Cayce Osborne

Aug 9, 2023 | flipboard.com | Cayce Osborne

1 day ago“Dead and Gone,” by Joanna Schaffhausen (Minotaur) A private eye named Sam Tran is dead, hanged from a tree in a local cemetery, and Chicago P.D. Detective Annalisa Vega catches the case. Tran was once on the job himself, but as it turns out, that’s not the only reason the case is fraught. Vega …

Aug 9, 2023 | crimereads.com | Cayce Osborne |S.A. Cosby

There is comfort in reading a whodunnit led by a talented detective. We know what we’re getting with a Sherlock or a Miss Marple—the next moment of genius is a few paragraphs away, and the villain will be unmasked in the end. But I’m not here to talk about that sort of book. I’m here for the reluctant detectives, the unlucky souls dragged toward clues kicking and screaming. They have better things to do with their time than chasing wayward criminals, but are given no other choice.

Aug 4, 2023 | thebigthrill.org | Mindy Carlson |Vincent Zandri |Josie Brown |Cayce Osborne

Vengeance, Villains, and a Missing ChildBy Mindy CarlsonCandice Fox’s latest novel FIRE WITH FIRE, is a richly crafted story featuring “…a recently fired twenty-one-year-old police rookie and a deeply problematic victim of a botched undercover job…” who are thrown together to solve the cold-case disappearance of five-year-old Tilly Delaney after her parents take over a forensics laboratory and threaten to destroy crucial evidence from pending cases unless the LAPD finds their daughter.

Aug 4, 2023 | thebigthrill.org | Michael Sears |Vincent Zandri |Josie Brown |Cayce Osborne

Africa Scene: Justice on an International ScaleBy Michael SearsDire Tladi’s first novel, Blood in the Sand of Justice, introduced Tolamo Moagi, a former deputy prosecutor at the International Criminal Court. It was acclaimed by reviewers as a thriller one couldn’t put down. In his other life, Dire is a highly accomplished international lawyer and academic and a former UN International Law Commission Chair.

Aug 4, 2023 | thebigthrill.org | Adam Meyer |Vincent Zandri |Josie Brown |Cayce Osborne

Hard Fought RedemptionBy Adam MeyerMichael Koryta, author of the spellbinding new novel, AN HONEST MAN, is really good at answering questions, and even better at asking them. As a former private investigator and journalist—and for the last two decades, a novelist—he is driven by curiosity. “I love going into a world that I know nothing about and learning about that world from unusual and fascinating people,” he says.