Deck the Hounds, the 18th Andy Carpenter mystery, features the titular criminal defense lawyer, his faithful golden retriever, and author David Rosenfelt’s trademark humor. I honestly can’t even begin to tell you how much I enjoy David Rosenfelt’s Andy Carpenter novels. Reading each new book is like enjoying a delicious hot… Read more
Mark Stevens’ fifth entry in the Allison Coil mystery series, The Melancholy Howl, skillfully braids interweaving threads of mystery as Allison and her friends test the definition of family and the dangerous boundaries of trust. Allison Coil is a hunting outfitter in the Flat Tops Wilderness area of Colorado, having traded in… Read more
The fourth installment of the Cajun Country Mystery series finds the small Louisiana town of Pelican recovering from floods that washed away far too many of their residents’ worldly goods. While some are forced to relocate – hopefully temporarily – the Crozat family has been fortunate in having ancestors who… Read more
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
