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.
Rating: 3 stars
Summary:
Junior Bender is asked by a local aging mobster to get his stolen investment back from a local rock concert tour made of past rock star's. Bender must also entertain his teen daughter and delves into his career while teaching the expert burglar trade to her.
Comments: Plenty of woke references to plot the book to be sure Hallinan shows his bonafides to the readers that need such reference to there reading. Bender never really gets to use his skills, but suddenly becomes and investigator.
Rating: 4 stars
Prolific Minnesota crime writer brings back Rushmore McKenzie surviving a almost fatal shooting. Now recovered he is bored and his long time partner asks him to look into a the death of a friends very rich grandmother. Although it seems straightforward McKenzie finds otherwise.
Comments: A nifty crime novel with a very Agatha Christie style ending. Housewright does Minnesota crime writing a great service.
Rating: Starred Review
Summary: A twin sister living a quiet safe and prepared life in London is called by her parents that her twin sister is dead in New York City. She rushes to New York to console her parents and grieve her awful murder.
Comments: Dean is amazing suspense writer. Never saw a major twist coming and the pages flip almost by themselves. Totally absorbing and shocking. Must read novel of the year.
Rating: Starred Review
Summary: A small town in the outback of Australia is fractured when a young girl on her way home from school with her best friend goes missing. The investigation centers around a group of families interwoven and told from different character point of view.
Comments: A brilliant crime novel that goes bleak and dark with horrible consequences. It a no win crime novel told from various characters with a nifty ending told from the characters. Highly recommend for those who have read those great out Outback crime novels.
Rating: Stared Review
Summary: Successful writer Aaron Holland Broussard is tangled in emotion of the sudden lose of his daughter. He is haunted by her ghost. When he has his barn door painted with a swastika it sets in motion events that will expose the drug culture on Montana.
Comments: Lots of ghost and goblins. Equal part ghost story and crime novel. Do you talk to the dead?
Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A teen boy who witnessed his father commit suicide with a shotgun starts to question his father death. The path leads him to many family secrets and his own downfall.
Comments: A peel the onion back suspense novel that has some serious shocks to the system. A very compelling read. Highly recommend.
