BOOK REVIEW: FOUR TRUE CRIME HISTORIES BY THE KENT STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS TRUE CRIME HISTORY SERIES

THE UNCOMMON CASE OF DANIEL BROWN HOW A WHITE POLICE OFFICER WAS CONVICTED OF KILLING A BLACK CITIZEN, BALTIMORE, 1875 By Gordon H. Shufelt Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2021. $24.95 COLD WAR SECRETS A VANISHED PROFESSOR, A SUSPECTED KILLER, AND HOOVER’S FBI By Eileen Welsome Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2021. $24.95 […]

BOOK REVIEW: BASIL’S WAR, FINDING TESSA, THE LAST COMMANDMENT

BASIL’S WAR A WWII SPY THRILLER By Stephen Hunter New York: Mysterious Press, 2021. $23.95 FINDING TESSA By Jaime Lynn Hendricks New York: Scarlet, 2021. $25.95 THE LAST COMMANDMENT By Scott Shepherd New York: Mysterious Press, 2021. $25.95 These three new books from Mysterious Press and Scarlet, offer three different approaches to the thriller—a wartime […]

BOOK REVIEW: AGATHA CHRISTIE’S GOLDEN AGE – VOLUME II: MISS MARPLE AND THE OTHER GOLDEN AGE PUZZLES

AGATHA CHRISTIE’S GOLDEN AGE, VOLUME II: MISS MARPLE AND THE OTHER GOLDEN AGE PUZZLES By John Goddard Wimbledon, UK: Stylish Eye Press, 2021. $68.99 ($18.99 paperback) A little more than two years ago, I reviewed John Goddard’s terrific book Agatha Christie’s Golden Age: An Analysis of Poirot’s Golden Age Puzzles (2018). It’s a fantastic, thoughtful […]