The Old Deep and Dark by Ellen Hart is the 22nd mystery featuring P.I. Jane Lawless as she investigates a string of murders at an old theater (available October 7, 2014). I have a friend who hates seeing a Cast of Characters at the beginning of a novel. She feels it means either A) there…
This is an exclusive, specially-formatted excerpt from Strongwood: a Crime Dossier by Larry Millett, a novel in documentary form about the 1904 murder trial of Adelaide Strongwood, investigated by St. Paul’s sleuth and saloonkeeper Shadwell Rafferty with associate Sherlock Holmes (available March 15, 2014). The place is Minneapolis, the year is 1903, and Michael Masterson…
Delivering Death by Julie Kramer is the 6th mystery featuring Minneapolis investigative reporter Riley Spartz (available January 7, 2014). One of my favorite things about reading a new-to-me author is meeting new characters. It’s rare and, to use a cliché, magical, when a character draws me in immediately. When I started reading Delivering Death, I…
Here’s USA’s description of the movie Certain Prey, based upon John Sandford’s novel, to air two weeks from now: Lucas Davenport doesn’t need his job as Minneapolis’s Deputy Chief of Police; he could have retired long ago with the money he made designing computer simulations. But Davenport loves what he does just as much as…
