The Coffee Trader
The Coffee Trader by David Liss The Coffee Trader is an “historical financial thriller” which sounds impossibly dull, but is not. The novel takes place in 1659 Amsterdam, a bustling […]
Bruno, Chief of Police
Bruno, Chief of Police Mystery Series by Martin Walker Reading Martin Walker’s novels set in the Périgord region of France IS almost as good as being there. Although nominally murder […]
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman If you are a Bridgerton or Georgette Heyer fan, then you will enjoy The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies, a Regency […]
The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken
The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken by Tarquin Hall (Book 3) In the third of the excellent Vish Puri series, India’s Most Private Investigator finds himself immersed in the […]
The Case of the Missing Servant
The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall (Book 1) Vish Puri, known to close friends and family as Chubby, is a portly, Punjabi private investigator in Delhi. In […]
Night Watch
Night Watch by Linda Fairstein (Book 14) Fairstein’s well-oiled formula is crime solving amid the historical, political, or cultural landscape of NYC (entertaining and educational.) In Night Watch, Alexandra Cooper, […]
Blood in the Water
Blood in the Water by Jane Haddam (book 27 of 30) Jane Haddam’s latest novel featuring ex-FBI agent turned private investigator Gregor Demarkian is enjoyable, but not her best work. […]
Believing the Lie
Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George I have (almost) forgiven Elizabeth George for killing one of my favorite characters a few books ago. And when I read her latest Inspector […]
Gone Tomorrow
Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child See Jack visit Manhattan. See Jack enjoy fine cuisine; see Jack shop on Madison Avenue. See pigs fly. This is not Jack Reacher’s Manhattan. Most […]
The Appeal
The Appeal by Janice Hallett The Appeal, an epistolary novel, opens with a memo from a lawyer asking two of his colleagues to review a case file. “It is best […]
Guilt by Association
Guilt by Association by Marcia Clark I also read the new mystery from first time novelist Marcia Clark (yes, that Marcia Clark.) Marcia is not the most gifted writer (first […]
Standing in the Shadows
Standing in the Shadows a DCI Banks novel by Peter Robinson Alice Poole was murdered in 1980; the case remains unsolved. Decades later, DCI Banks and his team investigate the […]
Snowdrift
Snowdrift by Helene Tursten In Snowdrift, 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 […]
Snow
Snow by John Banville a/k/a Benjamin Black About a decade ago, acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville wrote the first in a series of literary crime novels under the pseudonym Benjamin […]
QE II Mystery Novels
The QE II Novels by S.J. Bennett S.J. Bennett has written four (to date) novels featuring that amateur detective Queen Elizabeth II. As you can imagine, the novels are very […]