BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Elizabeth Haynes 03/31/2015 Harper Collins BEHIND CLOSED DOORS by Elizabeth Haynes brings back the Major Crime detective team headed by DCI Louisa Smith. As in all of Haynes’ books, she explores hard-hitting themes where the main character tries to...
Empire Rising Rick Campbell St. Martin’s Press Feb. 24, 2015 Empire Rising by Rick Campbell is a riveting military thriller. He uses his personal experience as a retired Navy Commander to write an authentic story regarding submarine warfare. This novel is written in...
Midnight Ink February 2015 Mira James has had an unbelievable year. She moved from the big city of Minneapolis to small town Battle Lake in outstate Minnesota last May. Since then she has discovered dead bodies every month. Every. Month. Jess Lourey’s latest Murder...
WINTERSWIM Ryan W. Bradley 2014 Civil Coping Mechanisms The best noir is the kind that gets under your skin and makes you feel profoundly uncomfortable. Author Ryan W. Bradley does exactly that in Winterswim, and he pulls it off with a unique narrative set in Alaska...
The Stolen Ones Owen Laukkanen G.P. Putnam March 17, 2015 The Stolen Ones by Owen Laukkanen is an insightful look at morality and greed. As a police procedural it combines an action packed plot with societal issues that do not get a lot of attention. Human trafficking...
Cold Betrayal J. A. Jance Touchstone Publishers March 10, 2015 Cold Betrayal by J. A. Jance brings into focus two riveting sub-plots. What the stories have in common is the interplay of the family dynamics. As with all of Jance’s novels she explores some kind of...
