Donovan’s M.I.A.: Big Stories for a Small World, by Sid Lenington, isn’t quite a book of short stories. Three of its four stories might better be called novellas. In the titular “Donovan’s M.I.A.,” which reads like a literary memoir, the author shares a dark family...
MONARCH: Stories is a debut collection of short stories by Emily Jon Tobias that takes you into the dark heart of American lives, mostly those of young women on the run from, and to, a lot of trouble. As the author herself explains in her introduction, she left home...
One Half Truth, is the sixth in Eva Dolan’s series of police procedural mysteries featuring Detective Inspector (DI) Zigic and Detective Sergeant (DS) Ferreira novel by Eva Dolan. Set in the British city of Peterborough, which is about 75 miles from London, the book...
Escape is the third in the Billy Harney series of thrillers by James Patterson and David Ellis. Harney leads an elite team of Chicago police. The book opens with Harney and his partner, Clara, hot on the trail of a pedophile kidnapper. They chase the man into a house,...
Movieland is the fourth installment of Lee Goldberg’s Eve Ronin series. At 26, Ronin is the youngest homicide investigator in the history of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department. She shot up the ranks of detectives, past more senior, male deputies after being...
Gated Prey is the third in the series of Eve Ronin Mysteries by Lee Goldberg. At 26, Ronin is the youngest homicide investigator in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD). She leapfrogged over more senior detectives after becoming famous for knocking out a...
According to writing lore, there are just two stories in the world, told in endless variations. One is “A man (or woman) goes on a journey.” The other is “A stranger comes to town.” City Under One Roof, by Iris Yamashita, is both. The stranger who goes on a journey is...
Neon Prey, published in 2019, is John Sandford’s 29th book in the Prey series featuring Lucas Davenport. For newcomers to the series, Davenport is a burly former hockey player turned cop, who made millions in the software business as he became a top homicide...
Redemption is the fifth book in the “Memory Man” series by #DavidBaldacci. It features Amos Decker, a former homicide detective from a small Ohio city who now works as a consultant to the FBI. For the uninitiated, Amos Becker has a double backstory that makes him a...
What She Found is the 9th installment of Robert Dugoni’s Tracy Crosswhite series, but the first that I have read. Crosswhite is a Seattle homicide detective now working cold cases. She’s got a knack for it and is generally considered an outstanding investigator. She...
