The Unbidden Truth is a serviceable legal thriller, but a serious lack of any real thrills keeps it from being anything more than an average read. Attorney Barbara Holloway receives an unusual request from a client who demands complete confidentiality. Louise Braniff says that she is part of a group of wealthy women who make…
I’m not wealthy enough to buy hardcover books just for fun. By the time I had my name on the list at the library for Ten Big Ones, I was 47th in line. But I was much higher on the list for the audio book, and so this review is based on listening to it…
In Hard Landing and Tarmac Lynne Heitman revealed the fascinating, behind-the-scenes life of an airport. Her protagonist Alex Shanahan, like the author, was an airline operations manager. As she did her job (and solved a mystery or two) the reader got to learn intriguing and sometimes scary details about life in an airport. Alex returns…
I’m a Joe Morelli fan. Ranger’s hot, but he’s definitely no long-term bet for Stephanie Plum, New Jersey’s most inept, but luckiest bounty hunter. I state my bias on the love triangle right up front, so fellow fans of the Plum series – of which To the Nines is the ninth book know where…
You might say Callaway Wilde is having a bad week. First, after a business meeting she’s approached by people who seem to be muggers, and Callie is forced to kill one in self-defense. The next day the victim’s brother shows up dead in her house, in an apparent attempt to frame Callie for murder. If…
One of my fellow reviewers recently wrote in a review of J.D. Robb’s Imitation in Death that the secret to a good continuing series is a strong main character surrounded by an equally strong supporting cast. This certainly holds true in A Killing Gift, the latest installment in Leslie Glass’s police procedural/mystery series featuring Detective…
This is my own observation from my part-time Waldenbooks job: men will not read cozy mysteries. Men like hard-boiled mysteries and they don’t mind the sex of the author. They read Sue Grafton and Patricia Cornwell as well as Robert Parker and Ed McBain. Women like hard-boiled mysteries too, but they also enjoy cozy mysteries…
Clear and Convincing Proof is a gripping, psychological mystery. At times claustrophobic and creepy, at others a neat, puzzling mystery. Murder has been done and there are plenty of possible suspects and a storyline with all the clues in place. So why then is this only a middling grade? It’s the people. Though each character…
To Have vs. To Hold is one of the very best mysteries I’ve ever read in a romance novel. That may sound like faint praise as many romance authors try to write mysteries that often fail. But this book is a puzzle so clever and inventive it would hold up in any genre. It’s what…
It’s hard to tell exactly where Kasey Michaels is having more fun in this second entry in her Maggie series: Shining a spotlight on just how annoying a a suddenly-come-to-life Regency hero might be or skewering the world of romance writing, publishing, and – dare I say it? – online romance reviewing. Either way, Maggie…
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