by StrandMag | Feb 2, 2023 | Reviews
NEVER BROKEN: A LISA JAMISON MYSTERY By Lori Duffy Foster Olney, MD: Level Best Books, 2022. $16.95 paperback Never Broken is the second book in Lori Duffy Foster’s Lisa Jamison series. If you haven’t read her previous book, A Dead Man’s Eyes (2021), it’s probably...
by StrandMag | Feb 2, 2023 | Reviews
Book Review: Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System JUNK SCIENCE AND THE AMERICAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM By M. Chris Fabricant New York: Akashic Books, 2022. $29.95 Sir Bernard Spilsbury was arguably the first celebrity pathologist, a man whose...
by StrandMag | Feb 2, 2023 | Reviews
Now Streaming Review: Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? The twenty-first century has been both the best of times and the worst of times for Agatha Christie’s adaptations. Some have been utter sludge that has gutted and twisted some of her finest books, and others have...
by StrandMag | Feb 2, 2023 | Reviews
THE UNCOMMON CASE OF DANIEL BROWN HOW A WHITE POLICE OFFICER WAS CONVICTED OF KILLING A BLACK CITIZEN, BALTIMORE, 1875 By Gordon H. Shufelt Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2021. $24.95 COLD WAR SECRETS A VANISHED PROFESSOR, A SUSPECTED KILLER, AND HOOVER’S FBI...
by StrandMag | Feb 2, 2023 | Reviews
BASIL’S WAR A WWII SPY THRILLER By Stephen Hunter New York: Mysterious Press, 2021. $23.95 FINDING TESSA By Jaime Lynn Hendricks New York: Scarlet, 2021. $25.95 THE LAST COMMANDMENT By Scott Shepherd New York: Mysterious Press, 2021. $25.95 These three new books from...
by StrandMag | Feb 2, 2023 | Reviews
AGATHA CHRISTIE’S GOLDEN AGE, VOLUME II: MISS MARPLE AND THE OTHER GOLDEN AGE PUZZLES By John Goddard Wimbledon, UK: Stylish Eye Press, 2021. $68.99 ($18.99 paperback) A little more than two years ago, I reviewed John Goddard’s terrific book Agatha Christie’s Golden...
