Shutter Island390 reviews Dennis Lehane HarperTorch, 2004 Too Smart for My Own Good + fun and intriguing read I solved the anagram on page 205 and from that I predicted the entire last half of the story. LeHane should have hidden such a revelatory clue a little better. It is like a major spoiler right in the middle of the story, making the last half a bit of a chore instead of the breathless progression it ...             Angels: A Novel19 reviews Denis Johnson Harper Perennial, 2002 A Life of Wonders... + Resuscitation of a gassed man + One of the Best Books Out There + Johnson before he really opens up             Darkness, Take My Hand (Patrick Kenzie/Angela Gennaro Novels)118 reviews Dennis Lehane HarperTorch, 1997 A Must-Read IF you have a strong stomach + Hannibal Lecter meets Stephen King's "IT" + Loved it! + Loved it!! So much better than his first one!             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             Ancestor54 reviews Scott Sigler Dragon Moon Press, 2007 Thanks God they didn't use Pit Bull DNA + Excellent Read - Link to pdf download + More Sigler fun + Excellent book + Scary cows gone bad             Chance (Spenser)26 reviews Robert B. Parker Berkley, 1997 Casting Diamonds to Devils: Shattering A Child's Crystalline Dreams. + Chance would be a fine thing . . . + Spenser and Hawk get involved in potential crime turf battles The prologue of CHANCE was a haunting literary coup. Opening with the ethereal elegance of crystal goblets and white linen dreams, it descended quickly into the darkened schemes of beating bands and backed up screams: >> It was all to come. The cocktails, the crystal, the starched white ...             Tree of Smoke: A Novel78 reviews Denis Johnson Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 Haunting, moving, and evocative + What's Your Poison? + Denis Johnson's latest book was worth the long wait. + A monumental book. . .             Neitherworld Book One Akiiwan (CreateSpace Version)9 reviews Scott Baker CreateSpace, 2007 NeitherWorld Book One: Akiiwan is excellent! + Captivating and enjoyable reading + An Epic Imagination + GREAT BOOK!! + NeitherWorld Book One: Akiiwan is excellent!             Burglars Can't Be Choosers17 reviews Lawrence Block HarperTorch, 2004 Bernie Steals 5 Stars From This Reviewer + The good guys are the bad guys and the good guys always win. + Mr. Block does it again! + Somewhat promising start to a series             The Boxer and the Spy16 reviews Robert B. Parker Philomel, 2008 Teens Reveal the Truth behind a Puzzling Death + the boxer & the spy + Great for Reluctant Reader shelf + Teenage Slueths + A well-crafted teen mystery             Infected: A Novel175 reviews Scott Sigler Crown, 2008 Sucks you right in!! + scary, gross and pretty great + Great book. Solid read, very believable + The best book I've read this year             Stranger in Paradise (Jesse Stone Novels)52 reviews Robert B. Parker Putnam Adult, 2008 Maybe the best of the Stone series... Perhaps I was just in the right mood, but I devoured this one in two sittings, and the break I took in order to go to sleep was done regretfully. For a change, the actual suspense/mystery/thriller plot was better than the personal relationships depicted. Thus, it qualified for me as a ...             A Drink Before the War142 reviews Dennis Lehane Harvest Books, 2003 Incredible Introduction to Kenzie & Angie + In the shadow of Walter Mosley + great book Having already read later Lehane novels, this was an incredible introduction to the characters and an intriguing story weaving Boston politics and gangs. It is so much more than a mystery or thriller--Lehane really makes you care about all of the characters--including Bubba! The violence has ...             Prayers for Rain (Patrick Kenzie/Angela Gennaro Novels)157 reviews Dennis Lehane HarperTorch, 2000 Another winner + Please Dennis, don't hurt any more animals... + A Fun Read Dennis Lehane deserves all the praise he receives. He is truly a master writer and story teller. He always delivers a well-written, strongly plotted and entertaining story. Prayers for Rain ranks up there with Gone Baby Gone and Mystic River. This book is dark, gruesome, violent and riveting. ...             The Name of the World: A Novel30 reviews Denis Johnson Harper Perennial, 2001 He drops the ball For the first nine-tenths, maybe, this novel is almost perfect; I got the sense that no _word_ could be replaced. The measured complacency of the prose gives a perfect sense of character; a sense of a man, in fact, who doesn't have a great deal of character, and is aware of it. It's seamless. I ...             Jack Wakes Up (Jack Palms Crime Mysteries)54 reviews Seth Harwood Breakneck Books, 2008 Shake 'Em Down BABYYYYYY!!!! + JACK PALMS is the man + Could not put this book down! + What a great book. What a great writer. + better than the pod cast             A Walk Among the Tombstones: A Matthew Scudder Crime Novel13 reviews Lawrence Block Harper Paperbacks, 2000 Another Winner + A good Scudder, but not a classic + a headlong ride with no letup If there is a better living crime novelist than Lawrence Block, I'd like to know who it is. I have yet to read a Scudder story that did not have me riveted! Having only recently discovered this series, every time I read another one it is deemed my new "favorite." So, until I finish "Time to ...             A Stab in the Dark (Matthew Scudder Mysteries)11 reviews Lawrence Block Avon, 2002 one the best of Matthew Scudder + Matt Scudder Solves a Cold Case + Great Hardboiled Fiction The earlier Matthew Scudder noves are the best. They are dark, gritty and realistic. In later novels, Block marries off Scudder, why? Marrying the detective off makes him as Mr and Mrs North. Here he is still free to adventure and screw up. Block fleshes out all of the characters and we know ...             Now and Then60 reviews Robert B. Parker Putnam Adult, 2007 Terrific read... + A notch above some of the more recent series' efforts... + Excellent I've been reading Parker for a long time, and it's great to see him back at the top of his form again. Even when the book is not great, Spenser is always fun. And this book shows our favorite PI at his best. Wisecracking with cops and bad guys, flirting with beautiful women, and, of course, being ...             The Boxer and the Spy16 reviews Robert B. Parker Philomel, 2008 Teens Reveal the Truth behind a Puzzling Death + the boxer & the spy + Great for Reluctant Reader shelf + Teenage Slueths + A well-crafted teen mystery