From the monthly archives:

April 2007

HARD RAIN, by Barry Eisler

April 28, 2007

18 Trademark Eisler: Ice cold revenge and firecracker hot sex from a ruthless assassin. Cast the “Lush Life” against the backdrop of the ultrahip Tokyo skyline and it doesn’t get any better than that.
I loved this second installment in the Rain series so much that, before I’d finished the second chapter, I rushed to pick [...]

Read the full article →

DIRTY MARTINI, by JA Konrath

April 22, 2007

17 Another ARC… so I have to be careful about what I say about the upcoming fourth installment of the Jack Daniels thriller series, due in July from Hyperion.
As I mentioned with RUSTY NAIL, JA Konrath has really hit his stride with this series and his comfort with his characters remains evident. On the one [...]

Read the full article →

THIRST, by Pete Larson

April 17, 2007

16 I got this book from the gang at

Read the full article →

SHAME, by Alan Russell

April 14, 2007

15 I loved the premise of this book: Twenty years after a serial killer is executed, new bodies appear with the same markings and all signs point to the long-dead serial killer’s son as the culprit.
Powerful “what-if” there. What’s more is that the true crime writer who made the killer famous joins forces with the [...]

Read the full article →

DEATH IN PRECINCT PUERTO RICO, by Steven Torres

April 3, 2007

14 I recently met Torres online over at Crimespace a couple of weeks after I’d received this book from Dorchester. Having done so, I was eager to start reading DEATH IN PRECINCT PUERTO RICO and I put it at the top of the pile.
It wasn’t my favorite read this year, but it was refreshing to [...]

Read the full article →