Tag: book-reviews

  • The Dying Light: Forthcoming Ann Cleeves

    With thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan for this preview. The Dying Light, the new Matthew Venn mystery, will be out in early October in Canada and the U.S. A couple of weeks ago Ann Cleeves, Shetland Noir’s patron, appeared at a fun crime fiction festival that’s on my bucket list. Cleeves was discussing her two…

  • Having a Heatwave: Summer Crime Fiction

    It’s too darn hot, as per Cole Porter. The west coast is sweltering, and by 7AM this morning it was already 18 degrees, on its rapid way to 31, the air still and humid. The cat’s thrilled, stalking the scorched front yard grass (under close supervision) as she warms her aged bones; her human companions…

  • Murder at University Park by Cheryl Miller Dellasega

    Murder at University Park is the first mystery novel by American writer (and emerita professor at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine) Cheryl Miller Dellasega. Due out in August, it’s an engaging look at killer campus politics that bogs down occasionally under the weight of the narrator’s domestic and professional ordeals. Many thanks to…