In the Bleak Midwinter
In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming Despite the fact we are back to school in Nashville, it is still much too hot for serious fiction. What is required during […]
I Will Find You
I Will Find You by Harlan Coben During a rare prison visit, David Burroughs’ sister tells him that she spotted Burroughs’ young son in a friend’s vacation photos. As Burroughs […]
Hunting Game
Hunting Game by Helene Tursten It’s moose hunting season in Sweden, and twenty-eight-year-old Embla Nyström, a Detective Inspector in the Västra Götaland County Bureau of Investigation’s mobile unit (VGM) is […]
Home by Nightfall
Home by Nightfall by Charles Finch With the impenetrable fog and stifling conventions, Victorian London is an irresistible setting for murder mysteries, and the Charles Lenox series by Charles Finch […]
Hell Gate
Hell Gate by Linda Fairstein Linda Fairstein’s latest crime novel featuring Alexander Cooper, head of the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit in Manhattan, is an easy read. Despite the murder and […]
Girl Waits With Gun
Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart Inspired by true events, Girl Waits With Gun is the first work of fiction from Amy Stewart, author of six nonfiction works including […]
Peter Robinson Mysteries
Friend of the Devil by Peter Robinson If you are unfamiliar with the series of mystery -suspense novels by Peter Robinson, you are in for a treat. There are over […]
Will Trent Mysteries
Karin Slaughter, Will Trent Mysteries Will Trent is a 6’ 3” GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigation) agent with extraordinary investigative skills and limited social skills, both of which can be […]
Emma Lathen
Emma Lathen Mystery Novels When allergies got the best of me earlier this month, I holed up for a few days with a dozen Emma Lathen mystery novels featuring amateur […]
The English Girl
The English Girl by Daniel Silva Daniel Silva’s latest, The English Girl, has more plot twists than a bag of Twizzlers. Madeline Hart, the girlfriend of the married Prime Minister […]
Dark Sacred Night
Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly Often a long running mystery series gets tired, but Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch novels are still fresh. In Dark Sacred Night, Detective Bosch, retired […]
Daddy’s Girl
Daddy’s Girl by Lisa Scottoline I consider myself an adventurous reader. I’ll read just about anything, and in desperate times have been known to finish books I didn’t even like. […]
Dead Land
Dead Land by Sara Paretsky After Chicago private investigator V.I. Warshawski and her goddaughter Bernie leave a raucous meeting of the South Lakefront Improvement Council (SLICK), they pass a homeless […]
Cahokia Jazz
Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford The 1922 map of North America in the front pages of the novel Cahokia Jazz looks familiar, but there is an extra state located on […]
Accused by Lisa Scottoline
Philadelphia lawyer Mary DiNunzio has a soft spot for the underdog much to the dismay of her colleagues in the all-female firm of Rosato & Associates. When Mary is hired […]