Legal/Police Procedural

“an imaginative story with some creative viewpoints about guilt, punishment, and redemption . . .”

Detective Kat Murphy’s life is hell . . . literally.

Anne Hillerman’s Song of the Lion follows a path well trodden in cultural police procedurals.

The Darkness of Evil is the seventh book in the Karen Vail series. Vail is an FBI profiler who’s investigated some of the world’s most vicious serial killers.

What would it take to destroy everything you appear to value in your life?

“Truth . . . the one thing people will do anything to hide . . . because the truth will always come out in the end.”

A killer is stalking the women of Göteborg.

Thriller readers who yearn for intrigue, swift pacing, and surreal happenings will enjoy every word of Steve Mosby’s The Reckoning on Cane Hill.

“a cop’s loyalty to justice and the law must take precedence over her personal opinion of the victims.”

Something may have been lost in the translation, but The Hanging Girl by Jussi Adler-Olsen is flat.

“It’s not a perfect situation, of course. But really, when you think about it, what actually is?”

“the Flemish setting and the unexpected plot twists make this an enjoyable read.”

“All the right foundation stones are there on which to build a solid series.”