The Wedding Guest, by Jonathan Kellerman, is the 34th book in the Alex Delaware series of novels. He’s been writing them at the rate of about one per year since 1985. I’ve read most of them, and I’ve been a big fan. So, I say the following with the greatest of...
The Longmire Defense: A Longmire Mystery was my introduction to the series by Craig Johnson. The character is evidently also the subject of a Netflix original series. I don’t have Netflix, so I wasn’t familiar with it. Walter Longmire is the aging sheriff of a rural...
The Twenty, by Sam Holland, is an engaging serial killer police procedural thriller set in the UK. I must confess up front that I am not a big fan of serial killer fiction. I am ambivalent about the voyeurism it encourages, the disingenuous way it seeks to entertain...
Robert B. Parker’s Bad Influence – A Sunny Randall Novel by Alison Gaylin. If you’re familiar with the late, great Robert B. Parker’s Boston, you’ll know Sunny Randall. She’s a former cop who now works as a private investigator in Boston. She has had an on again...
Malibu Burning, by the popular and prolific Lee Goldberg, introduces us to Walter Sharpe and Andrew Walker, a pair of arson investigators at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department. The book is the first in a series. Sharpe is an old curmudgeon, a...
