So many genres, so little time
I started my book review blog in 2009 and I have read so many outstanding books that I wanted to share them again with my followers. I first posted this review in February 2012. "He Died with His Eyes Open" is a series and is one of the first noir crime books I read, and… Continue reading He Died with His Eyes Open (Factory #1) by Derek Raymond
Cameron Vaux is literally losing his mind and he needs to find the "Book of Days" before it is too late. Both his dying father and dying wife refer to this book as God's life history of everyone in the world even showing the future whether you want to see it or not. Cameron takes… Continue reading Book of Days by James L. Rubart
Anna Politkovskaya was a correspondent for the Novaya Gazeta newspaper and was an outspoken critic of the Kremlin and its policies in Chechnya. The definition of a hero in many people's eyes is a person who is admired for courage or noble qualities. Anna was more than a hero. She was the voice of the… Continue reading Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches by Anna Politkovskaya
Vicki Frost is a fidelity anthropologist which is a fancy name for a private investigator who investigates cheating husbands. She's very good at her job and has caught many men red-handed, but she has a dilemma. She has fallen for one of them and she is being threatened by more than just the angry wife.… Continue reading Excuse Me, Miss (EMM #1) by Phillip Thomas Duck
This book starts out with a terrifying moment of a woman getting stabbed by a cold blooded mad man named Norris. The suspense continues to build when we see Norris with a completely different personality. Is he mad or isn’t he? Sassy thinks he is the one, but events start to happen which cause her… Continue reading Sassy by Gloria Mallette
Shannon takes you into the battle of Los Angeles' Bayboys, teen age surfers and Mexican immigrants by sending Jack Liffey to find a missing child. What Liffey uncovers is revenge, murder and men with a strong will to survive. This book is well written, but I could have done without the footnotes and the historical/literary… Continue reading Palos Verdes Blue (Jack Liffey # 11) by John Shannon
Third in the DS Stella Mooney series, this is a refreshing police procedural with fully developed characters, a lot of action and the plot takes some shocking twists that will totally surprise the reader who will have a hard time waiting to see what happens next. Fans who appreciate a complex murder mystery will want… Continue reading Cold Kill (DS Stella Mooney #3) by David Lawrence
In St. Marks, death by murder is punishable by hanging. Little did Stone Barrington know that his long-awaited vacation was going to be interrupted by a legal case from Hell. Stone Barrington is a retired cop and a New York lawyer on a beautiful Caribbean island alone. He has been stood up by his girlfriend… Continue reading Dead in the Water (Stone Barrington #3) by Stuart Woods
Third in the Rosie Winters series, Ms. Haines takes us to the South Pacific during World War II. Rosie and gal pal Jayne have joined the USO and are headed to the South Pacific to try to find Rosie’s ex-boyfriend, Jack, who is missing in action (MIA). The minute they step foot on the boat,… Continue reading Winter in June (Rosie Winter Mysteries #3) by Kathryn Miller Haines