by michaeld | Dec 15, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
By Stephen Coonts Forge Books, $24.99, 253 pages Three Novellas is by the master of airplanes, war, and the human condition: Stephen Coonts. The Sea Witch, from which the book draws its name, is a World War II Catalina Flying Boat painted flat...
by michaeld | Nov 4, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
By Carsten Stroud Knopf 24.95 400 pages Rainey Teague, a pale blond kid with a gangly way of going, disappears from the face of the earth. The Niceville Police Department manages to ID the last person to see the missing kid. Alf Pennington, who...
by Site Owner | Oct 19, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Film, TV & Theater
A Real Man’s Man by Marc Eliot Crown Archetype, $26.00, 354 pages We all have heroes, some good, some bad, and some tarnished. Steve McQueen is one of my heroes. Who can forget his portrayal of the cooler king in “The Great Escape”, escaping from the...
by Site Owner | Oct 12, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
by C. J. Box Minotaur Books, $25.99, 372 pages Cody Hoyt, a Lewis and Clark County Sheriff’s investigator, is sent into the Big Belt Mountains where a couple of hikers had found a half burned-out cabin with human remains inside. Everyone but Cody is quick to...
by Site Owner | Aug 1, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
By Dana Stabenow Minotaur Books, $25.99, 384 pages Restless in the Grave is the 19th book in the Kate Shugak series. When a well known pilot flies his airplane into the frozen turf of Alaska everyone is a suspect in what Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell refers to...
