Book Review: Carl T. Smith’s Lowcountry Boil
Unjustly sent to prison, Sam Larkin is mysteriously released, beginning a new life. One that’s shattered when undercover federal agent Karen Chaney comes to town as part of a drug sting operation.
Genre: suspense
Book Review: Janet Evanovich’s Wicked Business
Lizzy Tucker, the cupcake-baker-turned-finder-of-lost-things, has partnered up, reluctantly, with Diesel in a race against his evil cousin, Wulf, to find the treasure.
Book Review: Ken Bruen’s Calibre
The “Manners Killer” intends a long-overdue lesson on the importance of manners. But Brant is ornery enough that if anyone is getting away with murder on his patch, it’ll be him.
Book Review: Heather Gudenkauf’s These Things Hidden
A legacy of secrets is focused on one little boy. And if the truth is revealed, the consequences will be unimaginable for the adoptive mother who loves him, the girl who tried to protect him, and the two sisters who hold the key to all that is hidden.
Book Review: Ken Bruen’s Vixen
For the Southeast London police squad, it’s rough, tough, dirty business as usual. The Vixen, the most sensuous, crazed female serial killer ever, is masterminding a series of lethal explosions.
Book Review: Tami Hoag’s Deeper Than the Dead
A partially buried body discovered in the woods by four children will mark the end of innocence for an entire community, for the ties that bind families and friends are tested by secrets uncovered in the wake of a serial killer’s escalating activity.
Book Review: Mary Higgins Clark’s The Plot Thickens
Eleven suspenseful short stories involving thick that twist the ending from the expected and includes Mark HIggins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark, Janet Evanovich, Donald E. Westlake, Nelson and Lauren DeMille, Walter Mosley, Ann Rule, Edna Buchanan, Lawrence Block, Linda Fairstein, Nancy Pickard.
Book Review: James Lee Burke’s Lay Down My Sword and Shield
Pushed to pursue political office, Hack would prefer to drink, look after his horses, and represent the occasional pro bono case. Then he tries to help an old army buddy and is embroiled in the seamy underbelly of Texas politics.
Book Review: Ken Bruen’s Blitz
DS Brant is in hot water. CI Roberts’ wife has died. WPC Falls is still trying to navigate her job as a black woman. And “The Blitz” killer is killing cops all over the city.
Book Review: Deborah LeBlanc’s Family Inheritance
Jessica LeJeune left Louisiana, but she brought some of those mysterious forces with her–and now she’s being called back to her Cajun roots to confront a destiny she could not escape and a curse she might not survive.