The Boy in the Suitcase
The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis The title is creepier than the book, despite its Nordic crime label. I was expecting something very SVU, but […]
The Sound of Broken Glass
The Sound of Broken Glass by Deborah Crombie. Book 15 Detective Inspector Gemma James and her husband are back on the case. Or rather Gemma is back; hubby Detective Superintendent […]
Elegy for Eddie
Elegy for Eddie: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear (Book 9) Maisie has come a long way since book one of the series which is set in London between […]
Watching the Dark
Watching the Dark by Peter Robinson Former policeman Bill Quinn is shot with a crossbow arrow on the grounds of his retirement community. Six years earlier, nineteen-year-old Rachel Hewitt went […]
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon What if we made a different choice? What if we attended another college, turned left instead of right, called him back, told the […]
The Thursday Murder Club
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (Book 1) This novel kept appearing on various “recommended for you” lists, but I initially resisted buying it as it sounded rather insipid, […]
The Strangler Vine
The Strangler Vine and The Infidel Stain by M.J. Carter In the tradition of Holmes and Watson, Jeremiah Blake, a cynical ex-employee of the British East India Company and William […]
The Forgotten
The Forgotten by David Baldacci The new Baldacci is a to-be-expected page turner. Aunt Betsy has a hunch that there is something fishy in her hometown of Paradise, FL. She […]
I am Half-Sick of Shadows
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley I adored the first novel in the Flavia de Luce series, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. Subsequent novels in […]
Close to Death
Close to Death, a Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery by Anthony Horowitz BOOK 5 Anthony Horowitz novels are more sophisticated than silly, but are excellent, engrossing summer reads. In the Hawthorne […]
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murders
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto Sixty-year-old Vera Wong springs out of bed at 4:30 a.m. each morning. “Late mornings, Vera believes, are only for toddlers […]
The Examiner
The Examiner by Janice Hallett I loved The Examiner, a fiendishly clever epistolary novel. I read the book in a weekend, and was repeatedly flummoxed by the plot’s twists and […]
One Death at a Time
One Death at a Time by Abbi Waxman Romance writer Abbi Waxman (The Bookish Life of Nina Hill) has written a mystery. Twentysomething Natasha Mason and iconic, retired actress Julia […]
Murder Takes a Vacation
Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura Lippman As we swelter in Nashville, a river cruise in France sounds delicious! Unless you are the traveler who discovers the body! Mrs. Blossom, […]
American in Paris Mysteries
American In Paris Mysteries, Colleen Cambridge There is a sub-genre of mystery novels that feature real-life historical figures as crime solvers. Some of these efforts seem a bit of a […]