A new mystery series to explore! This new addition to the Shelves is an Inspector Banks novel, Children of the Revolution by Peter Robinson: The body of a disgraced college lecturer is found on an abandoned railway line. In the four years since his dismissal for sexual misconduct, he’d been living like a hermit. So where did he get the 5,000… Read more

Next up on the New Book Hit Parade, The Barkeep by William Lashner: Justin Chase is the perfect barkeep, tending bar as he lives his life, in a state of Zen serenity. At least until Birdie Grackle, a yellow-haired, foul-mouthed alcoholic from Texas, walks into his bar, orders a Mojito, and makes a startling confession. Six years ago Justin’s life was… Read more

I’ve got a few new books on my Kindle that have been added to my private collection. Since they will probably eventually end up being reviewed here, I thought I would share… Among my recent purchases, The Neighbors by Ania Albhorn:  Andrew Morrison sacrificed everything—his childhood, his education, and the girl of his dreams—to look after his alcoholic mother. But enough… Read more

This one should be fun: turn-of-the-century detectives in San Francisco. The Spook Lights Affair by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini: In 1895 San Francisco young debutantes don’t commit suicide at festive parties, particularly not under the eye of Sabina Carpenter.  But Virginia St. Ives evidently did, leaping from a foggy parapet in a shimmer of ghostly light. The seemingly impossible… Read more