Shady Hollow
Shady Hollow and Cold Clay by Juneau Back Shady Hollow is the first in a mystery series by Juneau Black, the pen name of authors Jocelyn Cole and Sharon Nagel. […]
Royal Spyness Mysteries
Royal Spyness Mystery Series by Rhys Bowen Having a nasty cold has some drawbacks, but the opportunity to stay in bed all afternoon with deliciously silly mystery is not one […]
Rogue Lawyer
Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham His office is an SUV, but he ain’t no Lincoln Lawyer. Mystery readers will get the reference to Michael Connelly’s excellent Lincoln Lawyer series featuring […]
Red Notice
Red Notice, A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder Bill Browder, a mild-mannered financier working in Russia, gets on the wrong […]
Racing the Light
Racing the Light an Elvis Cole and Joe Pike novel by Robert Crais LA based private investigator Elvis Cole takes on a seemingly innocuous missing person case in the nineteenth […]
Dissolution
Dissolution by C.J. Sansom My cousin Harriet introduced me to the Matthew Shardlake Tudor mysteries. If you liked Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy, you’ll enjoy these as well. Unlike many […]
People of the Book
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks Geraldine Books, the author of March and Year of Wonders, has written another inspired work of historical fiction. People of the Book is […]
Pentecost and Parker
Pentecost and Parker Mystery Series by Stephen Spotswood Not new, but new to me is the Pentecost and Parker mystery series by Stephen Spotswood. Set in the 1940s, Willowjean “Will” […]
Overboard
Overboard by Sara Paretsky I promised that I wouldn’t read another novel featuring V.I. Warshawski, author Sara Paretsky’s busybody, sanctimonious detective. But character flaws aside, Paretsky can move a plot […]
Nordic Noir
Nordic Noir, a selection At the end of July, The New York Times Book Review featured a guide to Nordic noir. Categorized by country (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden), I […]
My Sister, The Serial Killer
My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Whatever you think this book is about– and with such a title the possibilities are many—it’s not. Yes, Sister does bump off […]
Magpie Murders
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz Magpie Murders is a classic whodunit by the television screenwriter who created PBS favorites, Midsomer Murders and Foyle’s War. Susan Ryeland is an editor at […]
Killed at the Whim of a Hat
Killed at the Whim of a Hat by Colin Cotterill In Killed at the Whim of a Hat, the first novel in the Jimm Juree series, Jimm and her kooky […]
Lethal White
Lethal White by Robert Galbraith BOOK 4 Lethal White is the fourth book in the Cormoran Strike/Robin Ellacott series by Robert Galbraith, a/k/a/ J.K. Rowling. Since Robin’s wedding to her […]
Just One Evil Act
Just One Evil Act by Elizabeth George The aristocratic D.I. Thomas Linley and the slightly grubby Det. Sgt. Barbara Havers make an unusual but highly effective investigative team, but in […]