Book Reviews: Honesty and all that jazz…

There’s been a lot of rabble-rousing on the internet the past week about fake reviews, paid reviews, sock-puppet shenanigans, and… Read more Book Reviews: Honesty and all that jazz…

Book Review: STRANGER IN THE ROOM by Amanda Kyle Williams

It used to be all the pulp and hardboiled P.I.s were hard-drinking white men who helped good-looking dames with their… Read more Book Review: STRANGER IN THE ROOM by Amanda Kyle Williams

David Gurney is a much celebrated, and reluctantly-retired, NYPD detective recovering from gunshot injuries he sustained during his last case.… Read more Book Review: LET THE DEVIL SLEEP by John Verdon

Since 9/11, thousands of military service people have died in our two Middle East wars. Hundreds-to-thousands more have killed themselves.… Read more Book Review: THE SURVIVOR by Gregg Hurwitz

I wasn’t sure about this one when I started it. It’s the third in a series so I was a… Read more Book Review: Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch

This book has received a lot of harsh reviews on Goodreads, and I’m glad I hadn’t read them and picked… Read more Book Review: Nameless Dame by Bart Schneider

The Line Between Here and Gone is sort of romantic suspense in that it seems a lot like a Lifetime… Read more Book Review: The Line Between Here and Gone by Andrea Kane

FINAL CROSSING is not a bad thriller. (Yeah, I know, that sounds like a tepid endorsement at best, but stick… Read more Book Review: Final Crossing by Carter Wilson

The books are peopled with Kimelman’s “losers,” those people at the bottom rung of the economic ladder, those people on… Read more Poor People: OUT OF THE WOODS (Chris Offutt) & EVA’S MAN (Gayl Jones)

Okay, even if you already read the hardcover, go back and get yourself the Kindle or Nook version of Yellow… Read more Review-type-thing: Yellow Medicine by Anthony Neil Smith (@DocNoir)