Mad Mouse: A John Ceepak Mystery19 reviews Chris Grabenstein Carroll & Graf, 2007 WITTY, CLEVER AND ZANY + The Past Comes Back to Haunt Danny + The Mouse That Roared + Mad About Mad Mouse + Round 2 of murder, mayhem and mirth on Mad Mouse             Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Travis McGee Mysteries)8 reviews John D. Macdonald Fawcett, 1996 My first McGee novel. A very good start! + Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper + Like meeting an old friend + Poor Nurse Penny + A Thinking Man's Mystery Novel             TKO: A Duffy Dombrowski Mystery18 reviews Tom Schreck MIDNIGHT INK, 2008 TKO: Duffy's back with a punch + TKO + TKO by Tom Schreck + Knocked Out, but still a 'Hound Dog' + Every bit as good as On the Ropes             Trigger City5 reviews Sean Chercover William Morrow, 2008 Two for Two + 5 stars for Trigger City! + excellent Chicago Noir + PI Thriller + Ray Dudgeon Returns!             Nightmare in Pink (Travis McGee, No. 2)19 reviews John D. MacDonald Fawcett, 1995 Audacious. + Must Read... + Remarkable counter-culture hero + Nightmare In Pink             Everybody Dies (Matthew Scudder Mysteries)49 reviews Lawrence Block Avon, 1999 A bout with morality + Listening to stories + violent, but good book + Scudder is back!!!             Whack A Mole: A John Ceepak Mystery14 reviews Chris Grabenstein Carroll & Graf, 2007 Why I love John Ceepak and Danny Boyle + He's Ba-aaack! + Grabenstein may need to add a trophy room to his domicile if he has not done + Ceepak Rocks! + Like Fine Wine             On the Ropes: A Duffy Dombrowski Mystery19 reviews Tom Schreck MIDNIGHT INK, 2007 On the Ropes: A Duffy Dombrowski Mystery + Again! + Good fun, good read + Couldn't put it down! + The Basset is the Star             The Guards: A Novel (Jack Taylor Series)45 reviews Ken Bruen St. Martin's Minotaur, 2004 Familiar and unique + "The Guards" Is Scary Good + Excellent writing! + Dark and brooding Irish crime novel             Big City, Bad Blood25 reviews Sean Chercover Harper, 2008 A Remarkable Debut Detective Novel + Make my Day + Masterfully written hard-boiled detective novel + good start for a tough guy             Out on the Cutting Edge: A Matthew Scudder Crime Novel6 reviews Lawrence Block Avon, 1990 Another top-notch Scudder book. + Once Again................BLOWN AWAY + Scudder's first sober case + Number seven in the series just as exciting as the others.             Tilt-a-Whirl39 reviews Chris Grabenstein Carroll & Graf, 2006 Reviewed for Midwest Book Review + Bruce Springsteen, Salt Water Taffy and Murder? PERFECT! + Murder and Fun at the Jersey Shore + Took me back . . .             When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (Matthew Scudder Mysteries)21 reviews Lawrence Block Avon, 1997 Scudder is the greatest crime protagonist out there + The Nail On The Head + Oh that wonderful sleaze! + Best of the Scudder novels             A Savage Place13 reviews Robert Parker Dell, 1987 Culture Candy? Canines Cut Rap. Creme Brulee & an Apple a Day. + Solid Spenser with One of the Best Endings in the Series + A Savage awakening Who could wash clean in a savage place. Who decided Spenser was too perfect. Parker? A reader? An editor? Who would have the John Galt clarity to dictate Spenser's path through literary annals and genre pitfalls. Galt would have the clarity but, by character, couldn't dictate. Whatever the ...             Walking Shadow (Spenser)27 reviews Robert B. Parker Berkley, 1995 All the world is a stage . . . + great ending + Pure Parker, as always Susan has become a board member for a theatre in Port City, a shabby district on the water front that contains a Chinese ghetto filled with many illegal immigrants, including the Death Dragons, a gang that is run by the dai low for the Kwan Chang tong. The dai low in this case is Ronnie Lu, whose ...             Cross: A Novel (Jack Taylor Series)12 reviews Ken Bruen St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008 Keeper of the Celtic Flame + Stones in his pockets + Another fine Bruen Mystery + Brutal             Promised Land (A Spenser Novel)20 reviews Robert Parker Dell Books, 1987 Strong prose, well written + Another Key Spenser Novel The prose is well-written, the characterizations are vivid and the whole story fits together like a hand in a glove. That said, much of the book is filled with rhetorical politicalization - which, admittedly, was much the topic of the day - that became a bit thick at times. I don't know many ...             Cinnamon Skin (Travis McGee Mysteries)16 reviews John D. Macdonald Fawcett, 1996 Gets better with age + A predator becomes prey. + An excellent Travis McGee outing (may contain spoilers) + Free-standing, but a sequel to FREE FALL IN CRIMSON             Priest: A Novel (Jack Taylor Series)11 reviews Ken Bruen St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008 Irish Noir + Kne Bruens's the Priest + Pitch-black noir in Galway There is no joy for Jack Taylor. This book is like a train wreck. A glorious , noir train wreck that you wouldn't look away from even if you could. The running dialog inside Jacks head is a fascinating window into the mind of a man that reads voraciously out of a desperate need to mask the pain. An ...             Cinnamon Skin (Travis McGee Mysteries)16 reviews John D. Macdonald Fawcett, 1996 Gets better with age + A predator becomes prey. + An excellent Travis McGee outing (may contain spoilers) + Free-standing, but a sequel to FREE FALL IN CRIMSON