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"ON CRIME" - Columns by Hallie Ephron, published in the Boston Globe
Hallie Ephron is the award-winning crime fiction book reviewer for the Boston Globe. Her review column "On Crime," appears the last Sunday of each month in the "Ideas" section of the Sunday Globe.
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Recent reviews
Artful homage offers Tey and sympathy - July, 2008
AN EXPERT IN MURDER (Nicola Upson), WHERE MEMORIES LIE (Deborah Crombie), THE LIKENESS (Tana French)
In baffling case, Aix marks the spot - June, 2008
CEZANNE'S QUARRY (Barbara Corrado Pope), EIGHT IN A BOX (Raffi Yessayan), THE FOREIGNER (Francie Lin)
Chasing white rabbits, and long lost truths - May, 2008
ISLAND OF LOST GIRLS (Jennifer McMahon), JUDGMENT DAY (Sheldon Siegel), HEAD WOUNDS (Chris Knopf)
A house called Wit's End is only the beginning - April, 2008
WIT'S END (Karen Joy Fowler), DELUSION (Peter Abrahams), CHEATING AT SOLITAIRE (Jane Haddam)
Sifting through a surfeit of clues - March, 2008
FRIEND OF THE DEVIL (Peter Robinson), AN INCOMPLETE REVENGE (Jacqueline Winspear), JUDAS HORSE (April Smith)
A return to Oz, marred by a wicked killing - February, 2008
MOONLIGHT DOWNS (Adrian Hyland), OF BLOOD AND SORROW (Valerie Wilson Wesley), UNKNOWN MEANS (Elizabeth Becka)
Sleuths bearing wrenches, old wounds - January, 2008
BLUE HEAVEN (C. J. Box), THE BOOK OF OLD HOUSES (Sarah Graves), THE FAULT TREE (Louise Ure)
Sleuths stuck in their own tracks - December, 2007
PERSON OF INTEREST (Theresa Schwegel), ABSOLUTION (Caro Ramsay), SOULS OF ANGELS (Thomas Eidson)
Murder most macabre - November, 2007
LAST RITUALS (Yrsa Sigurdardóttir), The Darkest Evening of the Year (Dean Koontz), Hidden Moon (James Church)
There's no place like home--fortunately - October, 2007
DOWN RIVER (John Hart), LITTLE FACE (Sophie Hannah), MISSING WITNESS (Gordon Campbell)
Farewell my lovelies - September, 2007
NIGHT WORK (Steve Hamilton), A KILLER'S KISS (William Lashner), SECOND SHOT (Zoë Sharp)
In a refreshing debut, a PI who's his own Greek chorus - August, 2007
THE CHICAGO WAY (Michael Harvey), AMMUNITION (Ken Bruen), BURNT HOUSE (Faye Kellerman)
Uneasy times in Exile - July, 2007
DEAD CONNECTION (Alafair Burke), KILLER WEEKEND (Ridley Pearson), REDUCED CIRCUMSTANCES (Vincent O'Neil)
Sherlocks in sheep's clothing - June, 2007
THREE BAGS FULL: A SHEEP DETECTIVE STORY (Leonie Swann), ONLY THE CAT KNOWS (Marian Babson), LITTLE TINY TEETH (Aaron Elkins)
Through a camera lens, darkly - May, 2007
GENERATION LOSS (Elizabeth Hand), THE BIG GIRLS (Susanna Moore), WHAT'S SO FUNNY? (Donald Westlake)
Woods that are lovely, dark, deep. But mostly dark - April, 2007
THE WOODS (Harlan Coben), THE NAMING OF THE DEAD (Ian Rankin), THE MISSING (Chris Mooney)
Armed with vision and fashion chic, sleuths dig in - March, 2007
BLIND SPOT (Terri Persons), PAST PERFECT (Susan Isaacs), MURDER ON THE ILE SAINT-LOUIS (Cara Black)
What puts the 'killer' in 'thriller'? - February, 2007
THE TRIUMPH OF THE THRILLER: HOW COPS, CROOKS, AND CANNIBALS CAPTURED POPULAR FICTION (Patrick Anderson), THE GRAVE TATTOO (Val McDermid), THE STRANGLER (William Landay)
Evil schemes: From Western Mass. to the White House - January, 2007
THE ARMAGEDDON PROJECT (by Tom Sancton), McMANSION (Justin Scott), THE KILLING MOON (Chuck Hogan)