Category Archives: Crime, Mystery and Thrillers
Zero Avenue: A Crime Novel – Dietrich Kalteis
(Reviewed by JD Jung) 1970s Vancouver- The young punk scene is vibrant and on the rise. Twenty four year- old singer/guitarist Frankie Del Rey just wants to make enough for her band, Middle Finger, to record an EP. So to … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, Canadian literature, crime fiction, punk rock
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The Last Girl – Danny Lopez
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Now I was a fucked-up has-been unemployed reporter for a small-town paper. All that hard work, the anger, the resolution, the desire, the accomplishments—it had all been for nothing. I was as good as my dying … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, crime fiction, Sarasota
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Fall – Candice Fox
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “How to explain it all to him, a normal human man, someone with all his faculties, with a soul. How to explain that at the core of her being Eden killed people the way she breathed, … Continue reading
Mistletoe and Murder – S.L. Smith
(Reviewed by Don Jung) Mistletoe and Murder is the fourth installment in the detective Pete Culnane series. The story starts out with a New Year’s Eve wedding reception in the historic Saint Paul Union Depot in Minneapolis where the matriarch, … Continue reading
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Plato Wyngard and the Valley of the Immortals – Marc and James Lindsay
(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Plato Wyngard and the Valley of the Immortals is a thriller fiction story, written about Plato Wyngard. He is in search of answers to his father’s death; instead, he becomes stuck in the Vietnam War trying … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, thrillers, Vietnam War
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Death of a Busybody (British Library Crime Classics) – George Bellairs
(Reviewed by JD Jung) Fifty year old Miss Ethel Tither has made a lot of enemies in her years in the English village of Hilary Magna. She is a major financial donor to the Home Gospel Alliance for Bringing Sinners … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, British crime, classic fiction, detective fiction, fiction
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Red-handed in Romanée-Conti – Jean-Pierre Alaux , Noël Balen (Translated from the French by Sally Pane)
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Benjamin knew that sometimes people were like wine. If they sat and breathed for a while, their full complexity could be revealed, even more so in the right environment and with the right people.” Benjamin Cooker, … Continue reading
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Tagged crime fiction, French literature, wine
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The Watcher – Eli Carros
(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) The Watcher is a crime fiction story written about Chief Inspector Jack Grayson and his journey, hunting a serial killer terrorizing London. The killer attacks blond girls, cuts their throats and then leaves behind a necklace … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, crime fiction, fiction, London
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Addict (The Cassie Tam Files Book 1) – Matt Doyle
(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Addict is a science fiction story about Cassie Tam, the first book of the Cassie Tam Files. The setting of the story is in New Hopeland. Everything is in the future with things like tech shifters … Continue reading
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Killjoy – LeVar Ravel
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Gwen felt as if her familiar world had vanished. What was she doing in the middle of this wilderness? Was she safe in these shadows? Had Charles been right to trust this violent man with her … Continue reading
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Tagged assassin, book review, fiction, hypocrisy, novella, Religion, suspense, thriller
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