"… Lovell’s Thomas Martindale is a self-styled sleuth who is a regular guy, and therein lies his charm. Lovell pokes fun at university high jinx using the search committee as his vehicle, even as Martindale is getting himself into a series of scrapes that his erstwhile cop girlfriend or his spy buddy have to extricate him from. Life seems to get even more complicated until the last hole that Martindale gets himself into. Lovell lets the reader hang, presumable to follow up in the next mystery. A great read for a rainy day!”
--Shelley
Glodowski,
The Midwest Book Review
“This book … continues Lovell’s study of an amateur
sleuth who would rather concentrate on his university teaching career,
but terrible events, including murder, have a way of insinuating themselves
into Martindale’s life…”
--Dan Hays
Statesman Journal
“[Searching for Murder] … is a gripper…. As
I read it, I wondered how you were going to weave what I thought was a
subplot into the murder. I will never wonder again. Masterful job! And
you left me hooked waiting for the next Thomas Martindale novel—so
please hurry!”
--John Byrne, president emeritus
Oregon State University
“…But it’s how all of these topics come together that
distinguish Lovell the author from Lovell the journalist. In a typical
reporter’s hands, the more than half-dozen different topics would
likely become a number of different stories. Lovell, the author, however,
winds them all together into one cohesive whole.”
--Barton Grover Howe,
Newport News-Times