dish is pronounced a killer […]

Literary Novel The Bingo Palace

The Bingo Palace, by Louise Erdrich: It’s all about luck. The luck of striving, of familial bonds, of natural and supernatural intervention. Thus literary novel THE […]

Mystery Above the Fold

Above the Fold, by Amber Adams:   During an early morn St. Augustine jog, I trip over the body of local college president Burnett Lansing, still […]