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A Rollicking Murder on the High Seas By: Carl Hiaasen Joey’s idea of a romantic two year anniversary with her philandering (and let’s be honest, just plain dull) husband hardly includes a midnight stroll across a stormy cruise-ship deck and a sudden push that catapults her over the edge. It seems that Chaz Perrone, rent-a-biologist and scammer, has finally embraced at least one call to action and, you know, actually done something. The only issue is that, as a would-be-murderer and a recent widower, Chaz may have the will but certainly not the talent for crime. Enter the python-loving loner [...]

Death Trains... Author:  Scott Andrew Selby There’s an unwritten rule when it comes to the modern world of publishing. Every serial killer gets his (or her) book. Until recently, one exception to this rule was a German man named Paul Ogorzow. But more than 70 years after he terrorized wartime Berlin with his horrific exploits, Herr Ogorzow – also known as The S-Bahn Murderer – finally gets his due in A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin by Scott Andrew Selby. Unfortunately, the book really isn’t that good. Not that Ogorzow didn’t do his part. Just as Hitler was putting the [...]

Losers Weepers Author: Stephen King I do believe that Stephen King is in the process of writing what is as close as he will ever (ever) get to a cozy mystery series. How weird is that? Granted, in his world, cozy mysteries have a lot of horrible murders and graphic violence, but Finders Keepers, the second in the series (following Mr. Mercedes) has a lot of the qualities we’ve come to expect from our tamer cozy cousins. Finders Keepers begins with a murder. Morris Bellamy has been obsessed with his favorite author for some time, but was so disappointed in [...]