John Howard Reid is a prize winning author and writing contests judge. He has also worked as a publisher, editor, critic and bookseller. As a fiction writer, Reid first achieved fame in England and Australia for a series of detective novels, all featuring a Miami police sergeant named Merryll Manning, who made his debut in […]
Category: mystery
U is for Undertow – Sue Grafton
January 9, 2010
U for Undertow is the 21st book in the alphabet series by Sue Grafton. Kinsey Millhone is a PI in Santa Teresa CA, a small bedroom community. The year is 1988 and Kinsey is hired by Michael Sutton who seems to think her remembers seeing two “pirates” burying a little girl that was kidnapped in […]
Dial Emmy For Murder: A Soap Opera Mystery
July 12, 2009
Author: Eileen Davidson 978-0451228253 Published by Obsidian, a division of Penguin Group From the back of the book:Alexis Peterson’s days are flled with scheming, backstabbing, adultery and murder. She is a soap opera star after all. But a new role has her feeling like she’s in the horror business. Tabloids and fans are stunned when […]
The Spy Who Came for Christmas
January 29, 2009
Author – David MorrellPublisher – Vanguard Press, The Perseus Books GroupNovember 2008 And a child shall lead them5 out of 5 stars David Morrell is an award winning author for his novel First Blood in which the character Rambo was created. He has written other best selling novels such as Extreme Denial, Brotherhood of the […]
Murder in Mykonos – Jeffrey M. Siger
November 10, 2008
Publisher – Poisoned Pen PressEven beautiful places are not exempt from murder4 out of 5 stars Murder in Mykonos is the first novel for author Jeffrey Siger but he is no stranger to Greece and the island of Mykonos. He was a resident for 25 years and is able to translate that knowledge and his […]
It Only Takes a Moment – Mary Jane Clark
November 10, 2008
Publisher – Harper CollinsLife can be turned upside down in a moment4 out of 5 stars Author Mary Jane Clark is back with her latest novel involving Eliza Blake, the host of a morning news show on KEY News. Eliza has lost her husband and it is now just her and her seven-year old daughter, […]