It’s hard to know quite how to describe <em>The Pig Trilogy </em> by Joseph Caldwell. It’s part cozy mystery, part comedy, part something… In any case, I enjoyed it a lot, although I wouldn’t pay full price for the box set (usually $16.49), or pay for the titles individually (also quite expensive). But now you […]
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Holmes and Watson in Egypt – what a treat… Nicholas Meyer has been “editing” the posthumous memoirs of John H Watson, MD, for decades, albeit rather sporadically, starting with The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, which came out in 1974, and won a Gold Dagger Award. Now he’s come out with a fifth rip-roaring Holmes and Watson tale,
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I’ve read and liked several books in Vaseem Khan’s Baby Ganesh Agency Investigations series, but haven’t yet read the first book in his Persis Wadia series, Midnight at Malabar House – even though, per SYKM, it won the 2021 Historical Dagger. And now here is the second in the series, The Dying Day, already on
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For those of you who aren’t familiar with Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited (KU) program, it’s a monthly subscription program that lets you borrow books for free (other than the subscription fee, of course), read them, and return them. Until recently, you could be reading 10 KU books at a time, but that number has now gone
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What a fun, fun book… The Sherlock Holmes stories were some of the first mysteries I graduated to after Encyclopedia Brown and Nancy Drew, and I loved them. But I’ve always felt that a lot of Holmes pastiches (Laurie R King’s Mary Russell series aside) fall a little flat. So I was very pleasantly surprised
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I’ve really enjoyed Chris Ewan’s Good Thief’s Guide series, about a mystery writer and professional thief who bounces around Europe and gets involved in some dicey and humorous situations. Right now, all five of the series titles (Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Vegas, Venice) are available in an omnibus in the UK, which has just dropped to
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The Univesity of Chicago offers one book each month for free. IMO, they’ve ranged from awesome to kind of odd, but always have provoked a bit of thought. This month’s book (Nov 2021) is Consumed: Food for a Finite Planet by Sarah Elton, which appears to be pretty much what you might guess from the
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The Maggie Sullivan Mysteries Books 1-4 is pretty much what it says it is – an omnibus of the first four titles in the Maggie Sullivan series by M. Ruth Myers. I’ve read and enjoyed a couple of these, so I’m glad to see the omnibus on sale in both the US ($1.99) and UK
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Slough House is the 7th and most recent (2021) in Mick Herron’s, well, Slough House series. Usually it’s the first book in a series that carries the name of the series – I have no idea why it has taken him seven books ?. Slough House is £0.99 today as part of the UK Kindle
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Although this isn’t technically a mystery, it won a CWA Gold Dagger for non-fiction, and looks quite interesting, especially for folks who like forensic mysteries. Written In Bone: hidden stories in what we leave behind, by Sue Black, is a forensic anthropologist’s view of our body’s bones. Per the blurb: “What we eat, where we
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