Book Review: Ben Aaronovitch’s Lies Sleeping
Faced with the destruction of London, Detective Constable (and apprentice wizard) Peter Grant must come to terms with his traitorous ex-best friend Leslie May and the malevolent killer Mr Punch.
Genre: police procedural
Book Review: Craig Johnson’s “Eleven/Twenty-Nine”
A brief look-in as Sheriff Walt Longmire defuses a volatile family dispute and enables a change for the better for this dynamic character.
Book Review: Christopher Fowler’s Ten Second Staircase
Celebrity murders and a masked and caped Highwayman lead Bryant and May a merry chase as they dodge the bureaucracy attempting to shut them down.
Book Review: J.D. Robb’s Devoted in Death
Eve Dallas tracks a couple whose passion is fueled by cold brutality in the New York City of 2061.
Book Review: Kathy Reichs’ Speaking in Bones
It’s a challenge Lucky Strike presents to Tempe. An audio file so disturbing it fires Tempe into pushing a cold case, bones found by Mort, a hunter’s dog.
Book Review: Frédérique Molay’s The City of Blood
A gruesome find during a major Parisian art event gets unexpected attention from Chief Nico Sirsky as he and his team chase the butcher of Paris.
Book Review: Frédérique Molay’s The 7th Woman
A macabre ritual has Chief Nico Sirsky racing against the clock before a vicious serial killer kills someone within Nico’s inner circle.
Book Review: Frances and Richard Lockridge’s The Norths Meet Murder
THE NORTHS MEET MURDER in the top-floor studio of the old house in which they live. Long left vacant, Mrs. North decides it is just the place for a party and takes her husband up to check it out when they find a murdered man in the bathtub! With no clue, Detective Weigand begins spinning his web and gathering into it the most amazing conglomeration of information. With the aid of Mrs. North’s “hunches” Weigand carries through to a brilliant, entertaining and fascinating conclusion.
Book Review: Ian Rankin’s Impossible Dead
An inquiry into a compromised police force leads to the long ago suicide of a prominent politician and activist. Secrets and reputations are on the line.