This post is subject to my disclosure notes, which you can find here.I’ m not normally a huge fan of first novels. LIVING PROOF by Kira Peikoff is, however, a huge exception. It is an exceptional story, and one that happens to concern a topic about which...
Tony Hill is as fascinating a psychologist as you’ll ever want to meet. His almost supernatural ability to get into the heads of criminals belies his kind heart and complex past. As a rule, I’m not a crier when I’m reading, but some of the scenes...
I discovered Val McDermid’s books on the small screen, via the excellent ITV series Wire in the Blood. I can’t imagine a better actor to play Tony Hill than Robson Green, and when I started reading the books, Tony quickly became one of my favorite series characters....
This week on Dead Guy, I’m talking about books that fall into the Atlantic Ocean, never making it to American shores…and some that make it, but need more readers!
THE WHISPERER has been knocking around for quite a few years now, having been published in “nearly twenty countries” and transited into a bunch of languages from its original Italian. I’ll freely admit that its global success was no small part of why I was keen to...
DEFENDING JACOB is what publishers call a “lead title,” which basically means they’re putting a whole bunch of effort into promoting the book. At Bouchercon in St. Louis, you couldn’t spit without hitting a copy (not that I was spitting). Lots of respectable authors,...
I read THE END OF EVERYTHING months ago, and immediately began talking about it to anyone who would listen. I was lucky enough to meet Megan Abbott at Bouchercon in St. Louis, and I’m happy to report that she is as a wonderful a person as her books would have you hope...
I’m a big fan of the TV series Justified. It’s one of my current and all-time favorites. Right up there with ER. I’m also a fan of many of Elmore Leonard’s books. Somehow, though, I had managed to not read any of his stories that created the characters who populate...
