A Game of Ghosts by John Connolly This is the latest (2017) in the popular Charlie Parker series, and continues Parker’s battles against the forces of darkness. Charlie Parker is a former cop turned private eye who lost both his wife and young daughter to a serial killer known as the Travelling Man. As Connolly […]
It Devours!
It Devours! by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor It’s difficult to know how to accurately describe this novel, but allow me to try. It’s a lot of ridiculous, off-the-wall, acid-tripping nonsense. There. How’s that? Want some more? O.K. It’s so weird as to make the worst excesses of Monty Python’s Flying Circus look like a […]
Open Season
Open Season by C.J. Box This is the first book in the Joe Pickett series. It was published way back in 2001 when Joe was but a young man starting out with Wyoming Game and Fish. In Open Season, we find our favorite game warden investigating the death of a man who is found alongside […]
Light Of The World
Light of the World by James Lee Burke This is book 20 in the Dave Robicheaux series, and the latest. The next Robicheaux novel is due for release on January 2nd, 2018, so fans don’t have too long to wait. The next edition is titled… Robicheaux (Burke is becoming no nonsense when it comes to […]
Pegasus Descending
Pegasus Descending by James Lee Burke This is book 15 in the popular Dave Robicheaux series. In this installment, the bold detective from New Iberia in Louisiana, encounters the daughter of a friend of his who was gunned down many years before in Miami. Her appearance coincides with the emergence of some seriously bad hombres […]
Last Car To Elysian Fields
Last Car To Elysian Fields by James Lee Burke This is number 13 in the Dave Robicheaux series, set in southern Louisiana. In this installment, the New Iberia detective is drawn into a decades-old case of a popular blues singer who vanished whilst serving time in Angola prison. As is to be expected, such investigations […]
Crusader’s Cross – Jame Lee Burke Thriller
Crusader’s Cross by James Lee Burke The romance is on again. Rebel Voice and James Lee have renewed their tempestuous relationship but on a day by day basis. If Jamesy starts to act the bollox, then he’s getting the chop. Dave Robicheaux is again to the fore in this installment, book 14 in the popular […]
Deal Breaker
Deal Breaker by Harlan Coben Rebel Voice has decided that, after the recent break-up with James Lee Burke, we should both see other people. Harlan Coben is an old flame. Whether it is advisable to return to such a relationship is questionable, but here goes. In this first installment of the Myron Bolitar series (1995), […]
Cadillac Jukebox
Cadillac Jukebox by James Lee Burke This is number 9 in the Detective Dave Robicheaux series and was first published way back in 1996 (some of you may not have been born then). It’s one more in Rebel Voice‘s ongoing Burke binge. In this installment, Robicheaux finds himself in a mess as Louisiana’s racist past […]
Burning Angel
Burning Angel by James Lee Burke This is yet another episode in my Burke binge, and yet another that I thoroughly enjoyed. Louisiana Detective, Dave Robicheaux, is thrust onto a smorgasbord of mystery and terror as he meets up with Sonny Boy Marsallas, a New Orleans street hustler who has returned from exile in Latin […]
In The Electric Mist With The Confederate Dead
In The Electric Mist With The Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke This author should get a Nobel prize for literature on the basis of his book titles alone. Added to this one we have such notable names as Black Cherry Blues, A Stained White Radiance and Jolie Blon’s Bounce which has been reviewed by […]
Hell Train
Hell Train by Christopher Fowler This is an usual little book which should appeal to all fans of the old Hammer movies which starred Chris Lee and Peter Cushing. Shane Carter is a script writer from Hollywood who finds himself at a loose end when his job ends. He makes his way to England to […]