VJ Books Blog

Reading comes to a dead end

(bangkokpost.com, Nov. 16, Roger Crutchley) The other evening I had just finished polishing off the latest Stephen Leather novel, Dead Men – a decent yarn by the way – and put the book onto the shelf next to the previous work I had read, A Good Day To Die...

Best mysteries of 2008

(catholic.org, Dec. 17) Sun Sentinel (MCT) – In “The Finder,” Colin Harrison combines a strong eye for social details and the intricacies of New York City for a novel that is equally literary fiction and mystery. A scheme in which office cleaners...

Mark Billingham – In the Dark

(Publisher’s Weekly, Aug. 25) The line between cop and criminal becomes dangerously blurred in Mark Billingham’s excellent stand-alone thriller (In The Dark). Told from multiple points-of-view and full of red herrings, the story begins in the London...