Reviews

“Scorcher” Kennedy, top detective in Dublin’s Murder Squad, has been assigned a high priority, high profile case.  His bright and innovative partner is a rookie to the squad and eager to prove he is worthy.  Broken Harbor, now known as Brainstown, is a housing development hit hard by the recession.  Most of the half-built new homes have been abandoned with onl

The setting is Stoneham, N. H., where bookstores line the street.

Stuck on Nothing is the debut album by Philadelphia-based rock band, Free Energy. Free Energy is Scott Wells, Paul Sprangers, Evan Wells, Nicholas Shuminsky, and Sheridan Fox. According to Wikipedia, Free Energy falls into the category of power pop.

When I finally meet Laura Moriarty, I’m going to complain to her about my elbow.  Ever since reading her latest novel, The Chaperone, I’ve got an acute case of reader’s elbow—pain and numbness in an elbow that has been bent holding a book in the same position all night when it’s too g

I’m not a usual reader of mystery thrillers, but when a patron raved about Defending Jacob I gave it a try.  A start is all you need to get hooked.   The writing is fast-paced in that hard-boiled detective style.  But Andy Barber isn’t a detective, he’s the d

What do a cryptologist, patent lawyer, artist, writer, chemist, math teacher, and their waiter do when they get together? Why solve mysteries of course! At least, that is what they do in the mind and imagination of Isaac Asimov in his Black Widowers short stories. Each month this group gets together for dinner.

Fireproof picks up with Maggie O’Dell where we left off in Hotwire, the last Maggie O’Dell novel by Kava.  Maggie is recovering from her ordeal and the injuries from her last case in the Nebraska Sandhills as well as from her unreasonable and politically motivated boss.  Now a serial arsonist is burning warehouses in Washington D.C.

It’s been awhile since I first started reading Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files series, at least ten years and thirteen books ago. I recently came across the first book in the series, Storm Front, and decided to reread it. I’m glad I did.

DC Comics made a controversial move last year by ending all of their comics, rebooting the popular (but increasingly crowded and convoluted) DC universe, and starting their titles over at #1. Although their sales have been good, many long-time fans—including me—complained and chastised DC for doing this.