I have been reading a lot of 1890's - 1910's mysteries lately and found myself getting a little bored, so when BooksforaBuck published a new hard-boiled detective novel I decided to check it out since the publisher has a small but well written catalog of mystery and detective ebooks.

I like hard-boiled detective novels like those of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. I am not a sophisticated reader of detective novels but I know what I like and many of the newer hard-boiled characters often leave me cold. So I was a bit leery of trying "Dead On" a new hard-boiled detective ebook by Michael Paulson. I need not have worried, Dead On is a good read - sure there were some loose ends with some characters but the book kept me turning the pages right to the end and I never felt cheated. To me that signifies a good book. But I liked the book was better than that: so I hope author Michael Paulson writes some more novels staring his hard boiled character "Deacon Bishop" - I'll buy them.

Dead On by Michael Paulson is also available from Fictionwise.