LJ's Mystery Reviews - It Is Purely My Opinion

First Sentence:  Janice drove slowly to avoid jostling the plastic container of food on the floor behind her seat. Mick Harden, newly retire...

First Sentence: Souls don’t scatter like the rest of the body. Rita Todachene is a forensic photographer whose precise crime scene photograp...

Fir st Sentence: It was a balmy evening for early spring; after ten and still a faint, lingering hint of warmth in the air. Joseph Clark i...

I love police procedurals! Here is a list compiled by George Easter, publisher of Deadly Pleasures Online Mystery Magazine, to which I am a ...

First Sentence: The first English Person I encountered as I wandered the vast city of Rome in February of 1820 was a man I already knew. Cap...

First Sentence: On August 12, 2000, Abby Morris, out of breath with sweat trickling down her temple, was hurrying down the gray ribbon of gr...

First Sentence: There’s a time and place for erect nipples, but the back of a Seattle police car definitely isn’t it. Paris Peralta’s husban...

First Sentence: The letter to Isabel Gibson arrived on a Tuesday, which had always been the unluckiest day of the week. Isabel Gibson had le...