Frames : a Valentino Mystery

Susan Clifford Braun – Library Journal: Valentino is a UCLA film archivist with a passion for the silent screen. When he buys a decrepit movie theater in West Hollywood, he gets much more than he expects-a skeleton in a hidden Prohibition-vintage basement and a stack of priceless film reels of Erich von Stroheim's legendary Greed. […]

Blood Lies

Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Fans of intelligent contemporary whodunits who enjoyed Scott Turow's debut, Presumed Innocent, will find welcome echoes of that modern classic in the fourth novel from Canadian author Kalla (Rage Therapy), who's also an ER physician. When drug addict Emily Kenmore is found with her neck slashed in her Seattle condo, […]

Irish Linen : a Nuala Anne McGrail Novel

Publishers Weekly: Readers who can endure the juvenile sex talk at the start of Greeley's 10th Nuala Anne McGrail novel (after 2006's Irish Crystal) will be rewarded with a mildly entertaining mystery. When Nuala Anne, singer and sometime psychic, learns that Desmond Doolin, a peacenik young man from her Chicago neighborhood, has gone missing in […]