Kingdom Books, Mysteries - Reviews

The third novel in Canadian fantasy author Kelley Armstrong 's Cainsville Series came my way this month, and it's a fast-paced thr...

Maine author Lea Wait is on a roll with the second in her new "Mainely Needlepoint Mystery" series, featuring Angela Curtis -- ...

Sometimes I peek at the "statistics" for the Kingdom Books review blog. Thought you might enjoy seeing a recent batch of them, t...

It's a Brave New World in book publishing, and here's one more item of proof: HarperCollins is reversing the "accepted" ...

Somehow it's always a glorious summer day -- we cross the border into Canada and the magic of the "pre-release" launch of Loui...

A story within a story -- a no-holds-barred dark police procedural with brutal crimes and a very twisted criminal, and at the same time a ...

If only this were the "old days," when the death of Sherlock Holmes could be reversed by reader pressure ... If only DRAGON DAYS...

"Paris had a way of making even gray beautiful." That's Marion Spicer's observation, as she steps out of a mansion after...

Living in northern New England, I look to the voices of established Western writers to test the premises of new crime fiction from, say, C...

Some books don't belong in the summer reading pile. THE RAVENS, the satisfying concluding volume of Norwegian crime fiction author Vid...

The road to crime fiction publication can be a slow one. Ruth Dugdall's deep-driving thriller THE WOMAN BEFORE ME won the Debut Dagger...

The fourth in the Hattie Davish mystery series, A DECEPTIVE HOMECOMING, is scheduled for release July 28 -- just in time to slip it into t...

AFTER THE STORM is the seventh investigation featuring Kate Burkholder, chief of police in the part-Amish community of Painters Mill. Lind...

Summer has settled around us, warm and humid, with lush gardens and the hum of lawnmowers, sometimes a tractor. The pond on the ridge is q...

Humorous mysteries come in wildly diverse shapes. There are the capers that Donald Westlake gave us, burglars and other petty criminals da...

Sure, I was skeptical at the start -- this is the fifth Athenian mystery set by Australian Gary Corby in "Classical Athens" and...

On the cover of the new paperback mystery from Lucy Burdette, number six in her Key West Food Critic series, are many of the enticing elem...

In the various series of British police investigation novels spinning now, a generous proportion draw their appeal from the team aspect: a...

The second tag sale/yard sale mystery from Sherry Harris just came out, and it's a terrific summer read! THE LONGEST YARD SALE follows...

US cover How have I missed out on Robert Goddard's British thrillers until now? His website proclaims him "master of the cleve...