Contemporary mysteries and thrillers ranging from the mid 1900s (plus or minus) to the present time
A wonderfully funny “isolated mansion” mystery… In Farewell My Herring, author LC Tyler has created a thoroughly enjoyable novel that is a wonderful example of the understated British humor that I like so much. And the humor comes writ large via Tyler’s spot-on send-up of the classic “isolated mansion in a snowstorm” trope – nicely […]
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A really enjoyable then-and-now tale… I’m not normally a big fan of romantic suspense, but I do usually like the “parallel stories in different times” theme. So I was happy to receive an advance review copy of Kerry Barrett’s The Smuggler’s Daughter, which has two intertwined storylines – separated in time, but both revolving around
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An investigative journalist goes back to her roots…. I have read and enjoyed a few other books by RL Belsky, so I was happy to be offered a review copy of The Last Scoop, which is the most recent in his newest Clare Carlson series. (The most recent at least until May, when the next
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Red Storm Rising is a bit of an odd-ball among Tom Clancy’s books, not just because it was co-written with Larry Bond and isn’t part of the Jack Ryan series. It’s a stand-alone that details what World War III, between the US and Soviet Union, might have looked like, IF (and it’s a big if),
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A very enjoyable police procedural set in Kuala Lumpur… Having read and really enjoyed the first book in Rozland Mohd Noor’s Inspector Mislan series, I was happy to receive an advance review copy of the second book in the series, DUKE: Inspector Mislan and the Expressway Murders. And I was even happier to find that
I would have loved to have seen more of Peggy… The Postscript Murders is the second in Elly Griffiths’ new series with Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur as the protagonist – although in this enjoyable read, the focus is actually just as much on an unlikely trio of amateur sleuths as it is on DS Kaur.
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Really sad to see this great series coming to an end… I have very much enjoyed Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano series, starting back in the early 2010s when I first discovered it and binge read all of the titles that were already available. After that, of course, I had to wait (not very patiently) as
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Another great title in the Inspector Montalbano series… Note: I’ve been a huge fan of Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano series for years, and I was actually reading an advance review copy of The Other End of the Line when I heard that Camilleri had passed away in July, 2019. The Other End of the Line
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An enjoyable Golden Age mystery with some uncomfortable parallels to today… Readers who are familiar with (and like) the Sir John Appleby series by Michael Innes will be happy to see Hare Sitting Up come out in ebook, courtesy of Agora Books. For others, it may a little harder to figure out just quite how
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A fun and enjoyable fiftieth (!!!) book in this near-future mystery series… I read and enjoyed some of JD Robb’s Eve Dallas near-future mysteries back in the 1990s, when they first came out. But somehow, over the years, I lost track of the series, and didn’t read any more. So I was happy to get
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