Books of the Week: Don’t Ever Get Old, Daniel Friedman The Shake, Mel Nicolai The Magistrates of Hell, Barbara Hambly Criminal Enterprise, Owen Laukkanen I had the pleasure of meeting Daniel Friedman at the Edgar awards ceremony; Daniel was up for Best First Mystery....
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May 19, 2013
Books of the Week: The City, Stella Gemmell Kitty Rocks the House, Carrie Vaughn Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, David Sedaris I don’t believe I could have read three more diverse books if I’d picked them out of a hat. The City is a multiple POV science fiction...
May 8, 2013
Books of the Week: The Vampire Tapestry, Suzy McKee Charnas Under the Hill: Bomber’s Moon, Alex Beecroft Blood Oranges, Kathleen Tierney The Last Policeman, Ben Winters Suzy McKee Charnas wrote The Vampire Tapestry in 1980, and I’m sorry to say I read it for the first...
April 8, 2013
Books of the Week: Gun Machine, Warren Ellis Twice Tempted, Jeaniene Frost Six Years, Harlan Coben Lover at Last, J.R. Ward No Hero, Jonathan Wood Long airplane trips are a perfect opportunity for me to get some reading done, and on the way to and from Los Angeles I...
March 23, 2013
Books of the Week: Suspect, Robert Crais Warlord of Willow Ridge, Gary Phillips Midnight Blue-Light Special, Seanan McGuire Robert Crais is undoubtedly one of the major crime writers of the past decade, or longer, and I open a book of his with anticipation and...
March 10, 2013
Books of the Week: Seven Kinds of Hell, Dana Cameron Summon the Keeper, Tanya Huff Slashback, Rob Thurman It's strictly a coincidence that all three books begin with the letter "S" this time, and that they're all by woman I know and respect. Before this begins to feel...
February 21, 2013
Books of the Week: Undead and Underwater, MaryJanice Davidson City of Dark Magic, Magnus Flyte Hit Me, Lawrence Block And When She was Good, Laura Lippman What a wonderful lot of books I had to read this time. Sadly, there were a couple I just couldn't make progress...
January 10, 2013
Books of the Week: Live by Night, Dennis Lehane Bitten, Kelley Armstrong I think I’ve misplaced a book or two I read between the last blog and this one, because that seems awful scant, for me. Dennis Lehane is one of the major American crime writers of the past...
January 1, 2013
Books of the Week: Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn The Trouble With Fate, Leigh Evans The Dirty Streets of Heaven, Tad Williams You know how you can get your back up about books that just sell and sell and sell? How you kind of build up a negative attitude about them?...
December 13, 2012
Books of the Week: Cold Days, Jim Butcher Cursed, Benedict Jacka Taken, Alma Katsu Trapped, Kevin Hearne The Fame Thief, Timothy Hallinan I’m not going to do extensive reviews of three writers I’ve reviewed many times before. You know I love ‘em, and you know I’d read...