No One Left To Come Looking For You by Sam Lipsyte
/
A review of Sam Lipsyte’s unconventional seventh novel.
Read More
It’s a Mystery: “Murder, I have often noticed, is a great matchmaker.”
/
A masterfully plotted, mind-bending thriller that harkens back to the days when Agatha Christie ruled the genre.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “The surest way to work up a crusade for some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone”
/
A richly atmospheric novel that explores love and pain in many guises.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: There is no “I” in Team
/
A trail full of twists and turns that takes delightful detective duo Lydia Chin and Bill Smith deep into unlikely places.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Experience, contrary to common belief, is mostly imagination”
/
Leon portrays Venice, one of the most intriguing cities on earth, with an added dimension all her own.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Evil for evil’s sake is an invention of man”
/
A mystery that comes together like the bulletin board full of thread and pins.
Read MoreIn a House of Lies by Ian Rankin
/
John Rebus retired a few books ago, but he has a way of turning up.
Read MoreClassic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s
/
A grand arrangement of five classic and addictively readable pulp novels,
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “When one is unique, one knows it!”
/
Agatha Christie’s legendary detective Hercule Poirot returns in this elegantly ingenious mystery set in 1930’s London.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “You couldn’t betray someone efficiently if you didn’t love them first”
/
A multilayered, complex novel that explores how the sins of our fathers reflect upon us in an entirely new way.
Read MoreBrief Cases by Jim Butcher
/
With Brief Cases, Butcher brings together his second collection of short stories, following 2010’s Side Jobs.
Read MoreA Handful of Ashes by Rob McCarthy
/
Grieving parents are demanding answers, but everyone has secrets. Harry Kent and Detective Chief Inspector Frankie Noble have to find out which secrets were worth killing for.
Read MoreThe Hoarder by Jess Kidd
/
Kidd’s boundless, imaginative powers drive the plot forward in this amateur detective story with a gothic twist.
Read MoreRobicheaux by James Lee Burke
/
It's oddly comforting that the only lazy or derivative thing about James Lee Burke's 21st novel featuring tough-guy New Orleans sheriff's detective Dave Robicheaux is its title; there's no good reason why this latest book should be called simply Robicheaux – or alternately, no good reason why any of the previous 20 couldn't have been called that; it feels like the title you'd give the final book in your series, the one in which your hero finally heat-shots and throat-punches his way to Valhalla.
Read MoreBlack and White and Dead All Over by John Darnton
/
Fairly ominous, when a book’s very title is a cliché, a pun, or a play on words. More ominous still when it’s all three, as in John Darnton’s new novel Black and White and Dead All Over, in which the ailing print newspaper trade forms the backdrop for a series of murders. In the newsroom of the New York Globe, an editor is found dead, and Smart, Ambitious Female Detective and Crusty, Righteous Guy Reporter team up to find the killer.
Read More