Seren
by Peter Gooch, 2025 Seren is a mystery set in the art world of 1970s Detroit. Many mysteries, murder and otherwise, as it turns out. [This page contains affiliate links, meaning that if you make a purchase from a link on this page, I will earn a small commission at no additional cost to you.] […]
2024 Christmas Book Review Roundup
If you have a hard-to-buy-for book lover on your Christmas list, here is a vetted list of 34 books I’ve read this year that I can highly recommend! Those of you who follow this blog know that I write periodic book reviews during the year. Where does the time go? I couldn’t possibly write reviews […]
The Silence of the Dead
by Frank Zafiro and Colin Conway, 2024 The Silence of the Dead came across my Facebook feed about 6 weeks ago, as I recently became a member of my local writer’s guild. I saw that a Spokane-based writer had a new book release—a crime novel centering on possible corruption in the Spokane Police Department (SPD), spanning […]
Say Nothing—A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
by Patrick Radden Keefe, 2019 Spurred on by reading the 2013 obituary of Dolours Price in the New York Times, the author, a journalist for The New Yorker, became intrigued enough by her story to start researching for Say Nothing. Ms. Price, formerly a central figure in the Irish Republican Army (IRA), had been the […]
Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders
by Kathryn Miles, 2022 Just released on May 3, 2022, I’ve blasted through Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders within 5 days of its release date. This is a true account of two female backpackers who were murdered in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park in May 1996. They were there for a week-long […]
Notes on an Execution
by Danya Kukafka, 2022 Notes on an Execution had such an eerie, true-to-life feeling for me that at one point as I was listening to the audiobook, I had to stop and double-check what I’d purchased: was this fiction or nonfiction? Because it’s been a long, long time since I’ve listened to a book where […]
Razorblade Tears: A Novel
by S. A. Cosby, 2021 Sometimes I want to just dive into something trashy and escapist, and that’s when I reach for some good ol’ fashioned crime fiction. Let the bodies pile up! Razorblade Tears: A Novel is about two married gay men, Isiah and Derek, who get murdered. One is Black, one is white, […]