Lovesick by Spencer Seidel is a thoroughly gripping tale that begins with teenager Paul Ducharme being found kneeling over the dead body of his friend, Lee Janis. Initially, Paul cannot remember how he got there, and no one seems to know where Wendy Trower, Lee’s girlfriend and Paul’s friend and love interest, has disappeared to….
Category Archives: Mystery/Suspense
Gun Games
Gun Games is the twentieth title in the Decker/Lazarus series by best-selling author Faye Kellerman. Peter Decker is an LAPD detective whose wife, Rina Lazarus, often ends up solving cases with him. They are also Orthodox Jews, with Peter having returned to his Jewish roots after meeting Rina. Although I have read a few of…
The Starlite Drive-in
The discovery of human remains at the old Starlite Drive-In theatre brings up in razor-sharp detail the events of the summer of 1956 for Callie Anne Benton. The drive-in bounded her world and that of her parents—her father managed the place, out in the country several miles from the nearest town, and her mother, suffering…
The Confession
When a dying man walks into Ian Rutledge’s office at Scotland Yard and announces he wants to confess to a murder committed 5 years earlier, during the first World War, Rutledge is unconvinced. The story is lacking in details, for one, and there’s no body or missing person report. Rutledge is curious enough to begin…
The Invisible Ones
Ray Lovell wakes up in a hospital bed, half-paralyzed, barely able to speak, and delusional to boot. Fragmentary memories haunt him. Tests show he’s been poisoned, but by whom and when? As his memory begins to return, he knows he was hired by a Romany (formerly called Gypsy) man to find his daughter, Rose Janko,…
The Queen
The Queen is the fifth in a gripping series of thrillers by author and storyteller Steven James. The Bowers Files, as the series is known, features Patrick Bowers, an FBI agent specializing in geographic profiling. Several of the other books in this series have been reviewed here, including The Bishop and The Knight. In The…
The Legacy
Erica and Beth Calcott have returned to Storton Manor, a house they’ve inherited from their grandmother Meredith, a woman who was cold and unloving. Beth is severely depressed and recovering from a suicide attempt. Erica believes Beth’s depression began when their cousin Henry disappeared when they were children, and is determined to recover the repressed…
A Double Death on the Black Isle
The small Highland town of Black Isle is rocked when a Molotov cocktail is thrown onto a fishing boat. The photographer for the local paper, an awkward lad with bright red hair, has a picture with a small figure fleeing the scene, but it doesn’t occur to him what he’s got until weeks later, by…
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