My Favorite Books of 2019

My Favorite Books of 2019

After some effort I managed to sort my reading in 2019 enough to identify 20 books that I really liked. Some of them reflect my renewed interest in Golden Age authors. In alphabetical order by the author’s last name, here they are. The Shameless by Ace Atkins,...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Cry Guilty by Sara Woods

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Cry Guilty by Sara Woods

British author Lana Hutton Bowen-Judd (1922-1985) published 48 mysteries under the name of Sara Woods, three under the name Anne Burton, three under the name of Mary Challis, and three under the name Margaret Leek. Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, she emigrated...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Pronto by Elmore Leonard

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Pronto by Elmore Leonard

Pronto by Elmore Leonard (Delacorte Press, 1993) is the first appearance in print of Raylan Givens, the U.S. Marshal who featured in the FX series Justified from March 2010 to April 2015. The television series was based on Leonard’s short story “Fire in...
Fridays Forgotten Book: The Perfect Murder by H.R.F. Keating

Fridays Forgotten Book: The Perfect Murder by H.R.F. Keating

Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating (1926–2011) was an English journalist, book reviewer, and crime fiction writer, most well-known for his 26 mysteries featuring Inspector Ganesh Ghote of the Bombay (Mumbai) CID.  Other novels included...