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The Coffee Trader by David Liss

May 25, 2022

The Coffee Trader is an “historical financial thriller” which sounds impossibly dull, but isn’t. The novel takes place in 1659 Amsterdam, a bustling international center of business and home to the first commodities exchange. Miguel Lienzo is a clever trader who recently lost everything on sugar ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction, Books-Mystery & Suspense Tagged With: Amsterdam, historical fiction, Historical Mystery, Portuguese Jews

The Case of the Reincarnated Client by Tarquin Hall

May 25, 2022

One of my favorite private detectives Vish Puri, also known as “Chubby,” is back in The Case of the Reincarnated Client, the fifth novel in the series.  If you aren’t familiar with India’s “Most Private Investigator” check out these lighthearted novels which take place contemporary Delhi. ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction, Books-Mystery & Suspense Tagged With: India, Private Investigator

The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish

April 12, 2022

I love it when a novel inspires me to conduct extra research, and in The Weight of Ink there was plenty of material which demanded further investigation, like The Great Plague of London, Spinoza, and Shakespeare’s Dark Lady. Now you may prefer to read a book that requires no additional effort on ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction Tagged With: British history, Jewish history, London, Portuguese Jew

The Eyes of the Queen and The Queen’s Men by Oliver Clements

March 13, 2022

  The historical thrillers by Oliver Clements are set in the early, shaky years of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign, where the old religion is not completely dead, and Elizabeth’s Catholic cousin Queen Mary makes mischief from her prison in Scotland. The Agents of the Crown series features the ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction, Books-Mystery & Suspense Tagged With: British Mystery, Elizabethan history, Queen Elizabeth I

The Maid by Nita Prose

February 19, 2022

Molly is the maid every hotel wishes they had on their payroll. Obsessively tidy, punctual, and methodical, Molly cleans each room at the Regency Grand Hotel as if it is a surgical theater.  “Your room has been returned to a state of perfection,” she cheerfully exclaims as she finishes her ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction, Books-Mystery & Suspense

Penny & Connelly & Osman

January 6, 2022

Louise Penny the Madness of Crowds As soon as I finished the seventeenth Chief Inspector Gamache novel, I complained to anyone who would listen! For those of you who missed my rants----The Madness of Crowds is terrible. If you haven’t read the Gamache novels, the earlier ones are wonderful and ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction, Books-Mystery & Suspense Tagged With: British Mystery, Canadian Mystery, Gamache, Harry Bosch, Louise Penny, Michael Connelly, Police procedural

The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe

November 19, 2021

The Best of Everything

How Rona Jaffe came to write her bestseller The Best of Everything (published 1958) is almost as dramatic as the book itself. The young Jaffe had recently quit her first job at Fawcett Publications to write full time. She had a few stories published in national publications but was still living ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction Tagged With: 1950s, New York City, working women

An Extravagant Death by Charles Finch

November 19, 2021

An Extravagant Death

In 1878, the aristocratic private detective Charles Lenox travels to America on a mission for Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in An Extravagant Death by Charles Finch. Not long after his arrival, a debutant dies under mysterious circumstances, and  Lenox is abruptly summoned from New York City to ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction, Books-Mystery & Suspense Tagged With: British Mystery, Historical Mystery, Mystery novel

Snowdrift by Helene Tursten

November 19, 2021

Snowdrift

In Snowdrift by Helene Tursten, Embla Nyström, a Detective Inspector with the Gothenburg, Sweden, police force, investigates the deaths of two well-known criminals  and a cold case involving a childhood friend. Her colleague is a handsome detective and his police dog. Although I still miss Irene ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction, Books-Mystery & Suspense Tagged With: Nordic crime fiction, Scandinavian crime fiction

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

November 19, 2021

The Thursday Murder Club

The Thursday Murder Club kept appearing on various “recommended for you” lists, but I initially resisted buying it as it sounded rather insipid, like those mystery novels where the amateur sleuth’s cat is a major character. In Richard Osman’s novel, four residents of a posh British retirement ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Books-Fiction, Books-Mystery & Suspense Tagged With: British Mystery, British novels, Mystery novel

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