Fiction Reviews Archive

The Road to Ruin
by Donald E. Westlake
Mysterious Press
ISBN: 0-8929-6801-X

It's been a long two-year wait for this new caper that features the famous John Dortmunder...[more]

Firestorm
by Iris Johansen
Bantam
ISBN: 0-5538-0340-9

Kerry Murphy is an arson investigator. She and her evidence-sniffing dog, Sam, work together and they have a unique talent for finding the origins of suspicious fires...[more]

Bad Business
by Robert B. Parker
Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN: 0-3991-5145-1

It is always a joy to receive a new Spenser tale. One a year during the first hints of spring Parker brings out a new adventure of this popular detective...[more]

Codex
by Lev Grossman
Harcourt
ISBN: 0-1510-1066-8

The author, Lev Grossman is a book critic for Time magazine. He has created a tale that is hard to pinpoint the style...[more]

Morgue Mama: The Cross Kisses Back
by C. R. Corwin
Poisoned Pen Press
ISBN: 1-5905-8074-5

Dolly Madison Sprowls has been in charge of the morgue library for some 40 years...[more]

Perfect Sax
by Jerrilyn Farmer
William Morrow
ISBN: 0-3809-7890-3

Welcome to another Madelyn Bean mystery. Mad Bean is what she is called...[more]

The Cat Who Talked Turkey
by Lilian Jackson Braun
Putnam Adult
ISBN: 0-3991-5107-9

I loved the cats, but I really have kind of taken a dislike to their dandified owner...[more]

Lionboy
by Zizou Corder
Dial
ISBN: 0-8037-2982-0

This is an odd little tale for younger readers that has a surprise at the end, it's "to be continued...[more]

The Second Chair
by John T. Lescroart
Dutton Books
ISBN: 0-5259-4775-2

Remember Dismas Hardy? He is the San Francisco detective who is very family-oriented and has some really good friends in the Police Department...[more]

Summer of the Big Bachi
by Naomi Hirahara
Delta
ISBN: 0-3853-3759-0

The term "Bachi" is something like the Golden Rule...[more]

Empress Orchid
by Anchee Min
Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 0-6180-6887-2

This mystery takes us back to an ancient time in China. It is the period of the Forbidden City in the last days of its imperial fame and glory...[more]

The Zero Game
by Brad Meltzer
Warner Books
ISBN: 0-4465-3098-0

Tight, exciting and an altogether delightful read, especially if you like a touch of intelligence in your mysteries...[more]

Casino to Die For: The Hunt for Tears of the Sun
by Lani Robson Remender, Mary T. Hoiness
Coronet Publishing
ISBN: 0-9745-7630-1

Lani Robson and Mary Hoiness are two former teachers who collaborated to produce this interesting mystery...[more]

Blacklist: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
by Sara Paretsky
Putnam Adult
ISBN: 0-3991-5085-4

Paretsky's popular detective returns to us with a lot of problems to solve...[more]

The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens
by John Rechy
Grove Press
ISBN: 0-8021-1746-5

Are you up for a captivating and witty tale? Come and meet a hero whose life and adventures takes us across the state of Texas on into Las Vegas...[more]

Blinded
by Stephen White
Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0-3853-3620-9

Here we have another good spin into the psychology profession...[more]

The Sinner
by Tess Gerritsen
Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0-345-45891-5

The scene is the cold halls and rooms of typical New England winter house...[more]

Blindside: An FBI Thriller
by Catherine Coulter
G. P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN: 0-399-15056-0

Fifty-four novels to date and Catherine Coulter still going strong...[more]

Stone Cold: A Jesse Stone Novel
by Robert B. Parker
Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN: 0-399-15087-0

Robert B. Parker just can't stop creating new characters. We first met Police Chief Jesse Stone in the book "Death in Paradise...[more]

Alice in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll, Ralph Steadman
Firefly Books Ltd
ISBN: 1-55297-754-4

This is a special edition of the classic children's book. Alice does all the same things as the story is and always told to us by famous author Lewis Carroll...[more]