Book Quote: “The hardest part is trying to find a way of accepting that there is nothing you can do about any of it. Nothing you can do to change it, or to put the clock back, or put things right if they were wrong.” Book Review: Review by Eleanor Bukowsky (SEP 3, 2010) Susan Hill’s The Shadows in the Street is her fifth Simon Serrallier mystery. Hill continues to engage us with fresh characters and intriguing story lines.... 

Book Quote: “During the day Three Stations was in constant motion, a Circus Maximus with cars…. Drunks were everywhere, but hard to see because they were as gray as the pavement they sprawled on. They were bandaged or bloody or on crutches like casualties of war…. At Three Stations the crippled, outcast and usually hidden member of society gathered like the Court…  Read More →

Book Quote: “Hearing Miaow refer to herself as his daughter makes Rafferty smile, although he knows she won’t like his smile any more than she seems to like anything else these days.” Book Review: Review by Lynn Harnett (AUG 17, 2010) Hallinan sets a breakneck pace in his third to feature American ex-pat and longtime Bangkok resident, Poke Rafferty. Married to Rose, a tall, confident Thai beauty, and adoptive father of Miaow, a precocious... 

Book Quote: “Hearing Miaow refer to herself as his daughter makes Rafferty smile, although he knows she won’t like his smile any more than she seems to like anything else these days.” Book Review: Review by Lynn Harnett (AUG 17, 2010) Hallinan sets a breakneck pace in his third to feature American ex-pat and longtime Bangkok resident, Poke Rafferty. Married to Rose, a tall, confident Thai beauty, and adoptive father …  Read More →

Book Quote: “And here let me say that Mr. Gryce, the detective, was not the thin, wiry individual with a shrewd eye that seems to plunge into the core of your being and pounce at once upon its hidden secret that you are doubtless expecting to see. Mr. Gryce was a portly, comfortable personage with an eye that never pounced, that did not even rest — on you. If it rested anywhere, it was always on some insignificant object in your... 

Book Quote: “The scream followed the unmistakable sound of a blade thrusting into flesh….” “It came again, the same butcher’s blow, accompanied this time by a grunt of effort. A second piercing shriek of surprise and outrage turned abruptly into a guttural rasping: the gargle of a dying man whose lungs refuse to function, whose air passages are filling with blood. And yet the unseen victim went on fighting to snatch... 

Book Quote: “Years ago, a well-meaning training officer had told her never to question a superior’s decision, forget fair, just do the job ignore the politics and don’t take it home.” Book Review: Review by Guy Savage (JUL 5, 2010) Scottish crime novel Still Midnight from author Denise Mina explores the levels of prejudice which taint the investigation of a non-textbook kidnapping case. When Glasgow based detective Alex Morrow... 

Book Quote: “Something had caused the previous occupants of this settlement to flee, leaving doors unlocked, windows open, and meals uneaten. Something so terrible it had caused them to abandon cherished pets to cold and starvation. Was it still here, the thing that drove them from this place? Or was there nothing at all there except her own dark fantasies, born of fear and isolation?” Book Review: Review by Eleanor Bukowsky (JUL... 

Book Quote: “ None of this makes sense. ” Book Review: Review by Eleanor Bukowsky (JUN 23, 2010) Karin Slaughter brings together some of her most memorable characters in Broken , her latest thriller. Twenty-one year old Allison Spooner is at the end of her rope. She is short of money, her boyfriend has disappointed her, and her rusted-out hulk of a car is on its last legs. She is struggling to keep up with her college classes at... 

Book Quote: “Show me your hands!” Alves commanded, ducking behind another tree. He was less than ten yards away now. He put the light on the perp again. In the artificial cone of yellow light, Alves saw that the figure was wearing a tuxedo. Stepping from behind the tree, Alves made his way forward. The man stood unnaturally rigid. Not even a flinch as Alves stepped over brush and dry leaves to reach him. The man was ocean frank, like the... 

Book Quote: “Using a black Magic Marker, I wrote down the date of each woman’s abduction, and beneath that, the things that linked them – – age, athleticism, and the fact that they were all nursing students.” Book Review: Review by Bonnie Brody (MAY 25, 2010) Before getting kicked off the police force, Private eye Jack Carpenter served for sixteen years as head of the missing persons department for the Broward County... 

Book Quote: I’d gone off to Detroit so that someday I might be able to come back to Starvation and walk up to Elvis and tell him, “ Why don’t you go to hell, so what if I lost a stupid hockey game years ago? Look at me now, a big-city reporter, a Pulitzer Prize winner.” But there I was, just another…  Read More →

Book Quote: “In the back of the van were a crowbar, a tangle of battery cables, one basket containing newly laid eggs from his own hens, and another with his garden’s first spring peas. Two tennis rackets, a pair of rugby boots, sneakers, and a large bag with various kinds of sports attire and a spare line from a fishing rod added to the jumble. Tucked neatly to one side were a first-aid kit, a small tool chest, a blanket, and a picnic... 

Book Quote: “The pieces of this case, maybe two or three cases, held together by the thinnest of wires: circumstance and an educated guess. The rest floated and turned in the darkness, offering themselves up as a piece of the puzzle, with no real clue as to how or why.” Book Review: Review by Eleanor Bukowsky (APR 22, 2010) The Windy City is the setting for Michael Harvey’s fast-paced thriller, The Third Rail . Private investigator Michael... 

Book Quote: “Puri considered the doctor’s stern warning as he sank his teeth into another hot, crispy pakora and his taste buds thrilled to the tang of salty batter, fiery chili and the tangy red chutney in which he had drowned the illicit snack. He derived a perverse sense of satisfaction from defying Dr. Mohan’s orders. Still, the fifty-one-year-old detective shuddered to think what his wife would say if she found out he...