A fun thriller in the classic Francis style… I’ve long liked Dick Francis’ books, which always had some sort of tie-in to horses and horse racing. And that made for good, usually somewhat thriller-ish, mysteries. But I liked his books even more for their amazingly detailed backgrounds in a variety of businesses – and most […]
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A pretty good mystery and I really liked the setting… I’ve wanted to try the County Cork series by Sheila Connolly for a while, so I was happy to receive a review copy of Fatal Roots. And although I was a little worried that it might be confusing to start with the eighth and most
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A bit of a departure from a traditional Francis horse-thriller… Felix Francis has done a very nice job continuing his father’s horse-themed mysteries, and if you only read the blurb on its webpage, Iced seems to be just another one of these. Iced is actually a bit more than that, though, as it bounces back
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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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