I have read all of Robert Dugoni‘s legal thrillers and police procedurals, and The Trapped Girl may be the best of them all. The book is the 4th in the series featuring Seattle Homicide Detective Tracy Crosswhite and her A Team of detectives. Mr. Dugoni continues to impress me with his increasingly better writing each time …
From Shelf Awareness June 20, 2017 Matthew Sullivan‘s short stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore (out now from Scribner) is his debut mystery novel. He teaches writing, literature and film at Big Bend Community College in the high desert of Washington State. I became an English major in college …
Karen Reyes is a precocious ten year-old growing up in 1960s Chicago. Her mother is sick, her brother is dodging the draft, and their upstairs neighbor—an enigmatic Holocaust survivor named Anka—was just murdered. As Karen steeps herself in the past and tries to solve Anka’s murder (think Harriet the Spy meets Maus) the life she’s been avoiding continues …
I met James Ziskin at another writer’s bookstore event. I now have Book #1 (Styx & Stone) and Book #4 (Heart of Stone) in the Ellie Stone mysteries. Even if I know an author, I try very hard to be objective when reviewing a book. I am very glad to have met this author. I cannot …
The crime is clear: Roderick Macrae, a young crofter in the Scottish Highlands, murdered three people on a summer’s day in 1869. But the story is less straightforward, layered by Burnet with great precision and intrigue as a series of documents, including Macrae’s own articulate and ostensibly candid confession, that give this invented crime the …
Trouble in Rooster Paradise is a fun mystery set in 1950 Seattle and in 2003 in a Seattle area injury rehab center. 83 year old retired shamus (private detective) Gunnar Nilson is laid up in 2003 in a nursing home with a busted gam (leg). Josephine Tey used a similar gambit in The Daughter of Time, which …
Okay, my only complaint about this series is that Martin Walker does such an amazing job transporting you to the Dordogne region of France that I want to be there drinking wine and sampling the food (cooked by Bruno of course) and not here typing this. Setting that aside, I love these mysteries, you catch Martin Walker’s …
Finally, I got a chance to read Her Final Breath by Robert Dugoni. I had to wait until my wife and her sister read it (they loved it!).This is the second book in a series featuring Seattle Police Detective Tracy Crosswhite and her police teammates. It was worth the wait. Another serial killer is loose …
As has been stated a few times over the years, we [at Seattle Mystery Bookshop] all work so closely together that we start to read the same things to the point where we lack the breadth of knowledge and experience and can only recommend a too-narrow slice of the books here from what we all …
A great German mystery recently discovered through a customer recommendation… It’s a dark novel set in a small town with lots of secrets that come bubbling to the surface when a local man found guilty of murdering two young women returns after having served his time. This is the fourth in the series but I …
