Sunset Express: An Elvis Cole Novel (Elvis Cole Novels)48 reviews Robert Crais Ballantine Books, 2005 Elvis Cole is one of the great detectives + 4.5 stars + Sunset Express The more I read Crais's Elvis Cole novels, the more I find myself enjoying them. Sunset Express was no exception. I actually hadn't read the cover copy before I started the book so I was disappointed when it didn't start off sounding like a Cole novel. Never fear, though, Elvis soon enters the ...             California Fire and Life (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)52 reviews Don Winslow Vintage, 2007 Think Viggo Mortensen as Jack Wade!!! + Very cool, one of my favorite books + A Hot, Fast-Paced Thriller + Five-Alarm Thriller + Sizzling hot story             Come Back Dead: A Scott Elliott Mystery (Scott Elliott Mysteries) Terence Faherty Simon & Schuster, 1997 While trying to buy back the rights to his second movie, director Carson Drury realizes that his life is in danger if he refilms and rereleases the movie, and it is up to private eye Scott Elliot to find out who wishes to silence the director. 12,500 first printing.             Stolen Away: A Novel of the Lindbergh Kidnapping7 reviews Max Allan Collins Bantam, 1991 Perfect blend of historical fiction and hard boiled mystery. + Al Capone behind the Lindbergh kidnapping? + Don't let this book be stolen away! + Despite its flaws, one of Heller's best + Ten stars are needed for this one.             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             "B" is for Burglar (The Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries)65 reviews Sue Grafton St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2005 Another Winner for Grafton + Yay Kinsey! + Burglar On The Loose + "B " is for Burglar + B is not for boring             Blackwater Sound: A Novel (Thorn Mysteries)30 reviews James W. Hall St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2002 great writing makes for enjoyable read + Well crafted page turner by a talented writer + A superior thriller with truly poetic language + The Return of Thorn             Kiss3 reviews John Lutz Texas Bookman, 1996 Another Fantastic Installment! + Orthodox and Nice Hard-boiled Detective Story + Solid Florida PI mystery. I inadvertently got introduced to Lutz's Fred Carver stories. I'm hooked. The books are fast paced. They make you think and ponder right along with Fred as pieces of the puzzle come into focus. You'll find yourself holding your breath in suspense many times as you ride shotgun with Carver ...             True Crime6 reviews Max Allan Collins I Books, 2003 If only the history books in school were this fun to read! + True Crime isn't just a title + Nate Heller meets John Dillinger + Terrific continuation of the series begun with True Detective             K Is for Killer (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)58 reviews Sue Grafton Fawcett, 1995 Yay Kinsey! + Enjoyable Escape... Who can not resist the luscious appeal of the California city nightlife? In this novel Kinsey is hired to investigate the murder of a mild-mannered water treatment employee by day and prostitute by night. Grafton paints a vivid and surprisingly exotic picture of the darker side of the night ...             Staked Goat1 review Jeremiah Healy Pocket, 1987 Wonderful characters; higly recommend Cuddy and his friends. I was doubtful when a friend gave this to me. It sounded hardboiled and I don't read those. It was a marvelous surprise. The characters are real, well-rounded people. Cuddy is not what you expect and keeps surprising you. I particularly like his recurrent conversations with his dead wife, ...             Concourse: A Bill Smith-Lydia Chin Mystery (Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novels)16 reviews S. J. Rozan St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1996 A dramatic and well-written P.I. novel + A Solid Second Book to Continue a Series With + A Superbly Taut Mystery from one of Today's Best Writers + You MUST read this great series             Extenuating Circumstances1 review Jonathan Valin Dell, 1990 Not as good as other Stoner novels The Harry Stoner private detective series is one of the better ones around. Stoner is a hardboiled P.I. from Cincinnati who gets involved in some sometime brutally violent stories. "Extenuating Circumstances" is no exception, but it stretches plausibility a bit too much. Also Harry's comes off ...             The Lincoln Lawyer: A Novel292 reviews Michael Connelly Little, Brown and Company, 2005 Lincoln Lawyer + Awesome!!! + -----Another Riveting Story from Michael Connelly----- + Brilliant Courtroom Thriller Reveals the Ethics of Defending Accused Criminals             G Is for Gumshoe (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)54 reviews Sue Grafton Fawcett, 1991 Yay Kinsey! + The second reading was simply delightful! + Loved it In this particular mystery, Kinsey is rather forced to play the girl who has to find the dotty old woman and take her to a nursing home. Sounds like the basic babysitting gig (and Kinsey isn't exactly impressed with it) but Grafton, of course, makes the story more interesting by adding a tale of ...             The Devil Knows You're Dead9 reviews Lawrence Block Avon Book, 1994 The Devil Knows that this is a Great Scudder Novel + A Very Good Book (But An Average Mystery)! As if Lawrence Block's Matthew Scudder series wasn't already the quirkiest private detective series around, "The Devil Knows You're Dead," is Scudder's most unconventional story yet. Superficially, the novel is about Scudder's attempt to prove that a deranged homeless man did not randomly gun down ...             Eight Million Ways To Die: A Matthew Scudder Mystery23 reviews Lawrence Block Avon, 1993 A shiny new edition of an excellent '80s mystery + Very good book.. weak ending... + great mystery with well-defined, interesting characters + Reviews from the Weekend Reader, Elizabeth Jean Allen + Scudder is Great!             Street Level13 reviews Bob Truluck St. Martin's Minotaur, 2000 A star is born in my favorite genre! + An Excellent Read! In this initial outing, Bob Truluck's Duncan Sloan will remind the discerning detective-genre aficionado of Parker's early Spenser offerings...except that Sloan is hipper, smarter, and a bit more wry than Spenser ever was. On top of that, Bob Truluck has somehow managed to come up with a genuinely ...             Sugartown (The Amos Walker Series #5)3 reviews Loren D. Estleman I Books, 2001 Another First Rate Amos Walker Mystery + Dryer than sand + "You could change." No one has since Lot's wife. Loren Estleman writes in the author's notes that follow the story at the end of this i-books edition of "Sugartown," that the novel was his angriest in the series. Interestingly, Estleman places the source of his anger as the backdrop for the story. In the early 1980s, Detroit Mayor Coleman Young ...             Boobytrap (Pronzini, Bill)5 reviews Bill Pronzini Carroll & Graf, 1998 Another superb entry in this outstanding series + Busman's Vacation + Compassionate and humane crime novel + An excellent read