Among the Wicked by Linda Castillo is the eighth Kate Burkholder novel, which finds the chief of police undercover in an Amish community in Upstate New York. Take a visual tour of Among the Wicked with GIFnotes! Representations of the Amish in fiction bring to mind the inspirational romances of authors like Beverly Lewis. We tend to…
To celebrate the upcoming release of J.D. Robb's 44th Eve Dallas mystery, Echoes in Death, we're taking a look back at every single book in the In Death series. Today, John Jacobson reviews #40, Obsession in Death. Obsession in Death marks the 40th official title in the In Death series. After reviewing Festive in Death, I managed…
To celebrate the upcoming release of J.D. Robb's 44th Eve Dallas mystery, Echoes in Death, we're taking a look back at every single book in the In Death series. Today, John Jacobson reviews #39, Festive in Death. At book 39 (wow) of the In Death series, Festive in Death is a great way to look at the…
To celebrate the upcoming release of J.D. Robb's 44th Eve Dallas mystery, Echoes in Death, we're taking a look back at every single book in the In Death series. Today, John Jacobson reviews #4, Rapture in Death. As the 4th book in J.D. Robb’s In Death series, Rapture in Death is an encapsulated look at the…
Flame Out by M.P. Cooley is the 2nd small-town mystery featuring FBI-agent-turned-local-cop June Lyons set in Hopewell Falls, NY (available June 2, 2015). Where and when are more than just integral parts to a news story – they’re also integral parts to an investigation. In this case, the ‘what’ is M.P. Cooley’s sophomore novel Flame…
The Body in the Birches by Katherine Hall Page is the 22nd cozy mystery in the Faith Fairchild series set in Maine (available May 12, 2015). Some books make you hungry as well as intrigued. Katherine Hall Page is clearly a master at making her readers crave food while solving a murder, because The Body…
Wink of an Eye is the debut mystery by Lynn Chandler Willis about a Los Angeles private eye who returns home to a small town in Texas (available November 18, 2014). Wink of an Eye is a modern mystery set in the small town of Wink, Texas. That small town life and the integration of…
Bad Country by CB McKenzie is a debut mystery set in Arizona featuring a former rodeo cowboy turned private investigator told in an original, colloquial style (available November 4, 2014). Within the essence of a mystery, there is a definitive effect of setting and local culture on the internal vibrations of the unraveling of the…
The Perfect Witness by Iris Johansen is a romatic thriller about the daughter of a mob boss whose visions into people's darkest mark her for death, until a dangerous man helps her bury her identity and her gifts to survive (available September 30, 2014). The latest romantic thriller from Iris Johansen delves into the supernatural…
