Tag Archives: detective fiction

Loren D. Estleman’s City Walls

Posted on 14th April 2023 by Warner Holme

Loren D. Estleman’s City Walls is the 31st in the Amos Walker Mystery series. With a long running crime series and an old hand at writing, the plot is far more new than the detective. This book finds the Michigan … Continue reading →

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Jodi Taylor’s Doing Time (The Time Police #1)

Posted on 1st February 2023 by Lis Carey

The invention of time travel led to the Time Wars, which led to the Time Police, who solve problems by ruthless, thorough, application of force. Stop the illegal time travelers, bring home for prosecution any who are unaccountably still alive, … Continue reading →

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James Lee Burke’s The Tin Roof Blowdown

Posted on 30th May 2022 by David Kidney

James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux novels have been a source of entertainment and excitement to me for many years. Burke has been particularly prolific in recent years (he even created a new series featuring Billy Bob Holland) and The Tin … Continue reading →

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James Lee Burke’s Pegasus Descending

Posted on 30th May 2022 by David Kidney

James Lee Burke lives in two places, and he writes about them both. He has a home in Montana (where he has set his Billy Bob Holland series) and another in New Iberia, Louisiana. Pegasus Descending is the latest in … Continue reading →

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James Lee Burke’s Purple Cane Road

Posted on 30th May 2022 by David Kidney

Dave Robicheaux is a middle-aged guy, trying to get along. Still haunted by his experiences in Viet Nam, troubled by his relationship with his long-dead parents, he is now a homicide detective in New Iberia Parish in Louisiana. His second … Continue reading →

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Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele’s The Surrogates: Flesh and Bone

Posted on 24th February 2017 by Robert

Flesh and Bone is a prequel to The Surrogates, taking the story back fifteen years to the anti-surrogate riots of 2039. The incident that sparks the crisis is the beating death of a derelict by three teenagers who are using … Continue reading →

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Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele’s The Surrogates

Posted on 24th February 2017 by Robert

Robert Venditti’s The Surrogates, drawn by Brett Weldele, is right up among the top graphic works I’ve run across recently. Set in a near-future megalopolis, it’s a fast-moving crime drama with a couple of unique twists. The central motivator in … Continue reading →

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Steven Brust’s Jhegaala

Posted on 11th June 2016 by Robert

One reaches a point in any fantasy series where one wonders if the author has anything left to say. Too many of them don’t and the series peters out into another ongoing and often lame effort to feed the fans. … Continue reading →

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Steven Brust’s Iorich

Posted on 11th June 2016 by Robert

I’ve noted before how Steven Brust manages to keep an ongoing series alive by the simple expedient of presenting the protagonist with new challenges in each volume. In Iorich, the latest installment of The Taltos Cycle, he’s presented Vlad Taltos … Continue reading →

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Glen Cook’s A Matter of Time

Posted on 26th June 2011 by Robert
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