Book Review: Frances and Richard Lockridge’s A Pinch of Poison
At a swanky rooftop restaurant in New York, a pair of husband-and-wife sleuths must find out who spiked a woman’s drink with murder.
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Book Review: Jacqueline Winspear’s An Incomplete Revenge
Maisie Dobbs travels to Kent to investigate a series of fires, a family of Dutch bakers who were killed during WWI in a zeppelin attack and the theft of some silver.
Book Review: Lee Child’s “Deep Down”
Somehow plans for a new, state-of-the-art sniper rifle are leaking, and Reacher is summoned back to D.C. To go undercover and smoke out the mole.
Book Review: James Lee Burke’s Light of the World
Sadist and serial killer Asa Surrette has escaped prison and is after Alafair, Dave Robicheaux’s daughter. He’s not happy about a series of damning articles Alafair has written…
Book Review: J.R. Ward’s Lover at Last
Shunned and disavowed, Qhuinn has found his place if not his heart while Blay has moved on in the face of Qhuinn’s coming child.
Book Review: Steven Saylor’s The Venus Throw
On a chill January evening in 56 B.C., an Egyptian ambassador and a eunuch priest seek out Gordianus the Finder whose specialty is solving murders, but the ambassador, a philosopher named Dio, has come to ask for something Gordianus cannot give—help in staying alive. Before the night is out, he will be murdered.
Book Review: Nora Roberts’ Time and Again
From a century far in the future, Caleb Hornblower finds a timeless love in Liberty Stone. As does the brother who comes to rescue him.
Book Review: Laurell K. Hamilton’s The Laughing Corpse
Anita will learn that there are some secrets better left buried—and some people better off dead…when a voodoo priestess starts raising the dead.
Book Review: Suzanne Johnson’s Royal Street
When Hurricane Katrina hammers New Orleans, the borders between the modern city and the Otherworld crumbled. Now, the undead and the restless are roaming the Big Easy, and a serial killer with ties to voodoo is murdering the soldiers sent to help the city recover.
Book Review: Hanan al-Shaykh’s One Thousand and One Nights: A Retelling
Nineteen Scheherazade fairy tales without the Western twist.