The great outdoors, strong women, dogs If you like outdoorsy adventure mysteries or thrillers with a psychological edge, then check out Diane Les Becquets’ new book, The Last Woman in the Forest. It’s the story a young woman who loves… Read More ›
Criminal Element
Review: Wild Bill by Tom Clavin
I’m excited to share the review I wrote for Criminal Element of Tom Clavin’s new biography, Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier’s First Gunfighter.
Review: The Lost Man by Jane Harper
My first read for the Australian Women Writers Challenge is The Lost Man by Jane Harper. It just came out here in the U.S. on February 5, 2019 from Flatiron Books. To say I was looking forward to this novel… Read More ›
Review: Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller
Published in the U.S. by Tin House Books on October 9, 2018. Bitter Orange, Claire Fuller’s third novel, is a literary mystery that fans of Sarah Waters, Daphne Du Maurier, and Shirley Jackson won’t want to miss. Fuller’s first novel, Our Endless Numbered Days, won the 2015… Read More ›
Review: Bimini Twist by Linda Greenlaw
Linda Greenlaw’s forth Jane Bunker mystery hits bookstore shelves on Tuesday, June 26, 2018. I’ve been intrigued by Greenlaw since reading about her in Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm (1997) and have read several of her nonfiction books, beginning with… Read More ›
Review: Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo
“Time flies” and “So many books, so little time” are two clichés that banged up against my reading life when I was offered the opportunity to read and review Linda Castillo’s first Kate Burkholder novel, Sworn to Silence. In 2009, when Sworn to Silence came… Read More ›
Review: District VIII by Adam Lebor
District VIII is the first in a new mystery series by Adam Lebor featuring Detective Balthazar Kovacs, a man caught between his Gypsy heritage and his crime family on the one hand, and his law enforcement career and American ex-wife… Read More ›