OMG! (yes really!) After last year's lack of a review at all and the lukewarm one the year before, Publisher's Weekly says some really nice things about Vanished, like...:

"...fierce" and "Richardson continues to develop strong, intriguing plots".

Oh how I squee!

You can read the whole review, if you want to (scroll down about 3/4 of the page) on the Publishers Weekly site.

I can't stop hopping about like a one of Kiplings peas in a saucepan.

I'm copying this from my Recent Reading page because I just can't let it hide in a corner. I love this book that much.

Trigger City, by Sean Chercover (Ray Dudgeon PI mystery #2): First I have to own up that I know Sean and consider him a friend so, yes I'm biased, but... Goddamn is this a good book! I liked the first one, Big City, Bad Blood, a lot and I like this one even more. Sean's already-sharp and noir-lyric writing has gotten even better and his plot is tighter than ever. PI-hero Ray Dudgeon is still messed up and hardheaded, but you have to pull for him, love him, and admire his sense of honor. He's a twenty-first century Sam Spade. This time around Ray gets sucked into dark doings that revolve around the murder of the daughter of a retired Army Intelligence officer, the suicide of her killer, private military contractors, Chinese dissidents, and political corruption. I had the feeling there was some tiny flaw somewhere, but I never could put my finger on it, so hypnotic is Chercover's storytelling. It's a corker of a story, violent and gritty and mesmerizing. Chercover is still the best new PI novelist of the decade.

The downside: it's so good it makes me cry and think I'll never equal it.

I've been looking forward to this experiment. A group of authors are writing and posting reviews at Writers are Readers.com. So far, the reviews are nicely done and by an interesting group. But they have only one SF writer I recognize, so... if you're an author who likes to read, you might consider talking to these folks.

And there's a review of Poltergeist done by Jayne Ann Krentz there. You'll have to ferret it out for yourself though. There are gems to be found if you dig around.