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Green Sun

By admin|2019-12-10T21:45:49+00:00May 14th, 2018|2018 Best Books of the Year, Crime Fiction, Mysterious Book Report|

Mysterious Book Report No. 334 Green Sun by John Dwaine McKenna There’s plenty of reality TV programs these days that show viewers what cops are doing during their shifts, and what they’re putting up with from John Q. and Susie B. Public. Now, a new book puts readers into the jump seat of a 1980s vintage squad car during the spring and summer of a new officer’s probationary period

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Down The River Unto The Sea

By admin|2019-12-10T21:39:21+00:00April 30th, 2018|2018 Best Books of the Year, Crime Fiction, Mysterious Book Report|

Mysterious Book report No. 332 Down The River Unto The Sea by John Dwaine McKenna Walter Mosley has authored more than fifty books. He’s been appointed a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, won just about any award you could name, his books have been translated into twenty different languages and he is revered from here to kingdom come. He entertains, enlightens and thrills his readers. While

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The Downside

By admin|2019-11-12T21:49:58+00:00January 8th, 2018|2018 Best Books of the Year, Crime Fiction, Mysterious Book Report|

The Downside Mysterious Book Report No. 316 by John Dwaine McKenna The MBR is kicking off the New Year 2018 with one of the best caper novels to come our way since The Sting was made into a movie back in 1973. It features one of the most unique bad guys in current crime fiction. His name is Finn and he’s a professional thief who calls himself the last

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Nothing Short Of Dying

By admin|2019-12-12T21:23:08+00:00November 6th, 2017|2017 Best Books of the Year, Crime Fiction, Mysterious Book Report|

Nothing Short of Dying Mysterious Book Report No 310 by John Dwaine McKenna We’re excited here at the MBR, to bring you part I of an event that only comes along once in a blue moon and is scarcer than two-buck Chuck at a gang-banger’s ball. It’s our awesome two-fer . . . just like the five-to-seven happy hour at the He Ain’t Here Lounge . . . we’re

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She Rides Shotgun

By admin|2019-12-12T21:18:14+00:00October 9th, 2017|2017 Best Books of the Year, Crime Fiction, Mysterious Book Report|

She Rides Shotgun Mysterious Book Report No. 305 by John Dwaine McKenna Some authors hit the bookstores in high gear and never stop producing exciting and original works that become award-winners and best-sellers almost overnight, because readers get excited and tell their friends about it. Word-of-mouth spreads like wildfire and the writer establishes a bigger fan base with each new book. Our author this week deserves just such chit-chat.

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Blue Light Yokohama

By admin|2019-12-12T21:07:35+00:00May 5th, 2017|2017 Best Books of the Year, Crime Fiction, Mysterious Book Report|

The Blue Light of Yokohama Mysterious Book Report No. 285 by John Dwaine McKenna Every now and then, a forthcoming book generates so much pre-publication interest that the MBR wants to get a look at it at the earliest possible date. If an ARC, or Advance Readers (i.e. Reviewers) Copy isn’t readily available, we can sometimes spend some extra money and get a true first edition from the British,

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IQ

By admin|2019-12-12T20:59:16+00:00May 5th, 2017|2017 Best Books of the Year, Crime Fiction, Mysterious Book Report|

IQ Mysterious Book Report No. 281 by John Dwaine McKenna One sure way to know you’re reading a great book, is when you just don’t want it to end. Perhaps it’s because you’ve found the main character to be so fascinating, endearing or heroic that you don’t want to break contact with him; or the story is so compelling, you have to know, What happens next? Those are the

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Redemption Road

By admin|2019-12-12T21:20:31+00:00May 5th, 2017|2017 Best Books of the Year, Crime Fiction, Mysterious Book Report|

Redemption Road Mysterious Book Report No. 274 by John Dwaine McKenna One of my personal frustrations in life is that at any given time, there’s a pile of forty to sixty or more books on my bookcase waiting to be read and reported on. Well Okay, you say, What’s wrong with that? Sounds like job security to me . . . True, but here’s the exasperating part. The shelf

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The Second Life Of Nick Mason

By admin|2019-12-17T21:48:48+00:00February 6th, 2017|2016 Best Books of the Year, Crime Fiction, Mysterious Book Report|

Mysterious Book Report No. 254 The Second Life of Nick Mason by John Dwaine McKenna Author Steve Hamilton’s Alex McKnight series won an Edgar Award and captured a boatload of other major crime fiction distinctions, including two listings on the New York Times notable books of the year roster. Pretty impressive, to say the least. Now, he’s begun a new series with an anti-hero protagonist that’s creating an earthquake

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Run You Down

By admin|2019-12-12T21:31:13+00:00October 26th, 2016|2016 Best Books of the Year, Crime Fiction, Mysterious Book Report|

Mysterious Book Report No. 228 Run You Down by John Dwaine McKenna The word Haredi is literally translated from the Hebrew as “One who trembles in awe at the word of God.” The Haredim are “Members of any various Orthodox Jewish sects characterized by strict adherence to the traditional form of Jewish Law and the rejection of modern secular culture,” according to the Oxford Dictionary of English language. The

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