This is the fifth book in a series by author M.K. Coker that follows rural sheriff Karen Mahaffey in Eda County, South Dakota. The run-up to Dead News has been the next […]
Book Review: Dead News by M.K. Coker
Book Review: The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly – Harry Bosch Haunted by a Serial Killer
The third book in Michael Connelly’s series about Los Angeles Homicide detective Harry Bosch builds quite well on what was set up in earlier books. Harry is the type of detective that […]
Book Review: Alone by Lisa Gardner – Suspenseful Detective Drama
This is one of those books I almost put down. I’m not even sure why it was in my Kindle library. I thought, perhaps, it was a book I was gifted from […]
Book Review: The Black Ice by Michael Connelly – Entertaining Detective Fiction
Gritty police detectives who sometimes operate outside of department boundaries are a favorite character in crime novels. Sometimes they are too much of a favorite character and it’s hard to strike the […]
Movie Review: Lethal Weapon 3 – I’m Chaos, and He’s Mayhem… We’re a Double Act.
Written by Jeffrey Boam, Robert Mark Kamen, and Shane BlackDirected by Richard Donner For the third incarnation of the popular Lethal Weapon series, things had to be shaken up a bit. Having […]
Movie Review: Lethal Weapon – Beyond Mad Max, Gibson Shows He Has Talent
Written by Shane BlackDirected by Richard Donner It’s hard to remember a time when Mel Gibson wasn’t an immediately recognizable name. There was a time in the mid-1980s when he was known […]
Movie Review: Training Day – A Different Kind of Cop/Buddy Flick
Written by David AyerDirected by Antoine Fuqua Denzel Washington has become one of the most significant actors of our time. His ability to convince the viewer to see him as whatever character […]
Book Review: Open Season by Archer Mayor – Murder Most Uncommon
This is the first book in a series written about a police officer in the sleepy town of Brattleboro, Vermont. First published in 1988, it’s a bit dated, but still was an […]
Growing Up On Long Island: Racism 103 – It Gets Worse
In my last post I covered how the police started treating the neighborhood differently once we were “mixed.” What could have been a very bad incident didn’t bring police in until shots […]
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