Mystery

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 […]

The Country Club Murders

The Country Club Murder Mysteries by Julie Mulhern In the first of these novels, set in Kansas City 1975, artist, and unhappy wife Ellison Russell stumbles over a body during […]

How to Choose a Murder Mystery

How to Choose a Murder Mystery Those of us who regularly read crime novels know that despite their down-market reputation, writing an engaging page-turner (I bow to you Michael Connelly) […]

The Silkworm

The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith a/k/a  J.K. Rowling BOOK 2 Yeah! Private investigator Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott are back—as I knew they would be. Galbraith’s first novel […]

Vengeance

Vengeance by Benjamin Black (Book 5) Another atmospheric, literary mystery from Benjamin Black, a/k/a John Banville, the Man Booker Prize-winning Irish novelist. Dour pathologist Quirke and his colleague Detective Inspector […]

A Death in the Small Hours

A Death in the Small Hours by Charles Finch (Book 6) In Finch’s latest novel featuring Victorian gentleman sleuth and Member of Parliament Charles Lenox, Lenox retreats to rural Somerset […]

Dr. Quirke Novels

Dr. Quirke Novels by Benjamin Black Another new to me is the series by Booker Award-winning novelist John Banville writing under the pen name Benjamin Black.  I’m not a huge […]

Detective Joe Sandilands

Detective Joe Sandilands Novels by Barbara Cleverly While in NYC I ran across the 8th novel in the Detective Joe Sandilands series by Barbara Cleverly (Strange Images of Death-yummy!)  How […]

The Mitford Murders

The Mitford Murders by Jessica Fellowes With Mitford mania in perpetual bloom, it was only a matter of time before some enterprising author wrote a mystery series featuring the Mitford […]

The Man Who Died Twice

The Man Who Died Twice: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery by Richard Osman (Book 2) The four crafty seniors from the Coopers Chase retirement village return in the second Thursday […]

The Maid

The Maid by Nita Prose 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 […]

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