Book Reviews

April 2020

Spotlight on And Then We Vanish: collected stories by D.H. Schleicher

By Meredith Rankin|2020-03-20T15:37:13-05:00April 6th, 2020|Categories: Book excerpts/content, suspense|Tags: And Then We Vanish, D. H. Schleicher, indie novels, short story collections|

Welcome D. H. Schleicher to the blog today! Some of you may remember that I reviewed Schleicher’s novel Then Came Darkness last year. Great book, and I wasn’t the only one […]

Children of War by Ahmet Yorulmaz @NeemTreePress #RandomThingsTour

By Meredith Rankin|2020-03-16T10:42:34-05:00April 2nd, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews, historical, literary, Social Issues in fiction|Tags: Ahmet Yorulmaz, historical, literary fiction, Paula Darwish|

I’m thrilled to take part in the blog tour for Children of War by Ahmet Yorulmaz, a noted Turkish journalist. Thanks to Anne Cater and Neem Tree Press for a copy of the […]

#BlogTour #BookReview East Side Hustler by Leopold Borstinski #AlexCohenSeries #damppebbles

By Meredith Rankin|2020-03-19T13:46:22-05:00March 30th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews, historical mysteries, series|Tags: #damppebblesblogtours, crime fiction, East Side Hustler, historical, Leopold Borstinski, noir|

Today is my turn on the damppebbles blog tour for East Side Hustler by Leopold Borstinski. Thanks to Emma Weldon of damppebblesblogtours and the author for a copy of the novel in exchange for an […]

Spotlight on Why Me? Chimeras, Conundrums, and Dead Goldfish by Charlotte Stuart

By Meredith Rankin|2020-03-20T11:37:19-05:00March 27th, 2020|Categories: Book excerpts/content, cozy, Interviews/Guest Posts|Tags: Charlotte Stuart, cozy mystery, indie novels|

Some of you may remember my review of Charlotte Stuart’s quirky mystery Survival Can Be Deadly this past summer. Well, Stuart is back with a new novel. This one is titled […]

#BlogTour The Awful Truth about the Sushing Prize by Marco Ocram

By Meredith Rankin|2020-03-20T11:33:53-05:00March 24th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews, series, thriller|Tags: #damppebblesblogtours, #Thriller, Denis Haughnessy, Marco Ocram, satire, The Awful Truth about the Sushing Prize|

The Awful Truth about the Sushing Prize by Marco Ocram

Whatever he writes, he lives. But unless he can draft a happy ending, his next release will be murder…

Author Marco Ocram has a […]

With Her Fists by Henry Roi

By Meredith Rankin|2020-04-15T10:53:39-05:00March 16th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews, crime, thriller|

With Her Fists by Henry Roi

Genre: Crime Thriller

Publisher: Independently published

Publication Date: November 25, 2019

Clarice “Shocker” Ares retired from a […]

New Police Procedurals Spring 2020

By Meredith Rankin|2020-03-11T11:43:57-05:00March 13th, 2020|Categories: New releases, police procedurals|Tags: Caro Ramsey, Jackie Baldwin, Kjell Ola Dahl, Lissa Marie Redmond, Lorraine Mace, Mark Pettinger, OMJ Ryan, police procedural, Simon McCleave, Simone Buchholz|

If you’re like me, you love a well-crafted police procedural mystery. The author has a unique job: they must construct both an investigation and the crime. Other subgenres in the mystery/suspense category do this, too, […]