Off Rock is a science fiction tale about hidden treasure.  It is set in the year 2778.  Mining companies have moved to a new frontier and have begun extracting minerals from other parts of the galaxy.  While doing some work to prepare a site for closure, Jimmy Vik strikes gold.  Gold that the mining company […]

Fatal Music is the second book featuring the French police captain Paul Durac.  The captain is pulled away from a jazz gig to handle a call.  An elderly woman has been found dead in her hot tub.  It seems to be a simply case of drowning.  To much surprise, it is later determined to be […]

Relics isn’t the sort of book I’d normally read.  It’s a book that involves selling relics from the fantasy world.  Unicorn horns, nymphs, fairies, satyrs – you’ll find them all in this book.  However, since the protagonist in the book was a researcher in the field of criminology, I figured I’d give it a shot […]

Parallel Lines is the story of an unusual bank robbery.  Adam is a desperate man – he’s terminally ill, and he want to make sure there is enough money to care for his special needs son after his death.  Obviously, the solution is to rob a bank.  He sets to work finding out how to maximize the amount […]

The Killing Bay is the second in a series of books set in the Faroe Islands (the first is The Blood Strand.)  The books begins with British detective Jan Reyna recovering from an injury in the Faroes. We find out that Reyna is Faroese, but has been raised in England by relatives.  The book begins […]

Gregory McDonald is known mostly for creating the character of Fletch, made famous in the movies by Chevy Chase. As a kid, I read many of the Fletch novels, so I was happy to review another of McDonald’s books. To be more accurate, Snatch is actually two distinct books (Who Took Toby Rinaldi and Safekeeping) […]

Disclaimer: I received a free copy of In Sunlight or In Shadow for review purposes. I’ll read anything with Lawrence Block’s name associated with it, so when I had the chance to receive a copy of an anthology he edited (and contributed to), I jumped at the chance.  All of the stories in In Sunlight […]