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Neliza Drew

Review: A Negro and an Ofay by Danny Gardner

By Neliza Drew

May 16, 2017

A Negro and an Ofay by Danny Gardner is the 1st book in The Tales of Elliot Caprice series.  On the surface, A Negro and an Ofay is a crime novel. Underneath, Danny Gardner’s book is about family—the one you have and the one you make. It’s about going home again and making amends. It’s about learning…

Review: Miscarriage of Justice by Elizabeth Amber Love

By Neliza Drew

May 1, 2017

Miscarriage of Justice by Elizabeth Amber Love is the 3rd book in the Farrah Wethers Mystery series.  The 3rd book in the Farrah Wethers series by Elizabeth Amber Love finds Farrah facing a divorce, the loss of her house, and the possible closure of the spa where she works as a freelance massage therapist. All…

Review: Dangerous Ends by Alex Segura

By Neliza Drew

April 15, 2017

Dangerous Ends by Alex Segura is the 3rd Pete Fernandez mystery—a fast-paced, hardboiled and surprising novel that pushes Pete Fernandez into a battle with a deadlier, more complex threat, as he tries to shake off the demons haunting Miami's own, sordid past. The 3rd installment in the Pete Fernandez books has arrived, and Dangerous Ends…

Review: Bad Boy Boogie by Thomas Pluck

By Neliza Drew

March 22, 2017

Bad Boy Boogie by Thomas Pluck is the 1st book in the new Jay Desmarteaux Crime Thriller series. Jay Desmarteaux walks out of prison after 25 years with a new set of rules learned from mentors inside, survival skills he’s adopted to stay alive, and every mechanics certification they offered. He’s also got some ideas about…

Review: The Abandoned Heart by Laura Benedict

By Neliza Drew

October 13, 2016

Three women. A cursed house. Generations of lives at stake. The Abandoned Heart by Laura Benedict—the 3rd novel in the acclaimed Bliss House series—reveals the secret that started it all. The Abandoned Heart by Laura Benedict is an impressively sprawling ghost story, weaving together the lives (and deaths) experienced by the women of Bliss House…

Review: South Village by Rob Hart

By Neliza Drew

October 10, 2016

South Village by Rob Hart is the 3rd book in the Ash McKenna series, where Ash finds himself wasting away on a Georgia commune before being pulled into an investigation of a seemingly peaceful community turned murderous (Available October 11, 2016). There’s this cliché—out there in the world beyond the borders of the crime fiction…

Fresh Meat: The Fraud by Brad Parks

By Neliza Drew

July 7, 2015

The Fraud by Brad Parks is the 6th mystery in the Carter Ross series about the Newark, New Jersey journalist (available July 7, 2015). The Fraud grabbed me from page one. I’d been reading another book before this one, a page or two at a time and falling asleep or getting distracted or picking up…

Fresh Meat: Shark Skin Suite by Tim Dorsey

By Neliza Drew

January 26, 2015

Shark Skin Suite by Tim Dorsey is the 18th humorous escapade of Florida serial killer Serge Storm, and this time, after binging on a collection of legal films, he's ready to try his own hand at  upholding the law (available January 27, 2015). Tim Dorsey’s back with his 18th Serge Storm’s book, Shark Skin Suite.…

Fresh Meat: Doing the Devil’s Work by Bill Loehfelm

By Neliza Drew

January 6, 2015

Doing the Devil's Work by Bill Loehfelm is the third book starring Maureen Coughlin, an up-and-coming New Orleans police officer trying to rebuild her life (available January 6, 2014). Doing the Devil's Work is the third book in the Maureen Coughlin series by Bill Loehfelm. In The Devil in Her Way, Coughlin was a probationary…

Fresh Meat: Gods and Monsters: Mythbreaker by Stephen Blackmoore

By Neliza Drew

December 1, 2014

Gods and Monsters: Mythbreaker by Stephen Blackmoore is a standalone thriller where a new set of gods square off against the old regime, with mankind left in the middle (available December 2, 2014). Mythbreaker by Stephen Blackmoore is the second book in the Gods and Monsters series (the first, Unclean Spirits was by Chuck Wendig),…

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