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April 4, 2019
Q & A #74 – Rachel Howzell Hall, “They All Fall Down”
Rachel Howzell Hall’s new standalone, They All Fall Down, launches on April 9. After four books featuring L.A. homicide detective Elouise “Lou” Norton, fans of Hall’s work are in for something new and different. I believe Hall’s work stands right alongside Michael … Continue reading →
March 25, 2019
Lori Rader-Day, “Under A Dark Sky”
When Eden Wallace arrives at the Straits Point International Dark Sky Park in northern Michigan, she is deeply confused. She is expecting solitude. She is expecting that the reservation, made months ago by her husband before he died, would be … Continue reading →
March 17, 2019
Brian Kaufman, “The Fat Lady’s Low, Sad Song”
Is there a better setting for hopes and dreams than a baseball diamond? Probably not. Brian Kaufman exploits the sport to great effect in The Fat Lady’s Low, Sad Song. The title will tell you where this one is headed … Continue reading →
March 11, 2019
Q & A #73 – Wendy J. Fox, “If the Ice Had Held”
Wendy J. Fox’s new novel If the Ice Had Held launches on May 1. I’ve been a fan of Wendy’s work since reading the first sentence of the first short story, “Apricots,” in her collection The Seven Stages of Anger. … Continue reading →
March 3, 2019
Ausma Zehanat Khan, “A Deadly Divide”
Senseless. When he confessed to killing six people and injured nineteen others in an attack on a Quebec City mosque in 2017, Alexandre Bissonnette said: “I do not know how I committed such a senseless act.” Yet Bissonnette, as Ausma … Continue reading →
February 27, 2019
Kick Butt, You Say?
Some background on the development of the Allison Coil character. A guest post over at Chicks on the Case. Here. Advertisements
February 21, 2019
Walter Mosley, “Down the River unto the Sea”
Cue the mournful saxophone. Sink down into Walter Mosley’s boiled-clean prose. And get to know a new protagonist in Mosley’s ever-growing stable, former New York cop turned private detective Joe King Oliver. Yes, the cop-turned-P.I. bit is an old one … Continue reading →
February 3, 2019
Chad Harbach, “The Art of Fielding”
As baseball novels go, this isn’t one. The Art of Fielding starts with baseball and ends with baseball but by the time the novel wraps up, 512 pages later, we are asked to care about a wide cast of characters … Continue reading →
February 1, 2019
Phil Knight, “Shoe Dog”
Shoe Dog has its feet on the ground. (Sorry; couldn’t resist.) This memoir by the guy who started global megabrand Nike is clear-eyed, frank, and compelling. Once you get rolling, you’ll want to go for the long run—and it’s an … Continue reading →
January 15, 2019
Bob Tewksbury, “Ninety Percent Mental”
Ninety Percent Mental takes its title from the old Yogi Berra quip “Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.” Tewksbury (with baseball writer Scott Millre) makes a convincing case that Berra was right. It’s hard to imagine … Continue reading →
