by L Ruby Hannigan | May 19, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
This novel is the fifth in the ongoing Carpenter and Quincannon mystery series. Both part of a detective agency, Sabrina Carpenter and John Quincannon are off on two different cases. Sabrina’s bicycling friend, Anna Wellman, has a problem. She is well known in...
by Retired Reviewer | Jul 17, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
A call for help from his old lover Cheryl sends the intrepid Nameless Detective on a journey from his home office in San Francisco to a small mining town in eastern Nevada. Cheryl’s nineteen-year-old son Cody has been accused of rape, though she is sure he is...
by Site Owner | Jan 9, 2014 | Science Fiction
A Jake Runyon Mystery, Another in the Nameless Detective Series By Bill Pronzini Forge, $25.99, 368 pages Verity Daniels hired a detective agency to help her deal with a case of extortion. She claimed she was receiving threatening calls from someone demanding money....
by michaeld | Feb 27, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
A Nameless Detective Novella By Bill Pronzini Cemetery Dance Publications, $19.99, 185 pages A student at the University of Oregon in Eugene left campus to visit her mother in the San Francisco area. She never arrived. The panicked mother hired a private...
by michaeld | Jan 14, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
Kidnapped Wife Fights to Survive as Detective Husband Searches for Her By Bill Pronzini Forge, $24.99, 304 pages Hoping to find a second home Bill and Kerry drive to the mountains from San Francisco to look at a cabin. To decide whether to make an offer...