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We’re all familiar with AI and learning more each day about its benefits and its dangers.  In Michael Connelly’s latest novel featuring Mickey Haller, the Lincoln Lawyer, we learn about its cost to the lives of two young people.  One has died, the other is in prison for her murder, and Haller is now involved in a lawsuit against Tidalwaiv, the compa...


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Is it as simple as it appears in A Shock to the System to become a killer, even a serial killer?  Can someone live thirty or more years as a law-abiding citizen only to have a seemingly insignificant action be the beginning of a series of murders?  In this English novel published in 1984, the answer is yes.

Graham Marshall was, in hi...


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Dahlia “Doll” Devine is a singer of country songs at McPhee’s Tavern, and her own life could be a perfect country song by itself.  An unknown father, abandoned by her mother when she was a young child, now deserted by her boyfriend Joey who took their rent money with him–it’s an absolute tsunami of bad things that have happened to Doll.

Still, dre...


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Two key members of the Locard Forensic Institute, Dr. Ellie Carr and Dr. Rachael Davies, combine their skills in order to bring home the daughter of a celebrated rock star.  In their latest case, Rachael goes to the mansion belonging to Billy Diamond, formerly the lead member of the famed band Chimera, where he tells her his teenage daughter Devon is mis...


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It’s time for my list of the best mysteries published this year.  As always, there were so many excellent crime novels that came out in 2025 that it’s hard to choose among them, but I’ve picked a baker’s dozen, including one with an asterisk.

As has been true for the last several years, my choices range geographically around the world–the United S...


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