The Black Country by Alex Grecian Fiction — Mystery / Crime Fiction Putnam Adult; May 21, 2013 Paperback (ARC) 400 pages (Source: Publisher) From the book: The British Midlands. It’s called the “Black Country” for a reason. Bad things happen there. When members of a prominent family disappear from a coal-mining village–and a human eyeball […]

  Deadly Harvest: A Detective Kubu Mystery by Michael Stanley Fiction — Crime Fiction / Mystery Harper Paperbacks; April 30, 2013 Paperback 496 pages (Source: Publisher / TLC Book Tours) In Botswana, Africa, young girls are going missing after getting into cars with mysterious men. Detectives David “Kubu” Bengu and Samantha Khama have been charged […]

The Missing File by D.A. Mishani Fiction — Crime Fiction / Mystery Harper; March 19, 2013 Hardcover 304 pages (Source: Publisher / TLC Book Tours) From the back cover: Police detective Avraham Avraham knows that when a crime is committed in his quiet suburban Tel Aviv, there is little need for a complex investigation. There […]

No Mark Upon Her by Deborah Crombie Fiction — Mystery / Crime Fiction William Morrow; February 5, 2013 (reprint) Paperback 384 pages From the back cover: When a K9 search-and-rescue team discovers a woman’s body in the Thames, Scotland Yard superintendent Duncan Kincaid finds himself heading an investigation fraught with complications. The victim, the talented […]

Proof of Guilt: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery (#15) by Charles Todd Fiction — Mystery, Crime Fiction William Morrow; January 29, 2013 Hardcover 352 pages From the inside flap: London, summer 1920. An unidentified body appears to have been run down by a motorcar and Ian Rutledge is leading the investigation to uncover what happened. […]

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn Fiction — Suspense/Thriller Broadway, 2007 (reprint) Paperback 254 pages From Amazon: Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker’s troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille’s first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown […]

The Yard by Alex Grecian Fiction — Historical, Mystery Putnam; May 2012 Hardcover 432 pages From the back cover: “Victorian London is a cesspool of crime, and Scotland Yard has only twelve detectives–known as ‘The Murder Squad’–to investigate thousands of murders every month. Created after the Metropolitan Police’s spectacular failure to capture Jack the Ripper, […]

Yesterday, I reviewed Lyndsay Faye’s latest historical thriller, The Gods of Gotham: Set against the backdrop of New York City in 1845–at a time when the Great Potato Famine in Ireland was bringing thousands of new immigrants into the city–The Gods of Gotham is an historical thriller that weaves together an engaging murder mystery with […]

The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye Historical Fiction/Mystery Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam; March 15, 2012 Advance Review Copy (Paperback) 414 pages From the inside flap: It is 1845…Timothy Wilde tends bar near the Exchange, fantasizing about the day he will have enough money to win the girl of his dreams. But when his dreams incinerate […]