The Risen by Ron Rash
★★★★★ Ron Rash is a premier American writer of contemporary fiction. Do not be deceived by the setting of his work and limit him to being just a Southern, or more particularly, just an...
Category: Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze
★★★★★ It is a slippery task to evaluate the quality of a work that is so deeply embedded in its own genre. B-movies, guilty pleasures, perfect pop songs, that “so-bad-it’s-good” accolade that countless genre...
Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt
★★★★☆ The strange present-day timeline of Samantha Hunt’s ghostly novel Mr. Splitfoot feels almost like a dystopian fantasy from a bygone era, the inconceivable future of smartphones and disconnection into which we all actually...
The Searcher by Simon Toyne
★★★★☆ In Toyne’s The Searcher, mysterious stranger walks toward town. He has no memory of anything but the road. Wearing a bespoke suit, he is barefooted as he walks then runs away from the...
House of the Rising Sun by James Lee Burke
★★★★★ “There is a house in New Orleans / They call the Rising Sun / And it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy / And, God, I know I’m one.” – The...
A Banquet of Consequences by Elizabeth George
★★★★☆ All police procedurals are the same at core. Each has a setting, a crime, police, obstacles, and a resolution. The difference lies in how the best authors make these elements hang together. A...
So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighborhood by Patrick Modiano
★★★☆☆ 2014 Nobel Prizewinner Patrick Modiano’s So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighborhood is a curious novella that subverts the noir genre with a story more about narrative and memory than any specific...
Manhattan Mayhem: New Crime Stories from Mystery Writers of America
All you need to know is the names of the writers in order to realize that Manhattan Mayhem will be one of your favorite collections of mystery short stories. Mary Higgins Clark, the doyenne...
The Unloved by Deborah Levy
The Unloved is a murder mystery with a difference. The “who dunnit” is a mystery wrapped within an enigma; however, the narrative adds to the complications for it is certainly not straightforward. The setting...
