So many genres, so little time
Lu Fei is a graduate of China’s top police college but he’s been assigned to a sleepy backwater town in northern China, where almost nothing happens and the theft of a few chickens represents a major crime wave. That is until a young woman is found dead, her organs removed, and joss paper stuffed in… Continue reading Thief of Souls (Inspector Lu Fei Mystery #1) by Brian Klingborg
Sarah With one eye on the rearview mirror and the other on the road ahead, Sarah is desperate to get as far away from the remote Scottish cabin as she can without attracting attention. But being inconspicuous isn’t easy with a black eye and clothes soaked in blood… … and now the fuel tank is… Continue reading Blood Loss (DI Paton #1) by Kerena Swan
She’s dying, and she knows it. If only she can stay alive long enough to leave one last message. As the rain beats against the metal roof, she uses her blood-soaked fingertip to scrawl on the floorboards... The letters GB. Detective Madison Knight has been house hunting, but a call from her real estate agent has… Continue reading What We Bury (Madison Knight #10) by Carolyn Arnold
For wealthy socialite Katrina Vandenburg, business meetings and charity galas are all part of her orderly, structured world—one that gets blown to hell after finding two dead bodies in the same day. The police think she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. FBI Special Agent Dayne Andrews thinks otherwise. Dayne and his… Continue reading Trap ‘N’ Trace (Federal K-9 #4) by Tee O’Fallon
A killer running rings around the police. A detective spiraling out of control. DI Kate Young is on leave. She’s the force’s best detective, but her bosses know she’s under pressure, on medication and overcoming trauma. So after her bad judgement call leads to a narrowly averted public disaster, they’re sure all she needs is… Continue reading An Eye for an Eye (Detective Kate Young #1) by Carol Wyer
An Australian alpine ghost town. A priest turned supernatural detective. A missing persons cold case. Will bolder track down the voracious demon? When Detective Wellock hushers in Zack Bolder to investigate a missing person case in the Australian ghost town of Walhalla, they form the most formidable tag team of supernatural investigators, working for the… Continue reading Bolder Blindsided (Zacker Bolder #1) by Janice Tremayne
A demolition site. A body, wrapped in plastic sheeting, is unearthed in the bucket of a mechanical digger. Could Cross’ sudden, abrupt U-turn in the middle of this investigation be the biggest mistake of his career? Odd tanning lines on his body and scars on his forearms enable DS George Cross to narrow down his… Continue reading The Cyclist (DS George Cross #2) by Tim Sullivan
A homeless man. Violently strangled. No leads. Except his past. An outsider himself, DS George Cross is drawn to this case. The discovery of the dead man's connection to an old cold case then pulls Cross in further. Convinced this is where the answer to the murder lies, he sets about solving another that someone… Continue reading The Dentist (DS George Cross #1) by Tim Sullivan
The return of the world's first Artificially Intelligent Private Investigator, Raymond 3000. Sentenced with other Andro-Americans to a concentration camp for alleged crimes against the state, Raymond is temporarily freed to help find who is behind a series of terrorist bombings targeting the city. MY REVIEW Raymond 3000, my favorite smartass android and former private… Continue reading The Big Sleep Mode (A.I. P.I. #2) by Ian Patrick Williams
In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his estranged father’s funeral takes place. On the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too. Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a… Continue reading The Long Call (Two Rivers #1) by Ann Cleeves