January was good for crime fiction reading

At least, if my current column at the Baltimore Sun is anything to go by. To sum up, I really, really loved Jan Burke’s BLOODLINES and Peter Moore Smith’s LOS ANGELES (for different reasons, but still) and thoroughly enjoyed Michael Gruber’s VALLEY OF BONES, while Stella Rimington’s AT RISK was surprisingly well-done and professional and David Fulmer’s JASS evoked 1900s New Orleans with sights and sounds, even if the mystery was a bit thin.

So enjoy,  and if you haven’t read the first three books I mentioned at least, well, get to them!

And the rest of today’s posts appear below over the course of the morning, so keep checking back.