Crime Time Review: OREGON HILL by Howard Owen

Crime Time : OREGON HILL – Howard Owen: Just because i t does n't take long to figure out whodunnit and whydunnit doesn't mean we can't call Oregon Hill a mystery....

Crime Time : THE SINGING MASONS – Francis Vivian

Crime Time : THE SINGING MASONS – Francis Vivian: I will remember the stuff about bees in The Singing Masons long after I've forgotten the plot and the human characters and the name o...

Crime Time : LAST BUS TO WOODSTOCK – Colin Dexter

Crime Time : LAST BUS TO WOODSTOCK – Colin Dexter: After a fitful ride on Last Bus to Woodstock I doubt I shall read anything more by Colin Dexter. Ever again. I can't remember w...

Crime Time : GENTLY DOES IT – Alan Hunter

Crime Time : GENTLY DOES IT – Alan Hunter: Despite recommendations from friends, I put off awhile reading Inspector George Gently mysteries because I had trouble imagining a co...

Crime Time : WOLVES EAT DOGS – Martin Cruz Smith

Crime Time : WOLVES EAT DOGS – Martin Cruz Smith: Wolves Eat Dogs starts out normally enough for Arkady Renko, Moscow's ace homicide investigator. Assigned by Zurin, the sleazy loc...

Crime Time : I BRING SORROW – Patricia Abbott

Crime Time : I BRING SORROW – Patricia Abbott: "Coal." Back in the day, when I worked for a small daily newspaper, "Coal," as the first sentence of a news stor...

Crime Time : DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS – Walter Mosley

Crime Time : DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS – Walter Mosley: Often after the end of a novel on Kindle, there's a teaser for another work by the author. I ordinarily avoid reading the teaser be...

Crime Time Review: WHISTLE – James Jones

Crime Time : WHISTLE – James Jones: It took me almost twice as long to read James Jones's WWII trilogy as it took him to write it. I was about ten years late when the firs...