King Peso is the latest offering by Carmen Amato in the Emilia Cruz crime mystery series set in the corrupted Mexico. Emilia is a by now seasoned detective working at the Acapulco police station with colleagues who range from liking her, to being weary of her, to disliking her and wanting her out of the…
Riker’s Calling is a rather short standalone novel by Rico Lamoureux published this August. The author asked me if I could read and review the book and as I was going on holidays shortly, I agreed, since I knew I needed lots of reading material while enjoying my time at the beach for 2 weeks. In…
The Body Reader is the latest novel by the popular romantic suspense author Anne Frasier, and so far a standalone. I read everything I can put my hands on by this author, I’ve been one of her loyal fans from the time I’ve read Hush, back in early 2002 I think. While I love romantic…
The Dance if Dimitrios is the third book in the Detective Chief Inspector Michael Lambert crime mystery series by the author Patrick Brigham. In the first book of the series called Judas Goat when Michael Lambert made his appearance for the first time, he was a chief inspector with the Thames Valley Police Authority. In Dance of Dimitrios we meet Lambert…
Little Boy Blue is the latest offering by the author M.J. Arlidge in his popular Helen Grace British crime mystery series. I received the book from Netgalley a while ago and really wanted to review it earlier, however, what kept me from it was the fact that I can’t stand not reading all the books in…
What a great hidden gem this book was! Ochoco Reach by J.R. Stewart truly surprised me. I sort of put off reading it because I’m weary of reading book related to drug cartels. It’s just not a topic that is close to my heart. However this novel was so much more than that, and in…
The Doll’s House is the third book in the Helen Grace crime series by the British crime mystery author M.J. Arlidge. I have started reading the series soon after book 1, Eeny Meeny came out, and I got hooked right away, even though it was the author’s debut novel. Inspector Helen Grace seems to get…
The Night Charter by Sam Hawken is a fun and entertaining book which I’ve read quite fast. It did help that it’s an action packed adventure-crime mystery novel, where the suspense is present every step of the way. Camaro Espinoza has a boat called Annabel which she uses to run charter catch-and-release fishing trips off the…
Quicksand is the first book in the Nora Khalil series by the author Carolyn Baugh. Nora Khalil is a heroine that the crime thriller genre was a long time missing. Daughter of Egyptian immigrants, she is living with her father in Philadelphia now that her mother has passed away. She is a Muslim police officer, a fact which plays a main part…
I picked up The Collector by Anne-Laure Thiéblemont because the blurb mentioned it is a thriller set in the art world, which is a sub-genre I enjoy reading every now and then. This world is full of shady ‘experts’ who steal, plunder and sometimes even kill others to get their greedy little hands on valuable artifacts, so I knew I would…
