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Crime Fiction: All In?… Beware the Cross Currents by Rob Hilliard

October 27, 2020 admin 0

Thoroughbred horse racing expert Rob Hilliard’s second novel set against that backdrop, All In?… Beware the Cross Currents, once again follows the exploits of former two-time Kentucky Governor Bentley Wellington, coal baroness Abigail Prescott Wellington and their son, Beauregard, operator of Lexington-based Triple-B Racing Stables. As 1983 unfolds, vulnerabilities of the Commonwealth’s first family are at work as Kentucky’s alcohol of choice, the sport of kings and power politics provide the combustible combination that embroils […]

Crime Fiction: Toward a Final Judgment

October 5, 2020 J. Kingston Pierce 0

Every fall, I start to look back more critically at the many books I’ve read over the preceding months, with an eye toward choosing the top-quality crime-fiction releases of that particular year. Although 2020 has—with its pandemic, its lockdowns and social separations, its economic woes, and its destructive deceptions spread by high political officials—been a time we’d prefer to forget, for the most part, it has at least provided diversions in the form of consuming […]

Moon Magic and To Cross the Line by Sandra Jones

September 21, 2020 admin 0

Sandra Jones offers two contrasting treats to readers wanting a trip to distant locales. In Moon Magic she invites readers to join the titular celestial body on a holiday around the rings of Saturn. And in To Cross The Line they go back to 1983 and join an Australian linguist who visits communist Albania and subsequently becomes embroiled in a high-risk espionage operation and an even more exciting romance. As a child, Jones contemplated the face […]

This Just In: IceSpy by Norman Miller

August 19, 2020 admin 0

An astonishing statement comes with a price. Soviet Minister of Sports Delmont Zegnies makes Cold War history when he announces that the Latvian Socialist State will no longer seek Moscow’s approval for its affairs. That costs Zegnies his life—and spins the wheels that drags an American bobsled coach into political trouble in a foreign land. Inspired by what is believed to be the start of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Norman Miller’s IceSpy details […]

Murder and… Makeup?

July 7, 2020 News Editor 0

A popular weekly YouTube show hosted by Los Angeles makeup artist Bailey Sarian has attracted 1.5 million subscribers. What’s the big draw? Despite being an unexpected mix of things, Sarian’s charm, wit and storytelling abilities make each episode feel like a half hour well spent. Every week on Murder, Mystery and Makeup Monday, Sarian talks about a different true crime case… while applying a full and skillful face of makeup. She appears to do extensive […]

Crime Fiction: A Match Made for Murder by Iona Wishaw

July 3, 2020 News Editor 0

Seven books out, Nelson, BC-based protagonist Lane Winslow takes a road trip in A Match Made For Murder. Newlyweds Lane and her new husband Inspector Darling (who got married in book #6: A Deceptive Devotion) have made the big trip to Tucson, Arizona for a bit of a honeymoon and some well deserved R&R. The dream of peace and quiet in the American Southwest is shattered, though, when soon after their arrival a wealthy guest […]

Cathy Ace’s The Wrong Boy Will Be Miniseries

June 16, 2020 News Editor 0

Cathy Ace fans will be delighted to learn that the popular author’s latest novel, The Wrong Boy, has been optioned for television by UK indie Free@Last TV (Agatha Raisin). C21 Media reports that, among new projects the company is embarking on is, “The Wrong Boy, a three-part thriller being adapted from Welsh author Cathy Ace’s novel of the same name. It focusses on a small Welsh hamlet disturbed by the discovery of human remains, and […]

Harlan Coban’s The Woods to Netflix

June 10, 2020 News Editor 0

Harlan Coban fans (and there are a lot of them) should keep their eyes out for a six-part Netflix mini-series based on The Woods, Coban’s 2007 novel, transformed here from New Jersey to Poland. The switch creates some real magic: Coban’s terrific storytelling reimagined here with a gritty European sensibility. “The Woods from Netflix Poland is really different from The Stranger,” Coban told Variety back in February. “Much more atmospheric and moody and centered on […]

Crime Fiction: No Going Back by Sheena Kamal

April 21, 2020 News Editor 0

No Going Back (William Morrow/Zaffre) is the third entry in Sheena Kamal’s bestselling and award-winning series featuring Nora Watts, an outsider who has a talent for seeing what lies beneath strangers’ surfaces, and for knowing what they’re working hard to keep hidden. Somehow, it’s the people closest to her she has trouble truly connecting with. In the case of Bonnie, the teenage daughter Nora gave up for adoption, she has to keep trying. For Bonnie […]

Crime Fiction: The Night Nurse by Tony Berryman

April 11, 2020 News Editor 1

Registered massage therapist and jack of many trades Tony Berryman covers territory familiar to him in his debut novel, The Night Nurse. A lot of the ground we are covering here feels all too familiar at the moment. Nurse Wendy cares far too much about her patients’ pain, and knows a hundred ways to move them beyond it. When the body count rises and suspicions mount, she moves west. Now she’s against the Pacific, and […]