Book Review: Coffee & Crime
By Anita Rodgers; reviewed by Jeannette Hartman If you have a taste for food-focused cozy mysteries, you might enjoy Anita Rodgers’ COFFEE AND CRIME. Scotti…
Book Reviews: Did Lizzie Borden kill her father and stepmother?
Reviewed by Jeannette Hartman On this day in 1892, Andrew Borden and his wife Abby were found murdered by a hatchet in their own home…
Book Review: The Mars Room
By Rachel Kushner; reviewed by Jeannette Hartman You could describe Rachel Kushner’s brilliant book as a modern version of CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. But where Rodion…
Book Review: Summer of the Big Bachi
By Naomi Hirahara; reviewed by Jeannette Hartman It’s summer and along residential streets in Sherman Oaks and Studio City, gardeners in broad-brimmed hats bend over…
Book Review: The Driver
By Hart Hanson; reviewed by Jeannette Hartman You wouldn’t think that being a limousine driver would require Special Forces training, but it’s all in a…
Book Review: Sugar Skull
By Denise Hamilton; reviewed by Jeannette Hartman Los Angeles Times reporter Eve Diamond is sitting at the Metro desk working on a weekend crime round-up…