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 […]
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 […]