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October 4, 2016

REVIEW: Bitter Legacy by Dal MacLean

SiriusA Review Category / A- Reviews / Recommended Readscontemporary mm romance / mystery / police procedural20 Comments

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  Detective Sergeant James Henderson of London’s Metropolitan Police Murder Investigation Team is no ordinary police officer. His remarkable gut instincts and relentless detective work have put him on a three-year fast track to becoming an inspector. When the murder of barrister Maria Curzon-Whyte lands in his lap, he finds ... more >

April 29, 2016

Reading List by Sirius

SiriusB Reviews / B Reviews Category / Book Reviews / C Reviews / C Reviews Category / C- Reviewshistorical fantasy m/m romance / m/m romance / police procedural / SFF4 Comments

Into the Divide (The Divide Universe Book 1) by Sandra Bard Nullands: Sections of a series of planets sealed off by an energy barrier, called the Divide, filled with danger, where technology does not work. Tarn is part of the Death Squad, a criminal given a second chance by agreeing ... more >

September 24, 2015

REVIEW: Devoted in Death by JD Robb

KaetrinA- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Recommended Readsfuturistic / police procedural / Serial-Killer / Series17 Comments

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Dear JD Robb, I’m an unabashed fan of the In Death series. This is book 41 and I’m still not sick of it. In the past few years, each book has tended to have one of two possible foci. I call them the more police procedural books or the more ... more >

June 2, 2015

REVIEW: Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch

JanineA- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Need A Rec! / Recommended Readsbiracial hero / Magic / POC / police procedural / Rivers of London / rural setting / Urban-Fantasy18 Comments

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Dear Mr. Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer, the fifth book in your urban fantasy series, finds the hero of the series, police constable and wizard-in-training Peter Grant, driving out to the countryside to help investigate a missing persons case. Two eleven year old girls, Hannah Marstowe and Nicole Lacey, have disappeared from the ... more >

September 2, 2014

REVIEW: Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch

JanineBook Reviews / C ReviewsLondon / Magic / POC / police procedural / Rivers of London / Urban-Fantasy12 Comments

Dear Mr. Aaronovich, I enjoyed all your earlier books in the Peter Grant urban fantasy series, from Midnight Riot (aka Rivers of London) to Moon Over Soho to Whispers Under Ground, although I put off reading book four, Broken Homes, because I had mixed feelings about your comments in the ... more >

Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch
July 30, 2012

REVIEW: Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch

JanineA- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsLondon / POC / police procedural / Recommended Reads / Rivers of London / Urban-Fantasy14 Comments

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Please note: This review is for book three in a series, so it contains some spoilers for the previous two books. Readers who would like to hear more about the Peter Grant series but remain spoiler free are invited to check out the review of the first book, Midnight Riot ... more >

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