THE BODY IN THE BIRCHES Katherine Hall Page William Morrow May 12, 2015 THE BODY IN THE BIRCHES by Katherine Hall Page fits perfectly into the genre of culinary mysteries. The plot puts a lot more emphasis on the family dynamics than the mystery. This makes for a...
Damn you Brad Meltzer. I picked up THE PRESIDENT’S SHADOW (Grand Central) to read for an hour or so before bed. Well, that was a mistake, though my mine not Mr. Meltzer’s. I ended up getting out of bed, making coffee and reading the book in basically one sitting. Full...
GBH Ted Lewis 2015 SoHo Press Best known for Jack Carter, the titular gangster of GET CARTER, the classic that propelled British crime fiction into a dark new direction, Ted Lewis’ subsequent body of work never gained the wider recognition that it rightly deserved....
INNOCENCE, OR, MURDER ON STEEP STREET Heda Margolius Kovaly June 2015 Soho Crime Prague in the 1950’s is a city steeped in distrust, politics and the knowledge that your friends and neighbors might sell you out to the government at any given time. Looking over your...
THE BREAKING POINT Jefferson Bass June 9th, 2015 William Morrow THE BREAKING POINT by Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson, known professionally as Jefferson Bass, realistically uses forensics to solve crimes. Jefferson is a writer and documentary filmmaker while Dr. Bass...
Juliet Blackwell’s seventh Witchcraft Mystery, Spellcasting in Silk, finds vintage-clothing-store owner and “unofficial witchy consultant” Lily Ivory assisting the San Francisco Police Department in yet another investigation—this one involving “a curandera shop gone haywire, a suspicious suicide, and a missing kid.”
