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D.C. Detective Navigates Two Worlds in “The Reflecting Pool”

Is there room for yet-another thriller series centered around a cynical, witty homicide detective who skirts the law and has a mysterious past? If the detective is Marko Zorn in Otho Eskin’s The Reflecting Pool (Oceanview), the answer is that you might want to make space on your bookshelf. In…

Dennis HetzelJune 23, 2020

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In “Long Bright River,” Two Sisters Take Distinctly Different Paths

The narrator of Long Bright River (Penguin) is Mickey Fitzpatrick, a young but already veteran street cop in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, and the call is a familiar one for her. Philadelphia is in the middle of an opioid crisis: “Sometimes their family finds them first. Sometimes their children.…

Neil NyrenDecember 30, 2019

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“A Curious Beginning” for Lepidopterist and Taxidermist Pair

In A Curious Beginning (Berkley), we’re introduced to Veronica Speedwell, lepidopterist, world traveler and dedicated hedonist. She has plans for an adventure on her own, but she keeps getting spirited away by mysterious men whose job, they say, is to keep her safe. But safe from what? Or whom? Veronica…

Sherri DaleyJanuary 30, 2020

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“Wife After Wife” Proves History Repeats Itself

As I read Olivia Hayfield’s debut novel, Wife After Wife (Berkley), about a serial philanderer, I kept yelling, “Off with his … head.” As you read it, the story will seem predictable if you’re familiar with the history and legend of King Henry VIII. Even though you may think you’ve…

Valerie Taylor, author of "What’s Not Said" and "What’s Not True"February 6, 2020

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In “All the Broken People,” a Small Town Hides Big Secrets

All the Broken People (Compathy Press), a debut psychological suspense novel, could not be summed up any better. Author Amy Rivers tells the story of Alice Bennett who, despite her troubled past, now lives a life of idyllic happiness. So it seems. Her husband Will is a successful lawyer. She…

Missi GwartneySeptember 11, 2019

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Michael Okon Scares Again in “Monsterland Reanimated”

Not quite. That’s because Michael Okon has a lot of cleaning up to do since the end of his weird and wacky Monsterland. The sequel, Monsterland Reanimated (Wordfire Press), is aptly named. Many creatures and villains you so lovingly met in book one have been restored to life and given…

Jim AlkonOctober 31, 2019

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“The Hierophant Card:” Tarot Reader Plays the Hand She Is Dealt

Truth to tell — I was about to embark on my first cozy mystery. You know, that subgenre of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated lightly, and the crime occurs in a small, intimate community. The detectives are almost always amateurs and are frequently women.…

Jim AlkonMay 19, 2020

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Carla Neggers’ Latest Steals Art and Hearts of Readers

Right away, author Carla Neggers hurries about introducing you to the characters in her book – by paragraph four, you’ve met five – and you begin to feel like you’ve arrived late to a party. If you’re new to the Sharpe & Donovan series as I was, you have. The…

Sherri DaleyAugust 27, 2019

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Unraveling the Past in “Her Secret Son”

Initially, it seems innocuous enough in Hannah Mary McKinnon’s domestic suspense novel Her Secret Son (MIRA). Yet as the plot of this unpredictable thriller unfolds, one looks back for any clue that might provide answers. Josh, a thirty-five-year-old landscaper with a history of bad luck, has found the love of…

Gisèle LewisAugust 19, 2019

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In The Wives, ‘Honey, I’m Home’ Takes on New Meaning

In her new psychological thriller The Wives (Graydon House), author Tarryn Fisher names the main character Thursday, who in turn nicknames her husband’s other wives Monday and Tuesday. Reason being: her husband, Seth, spends each Thursday with her in Seattle, and the beginning of each week with his other two…

Valerie Taylor, author of "What’s Not Said" and "What’s Not True"November 6, 2019

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Exacting Revenge in the City of Love

In Mike Bond’s latest thriller Goodbye Paris (Big City Press), that’s how Special Forces veteran Pono Hawkins remembers what happened eight years ago in Mosul, when he and his buddy Mack were grabbed by Mustafa al-Boudienne and Mustafa’s terrorist crew. Pono and Mack escaped. And now Mustafa is thought to…

Jim ParryJune 25, 2019

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A Timely Thriller from the Masterful Cristina Alger

In Cristina Alger’s Girls Like Us (G.P. Putnam’s Sons), FBI agent Nell Flynn returns to her hometown in Long Island, NY, to settle the estate of her homicide detective father. They were estranged, and she hasn’t been home in ten years. Soon Nell is aiding in an investigation of a…

Ann LinebergerJuly 2, 2019

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Dial M for a Midnight Murder

Everyone dreads that terrifying call that comes in the middle of the night. Your worst fears might be realized, your life changed forever in the minute it takes to answer. Jessie Martin never expected to hear the word murder on the other end of the line. That ringing phone was…

K.L. RomoJune 18, 2019

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A Druggie, a Dominatrix and a Tower of Songs

Who doesn’t love an irreverent badass who admits he’s a screw-up? Duck Darley is the most damaged anti-hero you’d never want to meet in a dark corner of New York City. In Casey Barrett’s The Tower of Songs: A Duck Darley Novel (Kensington) East meets West when a Chinese power…

K.L. RomoAugust 20, 2019

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A.F. Brady’s “Could Be” Killer

Compelling readers to turn the pages in a novel with a hateful anti-hero and few sympathetic characters is tricky, but A.F. Brady succeeds and captivates in the complex, intricately plotted and propulsive psychological thriller Once A Liar (Park Row Books). A.F. Brady, the pseudonym of a Manhattan psychotherapist, is also…

Ann LinebergerApril 9, 2019

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Mystery-Solving Couple Sets 1930s Chicago on Fire

In A Veil Removed (She Writes Press), the fourth book in Michelle Cox’s Henrietta and Inspector Howard series, the untimely death of Clive’s father and the abrupt end to Henrietta’s sister's unseemly romance drag the just-married couple into the underside of 1930s Chicago. Established family business ties reveal their nefarious…

Anne Eliot FeldmanMay 1, 2019

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D.C. Detective Navigates Two Worlds in “The Reflecting Pool”

In “Long Bright River,” Two Sisters Take Distinctly Different Paths

“A Curious Beginning” for Lepidopterist and Taxidermist Pair

“Wife After Wife” Proves History Repeats Itself

In “All the Broken People,” a Small Town Hides Big Secrets

Michael Okon Scares Again in “Monsterland Reanimated”

“The Hierophant Card:” Tarot Reader Plays the Hand She Is Dealt

Carla Neggers’ Latest Steals Art and Hearts of Readers

Unraveling the Past in “Her Secret Son”

In The Wives, ‘Honey, I’m Home’ Takes on New Meaning

Exacting Revenge in the City of Love

A Timely Thriller from the Masterful Cristina Alger

Dial M for a Midnight Murder

A Druggie, a Dominatrix and a Tower of Songs

A.F. Brady’s “Could Be” Killer

Mystery-Solving Couple Sets 1930s Chicago on Fire

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