Cradle of the Deep
A Crime Novel

I enjoyed the author’s 2021 offering Under an Outlaw Moon and this tale, written a year earlier, seemed to offer a similar Bonnie and Clyde style escapade. Bobbi is the girlfriend of a wizened gangster known as ‘Maddog’ Palmieri. Maddog treats everyone appallingly and when he fires his driver, Denny......more

Nothing but quiet wrapped the town, snow crunching under his sneakers, no feeling left in his toes. Going around the side of Grillo’s, the place with no windows down the side and all the hip of a legion hall. A couple of pick-ups sat in the back lot dusted in snow. It’s the sixties, Nixon in the Whit......more

Ok, I’ve got some venting to do here, but in a good way. First off, my review is actually 4 stars, but I gave it 5 because of how far off some of the crap reviews are on this book. To the point I very nearly didn’t bother reading. Thank goodness I checked the pedigree of the reviewer. The cover comp......more

Three stars because this is a poor man’s knockoff of an Elmore Leonard study of fringe underworld denizens…A draft-dodging, driver for a Canadian mobster and his moll steal his “Go Money,” and escape to the Great White North…They’re “fish-out-of-water” and culture clash provides plenty of opportunit......more

This was good, but I felt like the story line could’ve ended much better.......more