Monday, May 25, 2015

FARMED AND DANGEROUS, Edith Maxwell: Third "Local Foods Mystery"

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Packing and stacking: that's the way to enter summer. Packing a beach bag with books you've waited for months to have time to open...

With Secrets and Revelation: DREAMING SPIES, Laurie R. King

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If you're a Laurie R. King fan -- and I am -- you probably had DREAMING SPIES on your list earlier this year, and purchased it soon a...
Monday, May 18, 2015

Forensic Archaeology and World War II Betrayal, in THE GHOST FIELDS, by Elly Griffiths (Ruth Galloway #7)

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US cover The long shadows of old crimes are familiar phenomena for Ruth Galloway, a forensic archaeologist whose home turf is Norfolk, E...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

New Setting, New Characters, but a Classic Bethany Maines Mystery! AN UNSEEN CURRENT (San Juan Islands)

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I've never held back on blunt truth about the mysteries that Bethany Maines framed in her multilayered "Carrie Mae" cosmeti...

Colin Cotterill's 10th Dr. Siri Paibun Mystery, SIX AND A HALF DEADLY SINS

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Ever notice how hard it can be to relax, as summer arrives? In theory, it's playtime, and vacation time, and let's-go-the-beach ti...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

Maine Crime Fiction from Gerry Boyle, ONCE BURNED

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In the 10th title in his Jack McMorrow series, ONCE BURNED, Gerry Boyle evokes primal terror: the sum of those consuming and compelling e...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

World War II Policing in Detroit: DETROIT IS OUR BEAT, Loren D. Estleman

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This is a hot time for World War I and  World War II mysteries set in Europe, especially England and France -- and Italy, come to think of...
Monday, April 27, 2015

Policing During World War II: THE LANGUAGE OF THE DEAD, Stephen Kelly

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Maryland author Stephen Kelly, swooping into a new career after some 30 years as a journalist, gives us a debut crime novel of intricacy ...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

Plot, Character, and a Taste of Maine: MUSSELED OUT, New from Barbara Ross

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With her third Maine Clambake Mystery, MUSSELED OUT, Barbara Ross serves up a triple whammy of tight and fast-moving plot (competition! ris...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Australian Crime Fiction: Cato Kwong Series, Alan Carter

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There are two significant anchors for Australian crime fiction, and they couldn't be more different: At one pole are the "Bony...
Saturday, April 18, 2015

Exhilarating Discovery: Finnish Crime Fiction Author Pekka Hiltunen

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The second book in an emotionally gripping crime fiction series by Pekka Hiltunen arrived in the US this winter: BLACK NOISE. I took my ti...
Monday, April 13, 2015

Psychological Suspense: THE DOLL'S HOUSE, Louise Phillips (Ireland)

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Louise Phillips is a best-selling author in Ireland; it may take a while, in the current flood of imported crime fiction, for American rea...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

Exciting Debut: PAST CRIMES, Glen Erik Hamilton

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Reading another author's Facebook musings last month, I noticed her enthusiasm about a debut mystery from Seattle native (and now Cali...

Jon Land, BLACK SCORPION: THE TYRANT REBORN (Thriller)

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I'm a loyal fan of Jon Land 's Caitlin Strong series, in which the descendant of a close-knit family of Texas Rangers shows the g...
Wednesday, April 01, 2015

Probe the Plot, Enjoy the Pets: THE ICING ON THE CORPSE, Liz Mugavero

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For the third time, I picked up a Liz Mugavero mystery, I chuckled at the entertaining cover (the protagonist has an organic pet food busine...

"The mother of poetry is ..." : Patrick Donnelly

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Launching the St. Johnsbury, Vermont, version of National Poetry Month today, Patrick Donnelly came from western Massachusetts to read from...

No Fooling: 35% Off Our ABE Listings, To April 28

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It's not quite lilac blossom time here, but we salute April as the month of spring anyway, with a major sale for all our books (th...
Monday, March 23, 2015

Romp Among the Comic Strips, 1953: Max Allan Collins, STRIP FOR MURDER

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Dover Publications just brought out a reprint in Mystery Classic form of a 2008 Max Allan Collins book, STRIP FOR MURDER -- and it's a...

Policing With "The Troubles": Adrian McKinty's 4th in Series, GUN STREET GIRL

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It's Belfast, Ireland, in 1985 -- and any de facto truce between the religious parties on hand is about to blow up. Meanwhile, Inspect...
Saturday, March 14, 2015

From Espionage to Literature (or Vice Versa): Olen Steinhauer, ALL THE OLD KNIVES

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Olen Steinhauer 's espionage books have made him one of my favorite writers, as his "Tourist" series forges a significant ex...