Tag Archives: mystery

Die For Me: A Bragg Thriller – Jack Lynch

Posted on July 5, 2015 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Follow the grief and you’ll find the killer.” Peter Bragg, a former San Francisco Chronicle reporter turned private investigator is contacted by a woman, Maribeth, from his past. It’s not what you think. When he was … Continue reading →

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The Dangerous Edge of Things – Tina Whittle

Posted on May 27, 2015 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Lee Nelson) I am a Trey Woman and I cannot lie! I just finished Tina Whittle’s debut novel, The Dangerous Edge of Things and fell madly in love with her style, her characters, and her ability to truly … Continue reading →

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From the Ashes – Sabrina Flynn

Posted on May 22, 2015 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Lee Nelson) Let’s get the elephant out of the room: I’ve known of Flynn from my membership in Letters of Mary, a fan-fiction group devoted to Laurie L. King. I met her at 2014 Bouchercon in Long Beach … Continue reading →

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The Body in the Birches – A Faith Fairchild Mystery -Katherine Hall Page

Posted on May 5, 2015 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Melanie Hamilton) It is a kind of relief when, after being laid off from the law firm, Sophie Maxwell learns that she has to take her mother’s place-who, by the way is in Europe with her new husband- … Continue reading →

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See Also Murder: A Marjorie Trumaine Mystery – Larry D. Sweazy

Posted on May 1, 2015 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Melanie Hamilton) Author Larry D. Sweazy conjures up party-line, rocket-finned cars and long, black pay telephones in See Also, Murder, his version of 1967 North Dakota. When Hilo Jenkins delivers the news of Lida and Erik Knudsen’s murder, … Continue reading →

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In Secret Service – Mitch Silver

Posted on April 11, 2015 by J D Jung

Reviewed by Lillian Thurston Ian Fleming may be gone, but this fascinating tale of a 40-year-old secret resurrects the old master. Raymond Greenberg of New Haven, Connecticut, is dead. As executor to his will, his granddaughter, Amy Greenberg, a young … Continue reading →

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Intent to Hold – Thonie Hevron

Posted on April 2, 2015 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “But she’d killed a man. Even though he was inches away from stabbing a deputy, it instigated a worse series of incidents that had almost killed her. The last months had drained her in ways she … Continue reading →

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The Vices – Lawrence Douglas

Posted on December 23, 2014 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “It would be years before I would be prepared to accept his self-assessment [as a sick person], and even then, not fully. …he was handsome, wealthy, the youngest tenured professor at one of the nation’s … Continue reading →

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Errata – Michael Allen Zell

Posted on May 11, 2014 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “New Orleans seems to exist as a blank slate for outsiders to grasp and cast their own aspirations, pretenses, and prejudices upon. A few of the outsiders always end up lingering, holding fast, and adding to … Continue reading →

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The Clock – Kenneth Fearing (Introduction by Nicholas Christopher)

Posted on September 7, 2012 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by J.D. Jung) Everyone adjusts their life to the big clock; sometimes it races forward, sometimes it moves backward. It impersonally reaches for some, and forgets others. George Stroud is one who it reaches for, but fortunately misses. Stroud, a married … Continue reading →

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