“West Heart Kill” by Dann McDorman (2023)

“This murder mystery, like all murder mysteries, begins with the evocation of what the reader understands to be its atmosphere…”

As I’ve yakked on about on this blog many times, I really love a fresh idea. They say there are only so many stories but, if you ask me, we’re just getting started, and it’s gratifying when a publisher takes a chance on something new, not just rehashes an old idea or snatches hold of the tails of a popular novel. Dann McDorman has taken the murder mystery genre and sm...