A classic cozy with a nice Sherlockian background… Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories were some of the earliest mysteries I remember reading after I “graduated” from the Nancy Drew and Encyclopedia Brown books I read in grade school. And I really liked the Holmes books, so I was happy to receive an advance […]
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I had a chance a while back to read an ARC of the third and most recent title in Garry Disher’s Paul Hirschhausen series, Consolation, and surprised myself by how much I really enjoyed it. You can see my review in this previous post. Now the second title in the series, Peace, is on sale at Kindle
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A wonderful police procedural in remote Australia… Consolation is the first mystery I’ve read by Garry Disher, and I’m glad I did. I received an advance review copy of this title from the publisher, and going in, I didn’t have much idea of what to expect. What I found was a very very nice, tightly
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Based on a recommendation in the Science Fiction/Fantasy thread at the MobileRead forums, I just picked up and read A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher. It’s a young adult title, and I’m not a young adult (!!!), but I do enjoy some YA books from time to time. And this was one of them. Overall
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A wild ride of a thriller, with a few minor flaws… Pushkin Press has made a bit of a business translating foreign-language mysteries into English and I tend to enjoy reading mysteries written from an international point of view. So I was happy to receive an advance reading copy of The Second Life of Inspector
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Enemies at Home is the second in the spin-off Flavia Albia series by Lindsey Davis, where the protagonist is Falco’s adopted daughter, following in her dad’s footsteps as a private informer. I’m not always a fan of spin-off series, but I’ve quite liked this one. And we get cameos from Falco and other characters! Oh
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Magic Shifts and Magic Binds are the 8th and 9th in the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews – if you don’t count any of the novellas and short stories and stuff that weave in between the full length books. Even though I mostly read mysteries, I’ve become a fan of the urban fantasy author
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Open Season is the first title in the really solid (IMO) Joe Gunther police procedural series by Archer Mayor. It is free right now at Kindle US and UK if you want to give the series a try. The early titles in this series used to go on sale a lot, then didn’t for a while,
A bunch of classic Helen MacInnes titles are on sale right now (1/1/2021) for $2.99 each at Kindle and Kobo US. Titles include: Prelude to Terror (Robert Renwick #1), The Hidden Target (RR #2), Cloak of Darkness (RR #3), Neither Five or Three, Snare of the Hunter, Decision at Delphi, The Venetian Affair, Ride a
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Kill the Queen by Jennifer Estep sounds as if it might be a murder mystery, but it’s not. I do read a bit of fantasy/science fiction, and this is actually the first in Jennifer Estep’s recently completed Crown of Shards fantasy trilogy. I got hooked into reading this by the first two sentences in the
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