Contemporary mysteries and thrillers ranging from the mid 1900s (plus or minus) to the present time
Another Alex Delaware/Milo Sturgis book that’s a real treat… I came late to Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware books, based on a bad assumption on my part: that books featuring a psychologist as a protagonist would necessarily be psychological thrillers, which I’m generally not fond of. However, a few years ago, I was lucky enough to […]
A review of The Ghost Orchid by Jonathan Kellerman – recently published Read More »
A great second book in the series… As you can see from my review of the first book in Bruce Borgos’ Porter Beck series, The Bitter Past, I really (really) liked it, and that set an insanely high standard for the second book, Shades of Mercy. And Shades of Mercy came very close, and the
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Brunetti books always feel like coming home, even though I don’t live in Venice… In a series with thirty-three books (!!!), one could be forgiven for thinking that it would be hard to keep producing engaging books that draw readers in, while also making them think. But Donna Leon consistently pulls this off (see here
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Back to Posadas County… I’ve been a fan of Steven F Havill’s Posadas County mysteries for years, and Perfect Opportunity is the newest in the series. And it’s just as enjoyable as all the previous books. To start with, there’s an off-beat plot that originates with a series of seemingly unconnected incidents – but in
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More suspense with romance than romance with suspense… Mind Games, by Nora Roberts, is only the second “official” Nora Roberts book that I’ve read, although I’ve read many of the Eve Dallas/In Death mysteries that she has published using her pen name, JD Robb. So I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, but whatever I
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Read this one alone, because you’ll laugh out loud… Simon Brett’s Mrs Pargeter series is my second favorite of his many series. Although sometimes it’s actually my favorite – it all kind of depends on what I’m in the mood for at the moment. But in any case, I was thrilled when Brett picked the
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Originally written in the 1960s; a bit dated now… Although it’s kind of a classic, Love in Amsterdam, by Nicolas Freeling, was published in the early 1960s, and sadly, shows its age a bit. From the time early on when Inspector Van der Valk asks the main suspect whether the victim was a “nymphomaniac”, I
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Michael McGarrity wrote the first twelve books in his Kevin Kerney series quite some time ago, in the 1990s and 2000s, and has only recently returned with two new titles. Head Wounds is the second of these. I was a little surprised to find that Kerney’s late-found son, Clayton Istee, who appears part way through
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Read it by yourself because you’ll laugh out loud… Some mysteries draw you in with the depth of their plot, and others with the intensity of their action. Books in Donna Andrews’ Meg Langslow series, on the other hand, have good plots and plenty of action, but mostly pull you along because you can’t wait
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A fun small town cozy mystery… A Fatal Groove is practically the definition of a cozy mystery, and folks who like cozies should enjoy this second installment in Olivia Blacke’s Record Shop Mysteries series. And I enjoyed it too, although it did have a couple of minor issues, in my opinion. As A Fatal
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