Two Heads Are Deader Than One by Elena Hartwell
Eddie Shoes is surrounded by a bit of chaos in the opening pages of Two Heads Are Deader Than One. Her ex-boyfriend, homicide detective Chance Parker, has recently moved back to Bellingham, Washington near Shoes. Her mentor Benjamin Cooper recently passed away. And to top…
Interview: Vaseem Khan
If you like your crime with a touch of spice – literally – then Vaseem Khan’s Baby Ganesh Agency series, featuring Inspector Chopra and his little elephant Ganesha, should fit the bill. Book three, The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star, goes behind the glamour…
Fallout
Written by Sara Paretsky — Some crime series stretch themselves too thinly, eventually petering out, plots so transparent you can see the joins a mile away. That’s not the case here. In Fallout, Sara Paretsky and VI Warshawsky have reached book 18 and there’s no sign that the…
The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star
Written by Vaseem Khan — Feast your eyes on what is possibly the prettiest book cover of the year! It has no dust jacket and features a clapperboard, film reel and a baby elephant – and all three have very important parts to play in this,…
The Wrong Goodbye
Written by Chris F Holm — Chris Holm comes with some serious pedigree as a short story writer. Nominated for the Anthony and Derringer Awards, and winner of the Spinetingler in 2008, his stories have appeared in numerous on-line and print anthologies including The Best…
A Game of Ghosts
Written by John Connolly – Charlie Parker is back. He is hired by the FBI’s Special Agent-in-Charge Edgar Ross to find the private investigator Jaycob Eklund. Ross is a slippery fish and neither man trusts each other. Eklund is in the wind but Ross is…
Swann's Way Out
Detective Swann is solicited during a poker game to track down Rusty Jacobs a guy who’s run off with a million bucks in Charles Salzburg’s latest. The detective doesn’t want to do it, but a $1000 a day is too much to turn down and…