When a tall figure wearing a black robe and hood appears on the village green of Three Pines, everyone in town is slightly alarmed. The figure doesn't move, doesn't talk, but simply stands as if waiting or watching. But waiting or watching for what or for whom? As tensions grow, Armand Gamache, Superintendent of the Sûreté [...]

Michael Connelly has years of experience writing detective stories, having great success with his Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller books, series that feature tough male protagonists. The author's newest book, titled The Late Show, features a woman protagonist, which I found to be intriguing. Why choose to write a female character when your male detectives have [...]

Jane Harper’s debut novel The Dry is fantastic. It takes place in rural Australia during a bad drought and the author really makes you feel like you are there. Businesses in the small town of Kiewarra are closing because the surrounding farms are failing - crops can’t survive and farm animals can’t be fed or watered [...]

Rusty Puppy is another hilarious Hap and Leonard novel by Joe Lansdale that is both easy reading and hard to put down.  This time, Hap and Leonard are hired by a black woman to find out the circumstances of her son’s murder.  The son was a good kid who was never involved in anything illegal and [...]

Lena Jones hears screams and old instincts kick in, even though she is no longer a police officer. She then finds her friend, Clarice Kobe, dead on the floor of Clarice’s art gallery. She had been beaten to death. Clarice’s estranged and abusive husband is arrested for the murder. But then his lawyer asks Lena for [...]

I should never have been nervous to read Adrian McKinty’s latest Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly.  The reason I was hesitant was because in McKinty’s last Detective Duffy book, Duffy became seriously involved with a woman named Beth and they had a baby.  In general, in novels and TV shows, I like [...]