Buy it!: Click Here! Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Pages:384 pages Author website: GeorgePelecanos.com The Night Gardener is the best novel of the year. This is what crime fiction is all about, human, dark, with glimpses of hope and real joy and sadness. Pelecanos has risen to the top of the class following the classic … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!PUBLISHER: Tor BooksPAGES: 352AUTHOR WEBSITE: www.aleemartinez.com A. Lee Martinez is going to be a great writer. He had a confident debut with Gil’s All Fright Diner which had great dialogue, a fun plot, and had new things to say in the horror and buddy action genre. It mixed zombie hunting … Continue reading
Barry Eisler, if he so chose, could probably kill me in a dozen different ways. He’s had a multitude of different careers ranging from the spy section of the CIA to Silicon Valley, and his latest is as a novelist of the brilliant John Rain series. Rain is an assassin who is incredibly paranoid and … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!PUBLISHER: William MorrowPAGES: 432AUTHOR WEBSITE: www.WilliamLashner.com If you had told me two years ago that one of my favorite series would be about a lawyer, I would have laughed in your face. Years before Alan Shore was created, William Lashner created a Jewish lawyer named Victor Carl who only wants … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!PUBLISHER: Dutton AdultPAGES: 256AUTHOR WEBSITE: www.JeffShelby.com The worst thing a crime novel can do is be boring. "Can I just pick ’em off," Carter asked. "One by one?" "That would probably be Plan Z." "What’s Plan A?" "We lie here and see what happens." He glanced at me. "You are … Continue reading
Publisher:Viking Adult Pages: 400 Author Website: WWW.THURSDAYNEXT.COM Buy it!: Amazon.com: The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime: Books: Jasper Fforde I love it when dumb but crazy ideas work. The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde is a big step-up and down from the first book, The Big Over Easy, in the series last year. It was … Continue reading
A. Lee Martinez is a great writer. Funny novels are hard to write, Gil’s All Fright Diner is warm and thoughtful and makes you care about even the most minor of characters(I defy you not to like the sheriff). His dialogue crackles and the places feel real, and the characters all have their own voice … Continue reading