All Blog Posts Tagged 'crime' (154)

About Surprise Larceny:

Frank had it all figured out: a few under-the-the table money transfers, a new identity, and a plan to live out his retirement years a self-made man. He would have succeeded too, if it weren’t for an untimely surprise. Instead, he wakes up in a hospital to find that a couple of his coworkers have…

Title: Fantastic mixture of action and politics.

As a daughter, when your father allows you a glimpse into his past, telling stories which help you understand the man he has become it’s an honour. So, when Bobby Valentine visits his daughter Lynn she cannot resist…

4 out of 5 stars

A look at the ugly side of life

What if a computer…

The Bat by Jo Nesbo an outstanding crime thriller. Now available in the U.S. for first time. Highly recommended. http://billsmedia.blogspot.com

The highly recommended action packed sequel.

When Robert ‘Bobby’ Valentine’s daughter Lynn asks him for more stories about The Starlight Club, how can he…

The Starlight Club by Joe Corso

Winner of the eLit…

Move over Clive Cussler!…

About A Gift of Gold:

Lucia is a voluptuous beauty, so who could imagine she would fall for Happy Jack, a middle-aged gambler and racketeer, with a wife and children? But fall she does, into a relationship going nowhere. After 20 years, his wife has died, and Jack is free to marry again.…

By John Sandford

Published May 2010 408 pages

Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated…

From my personal library

Rating: 5 of 5 - sheer perfection

Have you ever smelled the magnolias, tasted the gumbo, seen the Spanish moss strung like Christmas garlands in the live oaks, heard the rain play on a tin…

Rating: 4

This book makes me want to go back to school.

Jackson Carter is an anthropology professor at Thomas Ford University in Illinois. He has returned from Africa and written a book…

978-1-4516-4311-4

Rating - Read This!

A Virgil Flowers Novel

By John Sandford

Putnam 388 pgs

978-0-399-15769-1

Rating: Read This Book!

Virgil Flowers is back, our favorite shitkicker detective. This is the OK Corral: not only is he after the bad guys but he's cleaning up the town while he's at it.

Our story begins when a bomb explodes in a Michigan high rise housing the corporate headquarters of PyeMart, a builder of some sort of upscale Walmart things. Three weeks later…

A Vanessa Michael Munroe Novel

By Taylor Stevens

Crown Publishers, 331 pgs

978-0-307-71712-2

Rating: 2.5

Vanessa Michael Munroe is back in the follow-up to her debut performance in The Informationist, which I reviewed in December of last year. The mission she is hired for this time is to rescue a child from a cult and return her to her parents. Michael, as she is known, travels to Argentina, last known location for the girl, and sets about…

By Steve Sherwood

Texas Review Press, 214 pgs

1-881515-68-0

Rating: 3.75

Hardwater has so much going on it can be difficult to keep track. In this case, that's not a bad thing. Peter Hoback is a newspaper editor in Hardwater, Wyoming, a small town that has seen better times, before the uranium mines closed. Pete fled Denver for Hardwater with his son Bart following the violent death of his wife at the hands of a psychopath. And wouldn't you know…

The Rosebush Murders by Ruth Shidlo – Book Review

The Thorny World Of Humanity

Danielle Hall is found dead in the peaceful grounds of an inner city park in Jerusalem.  She had been shot in the back of the head.  Investigation soon reveals that Danielle was a psychologist.  Could it be that a client has lost their cool?  Danielle was married to Mira Morenica and they have a daughter Shelia.  How will the family cope with this sudden…

About Independence Day:

It’s crazy the things family’s get into, even a nice non-dysfunctional crime family. Sometimes legacies can be more then we bargain for. A work of flash fiction.

How to Purchase Independence Day:

Independence Day is…

About Hearts Made of Stone:

Breaking up is hard to do. So why not get someone else to do it for you? Better still, why not capitalize on romantic failure and turn it into a profitable business?

That’s the plan Aaron Felting and Dana Larson hatch over tea and cookies after meeting in San Francisco’s…

About Lost in Clover:

Welcome to Clover, Kansas, a small town sitting in the middle of America’s Heartland. It’s a peaceful community, until the night that high school student Jeremy Rogers accepts an invitation to party with the “cool” older kids. After things go irreparably wrong, and Clover is thrust…