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Review of Robin Yocum’s A Welcome Murder

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From the Publisher: After his unspectacular professional baseball career ends with a knee injury in Toledo, Ohio, Johnny Earl gets busted for selling cocaine. After serving seven years in prison, all he wants to do is return to his hometown of Steubenville, retrieve the drug money he stashed before he went to jail, and start […]

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Review of Robert B. Parker’s Little White Lies by Ace Atkins

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From the publisher Boston PI Spenser and right hand Hawk follow a con man’s trail of smoke and mirrors in the latest entry of the iconic crime series. After conning everyone from the cable news shows to the local cops, it looks like the grifter’s latest double cross may be his last. My review of […]

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What you Break by Reed Farrel Coleman is a slam-dunk read

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From the publisher Former Suffolk County cop Gus Murphy returns to prowl the meaner streets of Long Island’s darkest precincts with a Russian mercenary at his back in the stunning second installment of Reed Farrel Coleman’s critically acclaimed series. Gus Murphy and his girlfriend, Magdalena, are put in harm’s way when Gus is caught up […]

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Review of The Lost Order by Steve Berry

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From the publisher: The Knights of the Golden Circle was the largest and most dangerous clandestine organization in American history. It amassed billions in stolen gold and silver, all buried in hidden caches across the United States. Since 1865 treasure hunters have searched, but little of that immense wealth has ever been found. Now, one […]

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Review of Old Bones by Trudy Nan Boyce

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From the publisher: A timely and penetrating mystery about the intersection of policing, racism, and the community—set in a city at its boiling point—from an author who’s been in the trenches and seen it all. A senseless act of violence. During a vigil calling for police reform, students from Spelman College, a historically black women’s […]

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Review of Where I Can See You by Larry D. Sweazy

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From the publisher of Where I Can See You Haunted by the disappearance of his mother when he was eight years old, detective Hud Matthews begins his own investigation to find out what really happened so many years before. When a rare murder occurs in the lakeside community, Hud’s veteran skills are called upon to […]

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Review of Custom Baked Murder by Liz Mugavero

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From the publisher of Custom Baked Murder Kristan “Stan” Connor gladly turned tail on her high-flying job and moved to a quaint New England town to sell organic pet treats. But with her nose for solving murders, there’s no such thing as a quiet life… Summer is winding down in Frog Ledge, Connecticut, but Stan’s […]

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Review of An Unsettling Crime for Samuel Craddock

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From the publisher of An Unsettling Crime for Samuel Craddock When the Jarrett Creek Fire Department is called to douse a blaze on the outskirts of town, they discover a grisly scene: five black young people have been murdered. Newly elected Chief of Police Samuel Craddock, just back from a stint in the Air Force, finds […]

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Book review of Egg Drop Dead by Laura Childs

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From the publisher In Laura Childs’s New York Times bestselling mystery series, Suzanne, Petra, and Toni—co-owners of the Cackleberry Club café—are back to track down another bad egg… Maintaining good personal relationships with their suppliers is one of the secrets of the Cackleberry Club café’s success, so Suzanne doesn’t mind going out to Mike Mullen’s […]

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Review of The Queen’s Accomplice by Susan Elia MacNeal

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From the publisher Spy and code-breaker extraordinaire Maggie Hope returns to war-weary London, where she is thrust into the dangerous hunt for a monster, as the New York Times bestselling mystery series for fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Charles Todd, and Anne Perry continues. England, 1942. The Nazis’ relentless Blitz may have paused, but London’s nightly […]

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