So many genres, so little time
TV producer Kate Zoë Thomas, fleeing an abduction in Afghanistan and heartbreak in Boston, accepts the first job that gives her a fresh start: station manager at a tiny community channel on Wynter Island in the Canadian Gulf Islands. But, try as she may, Kate cannot outrun her bad luck. On a moonlit walk to… Continue reading The Raven’s Cry (Wynter Island Mystery #1) by Kim Herdman Shapiro
The clock ticks down in a heart-pounding crusade for justiceSusan Lentigo's daughter was murdered twenty years ago—and now, at long last, this small-town waitress sets out on a road trip all the way from Upstate New York to North Dakota to witness the killer's execution.She discovers shocking new evidence on her journey that leads her… Continue reading The Necklace by Matt Witten
Can you see a killer before it’s too late? On the first day of her new job, D.I. Eva Harris is called to the scene of a brutal murder at the heart of Surrey society. A shocking crime by a meticulous killer – who escaped with the victim’s eyes. Harris ' efforts to find the killer become… Continue reading 20/20 by Carl Goodman
Maddie had no idea how many laws she'd broken in the last week. They all paled next to kidnapping. Since she'd been advised not to leave the state, she was pretty sure having temporary custody wouldn't get her anywhere in court. Not that it mattered. She'd never get to court. She'd die before she gave… Continue reading A Knight in Cowboy Boots (McKnight, #1) by Suzie Quint
"When two young sisters disappear from a strip mall parking lot in a small Pennsylvania town, their devastated mother hires an enigmatic bounty hunter, Alice Vega, to help find the girls. Immediately shut out by a local police department already stretched thin by budget cuts and the growing OxyContin and meth epidemic, Vega enlists the… Continue reading Two Girls Down (Alice Vega Book 1) by Louisa Luna
It's amazing what you can keep buried when you want to. A body is found in the small Aussie town of Smithson. She was Rosalind Ryan, a local drama teacher and pregnant. Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is assigned the case with her partner, Detective Sergeant Felix McKinnon. The detectives find out this is not a… Continue reading The Dark Lake (Gemma Woodstock Book 1) by Sarah Bailey
I recently started a book challenge list that asked me to read a book with the word "dog" in the title and to my delight when searching the NetGalley list The Dog Walker's Diary came up first. Daniel Ashe is a literary agent who has never fell in love and is looking for an awesome… Continue reading The Dog Walker’s Diary by Kathryn Donahue
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 Book 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
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 Mystery # 12) by John Shannon