Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A teen boy that is talented football player lives a highly impoverished life in rural Arkansas. A coach looking for a restart to his coaching career aided by his committed family. These two collide with massive violence from the beginning to the final pages.
Comments: A massive achievement of a debut power house novel. Outstanding rural writing with dialect from the source. Highly recommended.
Rating: Starred Review
Summary: A successful father and husband gets caught up in his friend/bosses in many schemes to make money. He also decides to help coach his daughters high school basketball team. Things go down hill fast when the FBI shows up asking questions.
Comments: Len Joy is an expert and gifted storyteller. Masterfull writing.
Rating: 5 stars
Summary A blended new family is on a outback vacation in Melbourne and decides to day trip to a nearby island to see Aussie wild life. When the husband accidentally hit a young deaf woman on a bike, the family takes into their own hands to serve justice.
Comments: A propulsive page suspense filled turner. Some twisty turners and a heroine comes to life.
Rating: Starred Review
Summary: A young man with a very bright future who has done everything right. He attends a high school party that goes wrong and he fleas with friends in the back of a pickup. When another fires a gun at a cop car while in a high speed incident his life is forever changed.
Comments: This might be the novel of the year for crime readers. Thick overwhelming suspense and sadness. Feels very real. Outstanding novel.
Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Two young women with influence are shot in a Malibu Park while camping. Detective Eve Ronin and old timer Duncan Dounuts is dispatched to the park to find the killer. Through a through investigation they determine there is a serial shooter on the loose. Who is it?
Comments: Based on a true story this is a fun page turner for the crime lover in you.
Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Ide recreates the famous Philip Marlowe. Marlowe is asked by a fading actress to look for her missing teenage daughter after the murder of her husband. Things go quickly sideways for Marlowe when he finds the girl and her version of the events at home.
Comments: Ide is fantastic. More please ASAP. The Marlowe creation is as any crime character out there.
Rating: Starred Review
Summary: A young women forced into prostitution and paired up with the mayor of Atlanta where he he shared all his secrets is taken into the Georgia backwoods to be killed. When old geezer Leonard interrupts their plans he takes Maya into his home for safe keeping.
Comments: Farris lays the atmosphere on fire with this graphic crime novel set mostly in the Georgia rural woods. The characters Maya and Leonard are electric. Best novel of 2022 so far. Must read.
