The Impressive Debut of Bruce DeSilva

Posted by on June 15, 2011

Rogue Island

The neighborhood of Mount Hope in Providence, Rhode Island has taken a deadly beating with nine house fires in three months leaving five dead. There doesn’t seem to be any obvious connection between the fires, and there are a multitude of suspects from the mob to a possible firebug. Worse yet, the investigators are completely incompetent

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Edgar Awards: Young Adult Books

Posted by on May 9, 2011

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The Mystery Writers of America organization has announced the winners of the Edgar Awards for outstanding mystery books. You can see the winners and nominees in all catagories here.

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Book Review: The Kneebone Boy

Posted by on May 4, 2011

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Life has not gone smoothly for Otto, Lucia, and Max Hardscrabble. Their mother mysteriously disappeared five years ago and the gossipy people in their small town viciously blame the kids and their father.

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The Holy Thief

Posted by on February 2, 2011

Arrests are made in the middle of the night and the fear is palatable in Moscow, 1936. The Stalinist purges have begun and the wrong word or gesture could send someone to the Zone. When an American citizen is found tortured and murdered in a former church, Captain Alexei Dmitriyevich Korolev of the Criminal Investigation [...]

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A Mystery Series by Cassandra Chan

Posted by on January 19, 2011

They are an unlikely team. Phillip Bethancourt is part of the rich jet set with a model girlfriend, and Sergeant Jack Gibbons is a rising star in Scotland Yard but is solidly middle class and doesn’t have much luck with the ladies. Though seemingly very different the men share one passion – murder. In the The [...]

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The Conor Bard Mystery Series

Posted by on January 5, 2011

One minute Conor Bard is a guitar playing rocker performing in a bar and the next moment he’s a cop with a pulled gun arresting a wanted killer from the crowd of spectators. It might sound unusual to be a rocker and a cop, but Conor is anything but typical. After the body of a [...]

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Linda Castillo’s Pray for Silence

Posted by on December 15, 2010

Early in the morning when the cows are ready to be milked, a gruesome discovery is made: an entire family was brutally murdered. The scene is shocking and violent but what is more puzzling is that it was an Amish family in rural Ohio who didn’t seem to have any enemies. Police Chief Kate Burkholder [...]

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