Review of Lisa Black’s Maggie Gardiner & Jack Renner Series

I have previously reviewed Lisa Black’s Theresa MacLean forensic science series and found to it to be a reasonably good series, not great but not bad. Black has now turned her attention to a new series and has so far written five books with a sixth to be released soon. Read More

Thriller Release Alert!-A Conspiracy of Bones

Looking for something to do while being quarantined or practicing social-distancing? How about a good thriller? After a short hiatus, Kathy Reichs has released today the 19th book in the Temperance Brennan series, A Conspiracy of Bones. It’s sweltering in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Temperance Brennan, still recovering from neurosurgery following an aneurysm, is battling […]

Review of Danielle Girard’s Latest Novel, Expose

The focus of my blog is to review book series and not individual novels. But writers are going to continue writing novels within a series even after I have done my review, so I plan on reviewing the individual novels as they come into circulation.  Danielle Girard has recently added book #3, Expose to the Dr. […]

Thriller Release Alert!-Expose

For forensic thriller fans, Danielle Girard has released today Expose, the third installment from her series that features medical examiner Dr. Annabelle Schwartzman. With her vindictive ex-husband out of prison, San Francisco medical examiner Annabelle Schwartzman is trying harder than ever to move on with her life—by focusing on her job to speak for the […]

Thriller Release Alert!-Shattered Mirror

Best-selling author Iris Johansen has released today the 23rd book from the Eve Duncan series. This series has it all; ghosts, vampires, telepaths, and of course, let’s not forget, a character that can mind meld with animals. What’s there not to like? Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is once again thrown into a deadly game of […]

Thriller Release Alert!-Lament the Common Bones

Canadian author and scientist Jen J. Danna along with coauthor Anne Vanderlaan have released today Lament the Common Bones, the fifth book in the Abbott and Lowell Forensic Mystery series. When death hides in plain sight, only the most discerning eye can see the truth. Forensic anthropologist Dr. Matt Lowell and his team of grad […]

Review of Patricia Cornwell’s Latest Novel, Chaos

The focus of my blog is to review book series and not individual novels. But writers are going to continue writing novels within a series even after I have done my review, so I plan on reviewing the individual novels as they come into circulation.   Patricia Cornwell has just recently added book #24, Chaos to […]

Thriller Release Alert!- Chaos

Patricia Cornwell, author of the Kay Scarpetta forensic thriller series, has released today Chaos, book #24 in the series. In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, twenty-six-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by lightning—except the weather is perfectly clear with not a cloud in […]

Thriller Release Alert!- Truth Will Out

British author A.D. Garrett has released today the third book in the Simms and Fennimore forensic thriller series entitled Truth Will Out. A mother and daughter are snatched on their way home from the cinema. The crime bears a number of chilling similarities to a cold case Prof. Nick Fennimore was involved in. Then Nick begins […]

Thriller Release Alert!- The Bone Collection

Kathy Reichs, author of the Temperance Brennan forensic thriller series, has released today The Bone Collection, an assemblage of short stories including a prequel to the series, First Bones. In First Bones, a prequel to Reichs’s first novel, Déjà Dead, she at last reveals the tale of how Tempe became a forensic anthropologist. In this never-before-published story, Tempe […]

Thriller Release Alert!- Without Mercy

Jefferson Bass, author of the forensic thriller series, The Body Farm, and publisher William Morrow have released today the tenth book in the series, Without Mercy. Forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton has spent twenty-five years solving brutal murders—but none so bizarre and merciless as his latest case: A ravaged set of skeletal remains is found chained […]