Grave on Grand Avenue

Note: For those who follow my reviews, you know ninety-nine percent of what I review are cozy mysteries. This mystery is not a cozy. It’s somewhere between a cozy and a bit grittier crime fiction. But I feel it will appeal to all mystery readers. Ms. Hirahara has written a gripping story in this seco......more

[URL not allowed] Brought to you by OBS reviewer Jeanie Grave on Grand Avenue is an extremely well-written novel, giving the reader insight into the inner workings of the big-city police departments. Ellie Rush is in her second year as a cop, her first as a bicycle cop. Many of......more

While Ellie is patrolling one of Los Angeles’s premier concert halls she chats with gardener Eduardo Fuentes. Minutes later she finds him lying at the bottom of a staircase, clinging to life and whispering something indecipherable. The father of Xu (pronounced "Chew"), a popular Chinese classical mu......more

I loved the first book of this series, Murder on Bamboo Lane and finally had time to read the second. I have grown attached to Ellie Rush, a bicycle cop in L.A. and her whole family. They are all back and more them in this book. I worked in downtown L.A. for several years and loved that many of the......more