Contemporary mysteries and thrillers ranging from the mid 1900s (plus or minus) to the present time
Another wonderful police procedural from Steven Havill, but with a few location issues… Without sounding too much like a fangirl, I feel I need to disclose that I’ve been in love with Steven F Havill’s Posadas County mysteries for a couple of decades, having binge read all the titles that existed when I discovered the […]
Review of No Accident by Steven F Havill – recently published Read More »
A new direction for paranormal romance author Nalini Singh… I participate in the Mobile Read forums and many of the folks in the romance subforum rave about Nalini Singh’s paranormal romance books. So I was excited when I got a chance to review an advance copy of one of her titles. Then I found out
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Forensics on a famous hiking trail… The Bone Track is the third in Sara E Johnson’s Alexa Glock series, set in New Zealand. Although I haven’t read the first two books, I was interested in The Bone Track both because of Alexa’s forensic science background, and because I have a bit of a thing for
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A heroine with problems, attitude, and smarts… Rhode Island Red is the first in Charlotte Carter’s short three-book mystery series featuring street-smart (and also just plain smart) Nanette Hayes as the protagonist. Nan has a degree from Wellesley in French, with a minor in Music, that, as she describes it, was “scholarship all the way”.
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I’ve been a big fan of Donna Leon’s Commissario Brunetti series for years, ever since picking up some of the early series titles in paperback on a business trip to the UK – and then binge-reading three of them, one after the other, on the two airplane flights home. And in the first couple of
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SJ Rozan’s latest Lydia Chin/Bill Smith title, Family Business, is a wonderful look at New York’s Chinatown, full of atmosphere and a strong sense of place. But it also addresses some complicated topics, starting on a small scale with Lydia’s own family dynamics, including her unstated “don’t ask/don’t tell” bargain with her very Chinese mother
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If I hadn’t already known I was reading an English translation of a French murder mystery, I would have figured it out anyway by the fourth paragraph of The Sleeping Car Murders. That’s the paragraph where Pierre, the railroad employee whose job it is to check over the just-arrived Phocéen train, and thus the man
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Another enjoyable outing for Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis… I only recently started reading Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware/Milo Sturgis series and I’ve really liked the books I’ve read so far. (You can read my review of Kellerman’s currently-most-recent title, Serpentine, here.) And I definitely enjoyed Kellerman’s upcoming series title, City of the Dead, as well.
Review of City of the Dead by Jonathan Kellerman – coming in February, 2022 Read More »
A classic inheritance mystery – set in Japan… Before I read Seishi Yokomizo’s The Inugami Curse, I had previously read one of the few other books of his that have been translated into English, The Honjin Murders. That was a very recognizable classic locked room mystery. (See my review here.) And The Inugami Curse is
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A classic locked room mystery – set in Japan… I’ve read and really liked a few other books from the Pushkin Vertigo line, which, per their website, features “crime writing from across the globe”. So I was happy to receive a review copy of one of their latest titles – an English translation of Seishi
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