Harms’ Way by Thomas Rayfiel takes us into the world of a super-max detention facility, painting a dark depiction of prisoners and prison life where despite the presence of America’s most psychotic killers, we find ourselves comfortably at home. This lyrical, almost hallucinatory look inside the mind of a serial… Read more
In The Night Wood by Dale Bailey tells the tale of a grieving biographer who finds himself slipping inexorably into the supernatural world that consumed his subject. Charles Hayden left America to escape, or at least forget. After the devastating death of his five-year-old daughter, he hopes that settling into… Read more
Mycroft and Sherlock by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse is a clever pastiche in the world of Sherlock Holmes that expertly captures the tone of the originals while creating a world all their own. A few years ago, I suggested Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse’s Mycroft Holmes to my book… Read more
Alright, dear readers, we’re taking a jump to the left and a step to the right and traveling back in time with the most recent installment of one of my favorite culinary cozy series (God willing and the creek don’t rise, we’ll close out the books we’ve missed for this… Read more
The Damage Done by PJ Parrish is the 12th book in the Louis Kincaid Mystery series. Louis Kincaid has been offered the opportunity of a lifetime. Having left the Michigan State Police force under a cloud in the mid-1980s, he’s been doing alright as a private investigator down in Florida,… Read more
Our heroine Ivy Culpepper’s latest photography job is to document Santa Sofia’s annual art car parade and ball. Her older brother, Billy, has been a contender in the parade for nearly decades now, but his innovative creations have never yet won. Max Litman, a local real estate developer who’s even… Read more
Wow, okay, this novel was certainly a departure from the rest of the series so far. In the first third of the book, Hannah and her sisters are accompanying their mother in Vegas where Doc Knight plans to surprise Delores with a wedding—in large part to remove the burden her… Read more
I’m kind of sorry I started the Southern Chocolate Shop Mystery series with this third installment because it’s so awesome that I wish I’d jumped in from the start! Charity Penn—or Penn, as she’s better known—is the owner of The Chocolate Box, a specialty chocolate store located in the quiet… Read more
Lucy Berberian is finally easing into her role of restaurant manager after a somewhat contentious handover in the previous book in the Kebab Kitchen Mystery series. Her biggest challenges so far are persuading her stubborn father, Raffi, to let her overhaul their inventory management system and learning how to cook… Read more
When the Lights Go Out by Mary Kubica is a riveting and emotionally charged thriller where a woman is forced to question her own identity. Jessie Sloane was 15 when her beloved mother, Eden, was diagnosed with cancer. The two women had always lived in their own private world, relying… Read more
