spy/thriller
Summary:
Jonathan Brooks is a lawyer down on his luck. Hurricane Katrina (and the subsequent looting) has devastated his legal practice and his only option for work is to represent […]
Another review from my Goodreads profile. New reviews coming soon. Two of the novels are being released next week!
Maisie Dobbs, private investigator and careful observer […]
(Note: I’m still wrestling with a migraine, so […]
Genre: police procedural
Summary:
When a woman requests his help with her teen son’s suspected drug abuse, Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti knows that there’s little he can do. What does she […]
What is it that fascinates us about amnesia? A quick Goodreads search yielded dozens of titles that involved amnesia somehow. (Romance novels, in particular, seemed to dominate the list.) If you like reading books where […]
“Tartan noir with a delicious twist,” as the press release calls it.
Summary: Good Cop Bad Cop opens with DI Brian Fisher interviewing a murder suspect. Alone. (Note: […]
historical suspense/thriller
Summary of Then Came Darkness: Summer 1936. Upstate New York. The country is in the middle of the Great Depression, and the Kydd family is suffering along with […]
Quote from Maya Angelou: “I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and love.”
Summary
India, 1920. Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant “Surrender-Not” Banerjee witness the murder of the heir of the throne of Sambalpore, a tiny but wealthy kingdom. The two police investigators […]
Island of the Mad, by Laurie R. King, historical mystery
An old friend of Mary Russell’s asks her to help find the friend’s missing aunt. Tragic losses left her always […]