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Crazy Blood
Crazy Blood
by T. Jefferson Parker
Crazy Blood (12/29/2015)
Former newspaper reporter, T. Johnson Parker, leaves L.A., site of most of his well-received crime novels, and moves his latest novel to Mammoth Lakes in California's ski country. The result is an enjoyable read
featuring Olympic-level skiing, dysfunctional family, and a …more
Far From True
Far From True: A Promise Falls Novel
by Linwood Barclay
Well written crime novel, annoyingly structured (11/29/2015)
Best-seller Canadian crime-novelist ,Linwood Barclay, sets his stories in Promise Falls, a run-down town in northern NY state. Though the town's economy is depressed, its citizens are lively; there is enough murdering bad behavior and sexual derring-do to satisfy a hot Las …more
Frank & Ava
Frank & Ava: In Love and War
by John Brady
Frank and Ava: Unhappily Ever After (7/27/2015)
Written by John Brady, author of Craft of Interviewing (1977), Frank and Ava: In Love and War is well-researched and clearly written. It focuses on the tempestuous on-again, off-again romance between famous Rat Packer Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner, the insecure movie …more
Jade Dragon Mountain
Jade Dragon Mountain
by Elsa Hart
Jade Dragon Mountain a Gem (5/29/2015)
Writing successful historical mysteries is not for the faint-hearted: the author must plot skillfully, while effectively presenting the historical characters and setting without bogging down amongst arcane information which does not propel the story.

Daughter of a U.S. …more
Shocking Paris
Shocking Paris: Soutine, Chagall and the Outsiders of Montparnasse
by Stanley Meisler
Shocking Paris: Soutine, Chagall and the Outsiders of Montparnasse (1/2/2015)
Frequent Smithsonian Magazine contributor, Stanley Meisler, takes one into the art world of early 20th Century Paris, focusing on foreign-born artists, many of them Jewish, drawn to the City of Lights by its relatively free-wheeling and permissive culture.

Of central …more
The Nightingale
The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
WWII France Frames This Classy Chick Lit Tale (9/18/2014)
As with most of her best-selling novels, Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale focuses on the intricacies of family relationships. Here, she has set her fast paced tale during the very bleak years of the Nazi Occupation of France (1940-45). Little surprise then that the plucky, …more
The Devil in the Marshalsea
The Devil in the Marshalsea
by Antonia Hodgson
A Devilish Good Read (3/3/2014)
A cunning debut historical mystery by Antonia Hodgson, editor in chief of Little, Brown, UK. Thoroughly researched, this mystery is set in London's Marshalsea debtor's prison in 1727.Tom Watson, a charming, handsome parson's son who prefers London highlife to the quiet …more
Her Last Breath
Her Last Breath: A Kate Burkholder Novel
by Linda Castillo
As meaty as a Hostess Twinkie (5/26/2013)
Her Last Breath is author Linda Castillo's fifth in her mystery police procedurals featuring Kate Burkholder as police chief in the small Amish town of Painters Mill, Ohio.  The series began in 2007 with Sworn to Silence, which has recently been adapted into a  …more
And When She Was Good
And When She Was Good: A Novel
by Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman: And When She Was Good (7/24/2012)
Award-winning mystery novelist, Laura Lippman, has delivered another winner. Deftly, Lippman lures the reader into the morally murky world of a suburban Madam known variously as Helen-Heloise-Hel. Just like any suburban Mom, Helen is out to protect and provide for her son, …more
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