Matt Paust's Crime Time Review: THE SIBERIAN DILEMMA by Martin Cruz Smith

Matt Paust's Crime Time : THE SIBERIAN DILEMMA – Martin Cruz Smith: My fears after reading Arkady Renko’s previous adventure have proven unfounded. I’d predicted that Tatiana , #8 in the Russian crime seri...

Crime Time : NIGHT OF CAMP DAVID – Fletcher Knebel

Crime Time : NIGHT OF CAMP DAVID – Fletcher Knebel: The horrifying premise of Night of Camp David when it debuted in 1965, that a U.S. president could go insane with his finger on the ...

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 TALE TELLER – Anne Hillerman

Crime Time : THE TALE TELLER – Anne Hillerman: I am so disappointed, my critical faculties so disarrayed by The Tale Teller ’ s bad writing, I must warn you any gaps you might dis...

Crime Time : NEW HOPE FOR THE DEAD – Charles Willeford

Crime Time : NEW HOPE FOR THE DEAD – Charles Willeford: Were Hoke Moseley a cop in the rural South it could be said of him, Thet boy’s inna heapa trouble, son (the “son” thrown in just for ...

Crime Time : NADJA ON NADJA – Tsipi Keller

Crime Time : NADJA ON NADJA – Tsipi Keller: Subtle surprises came at times on the turn of a single word the several hours I spent captive in Nadja's head. I found these unexpect...

Crime Time : IN SEARCH OF MURDER – Roderic Jeffries

Crime Time : IN SEARCH OF MURDER – Roderic Jeffries: I’m pretty sure now that I’ve just read In Search of Murder , the thirty-seventh and final episode in the Inspector Alvarez series, that ...

Crime Time : Twofer: DEAD IN THE WATER/MURDER ON ICE – Ted Wood...

Crime Time : Twofer: DEAD IN THE WATER/MURDER ON ICE – Ted Wood...: When Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone's booze problem cost him his wife and his job as a detective with the LAPD he went east, takin...

Crime Time : THE DEATH OF MR. LOMAS – Francis Vivian

Crime Time : THE DEATH OF MR. LOMAS – Francis Vivian: There was a character actor who always got bumped off in movies I watched as a kid. Soon as I saw him on the screen, as a hotel clerk, a ba...

Crime Time : DEATH OF A DISSIDENT – Stuart Kaminsky

Crime Time : DEATH OF A DISSIDENT – Stuart Kaminsky: My initial brainstorm was to copy Stuart Kaminsky's complete introduction to the Mysterious Press edition of his Death of a Disside...

Crime Time : TROUBLED DEATHS – Roderic Jeffries

Crime Time : TROUBLED DEATHS – Roderic Jeffries: Because of my neighbors, who've become hypersensitized to my sonorous emoting while engrossed in crime novels, I nearly choked tryi...

Crime Time : UNEXPECTED NIGHT – Elizabeth Daly

Crime Time : UNEXPECTED NIGHT – Elizabeth Daly: Amberley Cowden is found dead the morning of his twenty-first birthday, the day he inherits a million dollars. A Gypsy finds the body on a ...

Crime Time : NIGHTFALL – David Goodis

Crime Time : NIGHTFALL – David Goodis: Your name is David Goodis. You’re a guy who lives on luck, whose only talent is stringing together words. Your streak of shitty luck, c...

Crime Time : IN RE: SHERLOCK HOLMES – THE ADVENTURES OF SOLAR P...

Crime Time : IN RE: SHERLOCK HOLMES – THE ADVENTURES OF SOLAR P...: As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst ...

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 : TATIANA – Martin Cruz Smith

Crime Time : TATIANA – Martin Cruz Smith: Say goodbye to Arkady Renko. I have this chilly foreboding we'll not see him again, that five years ago Tatiana was his valedictory ...

Crime Time : BEARSKIN – James A. McLaughlin

Crime Time : BEARSKIN – James A. McLaughlin: Thriller. Hands down, thumbs up, no quibbling. We know this from the git-go. Bearskin , the debut novel by James A. McLaughlin, her...

Crime Time : ARKADY RENKO'S ASTOUNDING TRUST IN MARTIN CRUZ SMI...

Crime Time : ARKADY RENKO'S ASTOUNDING TRUST IN MARTIN CRUZ SMI...: Please consider this an intermission in my weekly reporting on the eight -episode series featuring Martin Cruz Smith's incredible ...

Crime Time : GIVE ME YOUR HAND – Megan Abbott

Crime Time : GIVE ME YOUR HAND – Megan Abbott: A couple of years ago a friend dismissed me with words I'd never have imagined could sting so deep. Her voice, distantly glacial, i...

Crime Time : THE CASE OF THE MARVELOUS MASON MACHINE – Mathew P...

Crime Time : THE CASE OF THE MARVELOUS MASON MACHINE – Mathew P...: At long last it can be revealed : Perry Mason and his associates were in fact a highly classified cell of fantastics working undercove...