I read S.J. Rozan’s most recent novel in January and reviewed it here, where I said, and I quote myself without shame: I do so love me an ending where maybe not everyone gets what they want but everyone who deserves it gets their due. A novel where you get a dozen plots for the…
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There’s a thing editors hammer home to the authors of a new book in a series–Don’t forget the backstory! You never know when someone new to a series will pick up a copy of, oh, say the sixteenth book in a series about a two-person PI agency in New York City, one a Chinese American…
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The twelfth book in the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series and one of the best so far. A fish out of water/stranger in a strange land story, with PI’s Lydia Chin and Bill Smith being hired (sort of) by Lydia’s mother to go to the aid of a relative in Mississippi who has been arrested for…
Read more Every time Captain Pete says “Bless their hearts” you can hear his insincerity from here to the Kremlin.