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Doreen Sheridan

Doreen Sheridan is a freelance writer living in Washington, D.C. She microblogs on Twitter @dvaleris.
Fool Moon, Volume 2, by Jim Butcher

Fresh Meat: Fool Moon, Volume 2 by Jim Butcher

By Doreen Sheridan

April 12, 2013

Fool Moon, Volume 2, by Jim Butcher is a graphic novel adaptation of the second novel in the Harry Dresden series (available April 23, 2013). Jim Butcher is the author of a wildly popular paranormal crime series called The Dresden Files, which features Harry Dresden, wizard and private eye. As with other popular titles in…

Fresh Meat: Dirty Little Secret by Jon Stock

By Doreen Sheridan

March 25, 2013

Dirty Little Secret by Jon Stock is the third espionage thriller featuring renegade MI-6 agent Daniel Marchant (available March 26, 2013). Daniel Marchant has been through hell and high water while working to protect his country, Great Britain, from its foreign foes. As a spy in the service of MI-6, he has followed in his…

Fresh Meat: Rage Against The Dying by Becky Masterman

By Doreen Sheridan

March 10, 2013

Rage Against the Dying  by Becky Masterman is a debut thriller featuring a former FBI agent who has retired to Arizona, but hasn’t been able to leave her job behind (available March 12, 2013). Brigid Quinn is a tough-talking former FBI agent, forced into retirement after fatally shooting an unarmed perp. She’s haunted still by…

Fresh Meat: The Family Way by Rhys Bowen

By Doreen Sheridan

February 26, 2013

The Family Way by Rhys Bowen, the newest book in the Molly Murphy historical mystery series, puts Molly on the trail of a missing servant (available March 5, 2013). The 12th book in the award-winning Molly Murphy mystery series finds Molly happily married and heavily pregnant but also incredibly bored. It is the summer of…

Fresh Meat: Three Graves Full by Jamie Mason

By Doreen Sheridan

February 11, 2013

Three Graves Full by Jamie Mason is a thriller with a twist and a macabre sense of humor (available February 12, 2013). Three Graves Full is a crime novel that begins with a twist. Our protagonist, Jason Getty, spends the opening chapter getting over the fact that he’s killed a man and buried the corpse…

Fresh Meat: Bad Medicine Vol. 1: New Moon by Nunzio deFilippis & Christina Weir

By Doreen Sheridan

January 25, 2013

Bad Medicine Volume 1: New Moon by Nunzio deFilippis and Christina Weir is a paranormal police procedural/medical thriller graphic novel (available January 30, 2013). This graphic novel is split into two parts, following the exploits of a diverse inter-agency team as they investigate the involvement of biological agents in strange deaths reminiscent of classic monster…

Initiation Rites: Towards Zero by Agatha Christie

By Doreen Sheridan

December 6, 2012

I’ve always been an indiscriminate reader. Growing up, I wasn’t surrounded with a wealth of reading material so I read whatever I could lay my hands on. I never had the luxury of considering myself a genre reader or even the inclination: satisfying the urge to read, no matter what the material, was paramount. And…

Sacrifice Fly by Tim O’Mara

Fresh Meat: Sacrifice Fly by Tim O’Mara

By Doreen Sheridan

October 7, 2012

Sacrifice Fly by Tim O’Mara is a traditional mystery featuring a former New York City cop turned middle school teacher as he tries to find the killer of a student’s father (available October 16, 2012). I went into reading this novel expecting that, with a title like Sacrifice Fly, there would be a lot of…

Sailor Twain by Mark Siegel

Fresh Meat: Sailor Twain: Or, The Mermaid in the Hudson by Mark Siegel

By Doreen Sheridan

September 28, 2012

Sailor Twain: or, the Mermaid in the Hudson by Mark Siegel is a graphic novel from First Second Press that collects the installments originally published at SailorTwain.com (available October 2, 2012). Set in 1887 New York, it opens with a cloaked woman finally tracking down the title character to a waterfront dive. He doesn’t want…

Invisible Murder

Fresh Meat: Invisible Murder by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis

By Doreen Sheridan

September 24, 2012

Invisible Murder by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis is the second Nina Borg nordic mystery set in Denmark (available October 2, 2012). When I saw that this book had finally come on the market, I leapt at the chance to read it. I loved the first novel in the Nina Borg series, The Boy In…

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