NO GOOD DEEDS, by Laura Lippman

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Mystery novels remain some of my standard fare. There’s nothing like kicking back and testing an author—especially a new one or a favored old one—to see if they can slip one by me.I’d heard a lot about Laura Lippman and her series detective Tess Monaghan. I’d even picked up a few books. But [...]

Shanghaied to the Moon by Michael J. Daley

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Science fiction novels these days are an odd mix. Most of them tend to be tied into television or movie properties. A few have roots in video games. Others have science so ingrained and specialized that weaving a story through all the information overload can be tough.
I grew up on science fiction [...]

Operation Clean Sweep by Darleen Bailey Beard

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Although the historical novel for the juvenile and YA crowd seems to be going the way of the dodo (I expect mainly because the world has become so urbanized and suburbanized that kids can’t imagine what small town living was like in the 1950s—or earlier as in this novel), I still find the [...]