Mystery Fanfare: NGAIO MARSH AWARDS FINALISTS

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The Rap Sheet: Let Us Now Extol the Marsh-Seekers

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Crime Watch: Review: CITY OF VENGEANCE by DV Bishop

Crime Watch: Review: CITY OF VENGEANCE: CITY OF VENGEANCE by DV Bishop (Pan MacMillan, 2021) Reviewed by Craig Sisterson Florence. Winter, 1536. A prominent Jewish moneylender is m...

Crime Watch: Review: CITY OF VENGEANCE by DV Bishop

Crime Watch: Review: CITY OF VENGEANCE: CITY OF VENGEANCE by DV Bishop (Pan MacMillan, 2021) Reviewed by Craig Sisterson Florence. Winter, 1536. A prominent Jewish moneylender is m...

Crime Watch: Review: BOUND by Vanda Symon

Crime Watch: Review: BOUND: BOUND by Vanda Symon (Orenda Books, 2021) Reviewed by Craig Sisterson The New Zealand city of Dunedin is rocked when a wealthy and apparentl...

Crime Watch Review: CEMETERY ROAD by Greg Iles

Crime Watch: Review: CEMETERY ROAD: CEMETERY ROAD by Greg Iles (HarperCollins, 2019) Reviewed by Craig Sisterson Marshall McEwan is one of the most successful journalists in Wa...

Crime Watch Review: THE SECRET SEVEN - THE MYSTERY OF THE SKULL by Pamela Butchart

Crime Watch: Review: THE SECRET SEVEN - THE MYSTERY OF THE SKULL: THE SECRET SEVEN: MYSTERY OF THE SKULL by Pamela Butchart (Hodder Children's Books, 2018) Reviewed by  Solve the mystery ...Craig Sisterson

Crime Watch Review: AUGUST SNOW by Stephen Mack Jones --AUDIO VERSION

Crime Watch: Review: AUGUST SNOW: AUGUST SNOW by Stephen Mack Jones (Soho Press, 2017, Recorded Books, 2020), narrated by Luis Moreno Reviewed by Craig Sisterson August Snow,...

Crime Watch Review: WINTER COUNTS by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

Crime Watch: Review: WINTER COUNTS: WINTER COUNTS by David Heska Wanbli Weiden (Ecco, 2020) Reviewed by Craig Sisterson Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebu...

Crime Watch Review: CARI MORA by Thomas Harris

Crime Watch: Review: CARI MORA: CARI MORA by Thomas Harris (William Heinemann, 2019) Reviewed by Craig Sisterson Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden bene...

Crime Watch Review: WORST CASE SCENARIO by Helen Fitzgerald

Crime Watch: Review: WORST CASE SCENARIO: WORST CASE SCENARIO by Helen Fitzgerald (Orenda Books, 2019) Reviewed by Craig Sisterson Mary Shields is a moody, acerbic probation offer, d...

Crime Watch Review: MURDER SEES THE LIGHT by Howard Engel

Crime Watch: Review: MURDER SEES THE LIGHT: MURDER SEES THE LIGHT by Howard Engel (Penguin, 1985) Reviewed by Craig Sisterson Canadian P.I. Benny Cooperman (Murder On Location, etc.) t...

Crime Watch Review: POLICE AT THE STATION AND THEY DON'T LOOK FRIENDLY by Adrian McKinty

Crime Watch: Review: POLICE AT THE STATION AND THEY DON'T LOOK ...: POLICE AT THE STATION AND THEY DON'T LOOK FRIENDLY by Adrian McKinty, narrated by Gerard Doyle (Blackstone Audio, 2017) Reviewed by Crai...

Crime Watch Review: SHIVER by Allie Reynolds

Crime Watch: Review: SHIVER: SHIVER by Allie Reynolds (Headline, 2021) Reviewed by Craig Sisterson When Milla is invited to a reunion in the French Alps resort that saw ...

Crime Watch Review: THE DEATH HOUSE by Sarah Pinborough

Crime Watch: Review: THE DEATH HOUSE: THE DEATH HOUSE by Sarah Pinborough (HarperCollins, 2017) Reviewed by Craig Sisterson Toby's life was perfectly normal... until it was...

Crime Watch Review: THE RIDGE by Michael Koryta

Crime Watch: Review: THE RIDGE: THE RIDGE by Michael Koryta (Little, Brown, 2011) Reviewed by Craig Sisterson In an isolated stretch of eastern Kentucky, on a hilltop known...

Crime Watch Review: RED SNOW by Will Dean

Crime Watch: Review: RED SNOW: RED SNOW by Will Dean (Point Blank Books, 2019) Reviewed by Craig Sisterson TWO BODIES.  One suicide. One cold-blooded murder. Are the...

Crime Watch Review: SNAKE ISLAND by Ben Hobson

Crime Watch: Review: SNAKE ISLAND: Review: SNAKE ISLAND by Ben Hobson (Allen & Unwin, 2019) Reviewed by Craig Sisterson Vernon and Penelope Moore never want to see their s...

Crime Watch Review: LIGHT SEEKERS by Femi Kayode

Crime Watch: Review: LIGHT SEEKERS: LIGHTSEEKERS by Femi Kayode (Bloomsbury Raven, 2021) Reviewed by Craig Sisterson Three young students are brutally murdered in a Nigerian un...

Crime Watch: Review: CROCODILE TEARS by Mercedes Rosende, translated by Tim Gutteridge

Crime Watch: Review: CROCODILE TEARS: CROCODILE TEARS by Mercedes Rosende, translated by Tim Gutteridge (Bitter Lemon, 2021) Reviewed by Craig Sisterson The setting: Montevideo’s...