mystery fiction

Book Review: Hawthorn Woods by Patrick Canning

 Hawthorn Woods Patrick Canning File Size: 2019 KB Print Length: 283 pages Publication Date: August 4, 2020 Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC Language: English ASIN: B08CS2RK9S  BOOK BLURB:  Summer, 1989. Reeling from a catastrophic divorce she just can’t seem to leave behind, Francine Haddix flees San Francisco for a two-week stay at her sister’s house …

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Book Review – Death Never Sleeps by David Grace

Death Never SleepsDavid GraceFile Size: 609 KBPrint Length: 312 pagesPublisher: Wildside Press (June 20, 2013)Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.Language: EnglishASIN: B00DJ7JH6O This book opens with a real shocking scene when Homicide Detective James “Big Jim” Donegan and his partner, Chris Hunter, are called to a park where a body was found in a wood …

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Book Review: Kind of Blue by Miles Corwin

 Thanks to Carl Brookins for sharing another review with us… Kind of Blueby Miles CorwinISBN: 978-1-60809-007-5From Oceanview Publishing323 pages, November, 2010 A few years ago, this author wrote a couple of serious non-fiction books about the Los Angeles Police Department.  He spent a lot of time with cops in that city and wrote books that …

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Book Review: The Cruel Ever After by Ellen Hart

Thank you, Carl, for sharing yet another book review with us….. The Cruel Ever Afterby Ellen HartA Minotar (St. Martin’s Press)2010 release. Hard cover, 320 pgs.ISBN: 9780312624768 This, Hart’s nineteenth Jane Lawless mystery, is probably the darkest and most shocking of the series. The book is full of painful, difficult relationships and actions. The extensive …

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Book Review: Death Pans Out by Ashna Graves

Thanks again to Carl Brookins for sharing  his book reviews. Death Pans Outby Ashna GravesHardcover, 288 pages,from Poisoned Pen Press Reporter Jeneva Leopold, faced with a life-altering decision, takes a leave of absence from her job to recover from surgery.  Breast cancer has claimed part of her body and she wants time to recover in …

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Book Review: Bird Lives! by Bill Moody

Since I missed my usual Sunday review yesterday, I thought I would post one today.  Again, thanks to Carl Brookins for sending the reviews. Bird Lives!Author, Bill MoodyPublisher: WalkerISBN: 0-8027-3327-1pub. date: 1999248 pages, hardcover Another fine novel in the Evan Horn series.  A smoothly written psychological thriller.  it’s tight, fast-paced, and should greatly please fans …

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Book Review – The Bone Chamber by Robin Burcell

Thanks to Carl Brookins for sharing another review….. The Bone ChamberBy Robin BurcellISBN 9781590583753HC from Poisoned Pen Press2009, 378 pages Feisty independent-minded FBI forensic artist Sydney Fitzpatrick is off on another case. This time she bouncing between Washington, DC, San Francisco and various Italian locations, and all the while she and her cohorts dodge international …

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