Michael Connelly’s most recent book, Nightshade, which came out just this May, is one of those £0.99 deals in the UK today. I got to hear him talk about a week before this came out, at a UCLA business school event. He was a really good speaker, and it was fascinating listening to how he […]
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Another wonderful trip through the melting pot of old Bombay. I was lucky enough to have a review copy of Nev March’s first Jim Agnihotri/Diana Framji story, Murder in Old Bombay, back before it was even clear – to me, at least – whether this would be a series. And I loved that book, but
A review of The Silversmith’s Puzzle by Nev March – recently pubished Read More »
An enjoyable sequel, even if written seven decades later… A week or so ago, I had a fun time reading a new e-reprint of an old classic: David Dodge’s To Catch a Thief, which was the basis for the 1955 Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name. I haven’t seen the movie, but enjoyed the
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A worthy and wonderful sequel… A few months ago, I was lucky enough to read the first book in Robert Jackson Bennett’s Shadow of the Leviathan series, The Tainted Cup. And I fell in love with it. Which was both awesome and slightly scary: awesome, of course, because I got to read a great book;
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The highly entertaining romp continues… At the end of the first book in Beth Revis’ Chaotic Orbits series, Full Speed to a Crash Landing, we find out that protagonist Ada Lamarr is a galaxy-level expert in misdirection and dissimulation. And Ada’s somewhat illicit skills continue to get a mad – and highly entertaining – workout
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It’s nice to have a chance to catch up with John Dee again… Having read and really liked the first book in Oliver Clements’ Agents of the Crown series, The Eyes of the Queen, I was happy to receive a review copy of the latest book in the series, The Queen’s Lies, which just recently
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Worth the read, but room for improvement… Off the Air caught my attention as a Tony Hillerman prize-winner, and the blurb sounded interesting too, so I was happy to receive a review copy. For me, however, Off the Air didn’t fully live up to its promise. First, the good. I enjoyed the mystery itself, which
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Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, I enjoyed April Henry’s short 4-book Claire Montrose series. Claire is a DMV clerk in Oregon whose job is to vet vanity license plates, to make sure nothing too rude or nasty is allowed to slip through onto someone’s car. I remember these as kind of classic
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Another Alex Delaware/Milo Sturgis book that’s a real treat… I came late to Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware books, based on a bad assumption on my part: that books featuring a psychologist as a protagonist would necessarily be psychological thrillers, which I’m generally not fond of. However, a few years ago, I was lucky enough to
A review of The Ghost Orchid by Jonathan Kellerman – recently published Read More »
A fun airplane or beach book… I tend to think of Jeri Westerson as an author of historical mysteries set in medieval England, since I’ve read and enjoyed many books in her Crispin Guest and Will Somers series. But I’m aware that she writes in other genres too, and was interested to learn that she
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