Tag: reviews

• Female Sleuths Sweep 2024 Anthony Awards

  

  This year’s Anthony winners include a quirky mother-daughter-granddaughter trio, a Chicago detective tracking a serial killer and a young Enola Holmes taking on brother Sherlock.

  N.K. Mitchell

  September 2, 2024

  Award winners

  book-review, crime-fiction, fiction, mystery, reviews

• Welcome Back, Vic! The Tough Chicago PI Returns

  

  The now middle-aged Warshawski is still reeling from her last case when she agrees to search for a missing young woman in Kansas — and then stumbles across another woman’s body. I loved book 22 in this series.

  N.K. Mitchell

  June 30, 2024

  Contemporary Setting, New Release, Private Investigators, Traditional Mystery

  book-review, books, crime-fiction, fiction, mystery, reviews

• A Flawed Protagonist Searches for the Missing, and Redemption

  

  Frankie Elkin is an “average, middle-aged white woman” who travels from one missing-persons case to the next, dragging a single suitcase behind her. Think Jack Reacher, but with fewer muscles and more underwear.

  N.K. Mitchell

  June 29, 2024

  Amateur Sleuths, Backlist, Noir Mystery

  crime-fiction, fiction, lisa-gardner, reviews, thriller

• What Lies in the Woods: A Survivor’s Suspenseful Tale

  

  A twist-filled tale about the resilience of little girls and the adults who are supposed to take care of them. I was cheering for our tough protagonist by the end, a grand finale I definitely didn’t see coming.

  N.K. Mitchell

  January 12, 2024

  Amateur Sleuths, Contemporary Setting, Traditional Mystery

  book-review, books, fiction, mystery, reviews, thriller