Larry W. Chavis's Blog (9)

Review: THE BRUTAL TELLING by Louise Penny

THE BRUTAL TELLING, Louise Penny Minotaur Books, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-312-37703-8 Hardcover, $24.95 372 pages

Reviewed by Larry W. Chavis One way for a great reading experience to occur is when a reader approaches a book skeptically, then is completely won over by the end. This was one suc… Continue

Added by Larry W. Chavis on December 24, 2009 at 4:20am — No Comments

Review: DOUBLE EXPOSURE by Michael Lister

Tyrus Books, 2009 ISBN 13: 978-0-9825209-2-5 Trade Paper, 204 pages $14.95, U. S. / $16.50, Canada Reviewed by Larry W. Chavis Remington James has a lucrative job in advertising, a wife he loves but from whom he is drifting, and an emptiness of soul he can not fill. When his father dies, Remington ret… Continue

Added by Larry W. Chavis on October 5, 2009 at 2:30am — No Comments

Review: REVELATION by C. J. Sansom

REVELATION by C. J. Sansom First published 2008 by Macmillan Paperback Edition, 2009, Pan Books ISBN 13: 978-0-330-44710-2 REVELATION is the fourth of C. J. Sansom's masterful stories about Matthew Shardlake, a hunchbacked barrister of Lincoln's Inn, London, during the time… Continue

Added by Larry W. Chavis on September 21, 2009 at 7:00am — 1 Comment

Review: SOVEREIGN by C. J. Sansom

In the spring of 1541, Henry VIII faced another conspiracy in the north of England, whose people and nobles were still largely opposed to the 'new religion' and still loyal to Rome. While the conspiracy was uncovered and many of its leaders imprisoned and executed, Henry and his advise… Continue

Added by Larry W. Chavis on August 30, 2009 at 2:09am — 1 Comment

Review: FAULT LINE, by Barry Eisler

FAULT LINE, by Barry Eisler Ballantine Books, March, 2009 Hardcover, $25.00 ($28.00 Canada) ISBN: 978-0-345-50508-8 Reviewed by Larry W. Chavis The United States has a long and treasured heritage of respect for the rights of the individual, personal liberty, and the rule of law. While it certainly hasn’t always played out that way in our history – one can think of our less-than-honorable treatment of the Native Americans, for example – still, this has been the tradition, a tradition that, in r… Continue

Added by Larry W. Chavis on January 20, 2009 at 3:49am — No Comments

Review: BURIED STRANGERS, by Leighton Gage

BURIED STRANGERS By Leighton Gage ISBN: 978-1-56947-514-0 Soho Press, 2009 Hardcover, $24.00 In what has been called the largest urban forest in the world, the Serra da Cantareira, a young man seeking a dog stumbles across what turns out to be an entire clandestine cemetery. The local police delegado, Yoshiro Tanaka leads the investigation, but the case has also drawn the attention of the federal police, and Chief Inspector Mario Silva, who assigns his team to it as well. In the midst of this,… Continue

Added by Larry W. Chavis on January 6, 2009 at 9:41am — No Comments

Review: WHAT BURNS WITHIN, by Sandra Ruttan

RCMP Constables Craig Nolan, Ashlyn Hart, and Tain (no first name) worked together on a case the year before that profoundly impacted all three. Since that time, they've not worked together. As the story opens, each is working a separate case: Nolan, a series of rapes, Hart a series of arson, and Tain a string of child abductions, one of which has turned to murder. As the separate investigations proceed, it becomes clear that they are linked in some fashion, bringing the three together again. Wh… Continue

Added by Larry W. Chavis on December 25, 2008 at 9:29am — 3 Comments

Review: PLAYING DEAD, by Allison Brennan

PLAYING DEAD by Allison Brennan Ballalntine Books, New York September, 2008 Paperback, 462 pages Fifteen years ago, police sergeant Tom O’Brien was sentenced to death for the murders of his wife and her lover, an assistant district attorney. The state’s key witness against him was his daughter, Claire, then fourteen, who found him at the scene, bloody and holding the murder weapon. The thing is, Tom O’Brien was framed. With his execution date four months off, an earthquake allows him to escap… Continue

Added by Larry W. Chavis on October 30, 2008 at 8:22am — No Comments

Review: HELL BENT, William G. Tapply

Hell Bent, A Brady Coyne Mystery by William G. Tapply St. Martin’s Minotaur October, 2008 Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-0-312-35830-3 ISBN-10: 0-312-35830-X 320 pages Brady Coyne is a Boston attorney, living with a dog named Henry David Thoreau in his Beacon Hill apartment. He is in a transition period – his live-in lover, Evie, has gone to California to attend her dying father, and she shows less and less intent to return as time passes, leaving Brady uncertain of his status. He spends his days in l… Continue

Added by Larry W. Chavis on September 23, 2008 at 11:37am — No Comments

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