The highly entertaining romp continues… At the end of the first book in Beth Revis’ Chaotic Orbits series, Full Speed to a Crash Landing, we find out that protagonist Ada Lamarr is a galaxy-level expert in misdirection and dissimulation. And Ada’s somewhat illicit skills continue to get a mad – and highly entertaining – workout […]
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It’s nice to have a chance to catch up with John Dee again… Having read and really liked the first book in Oliver Clements’ Agents of the Crown series, The Eyes of the Queen, I was happy to receive a review copy of the latest book in the series, The Queen’s Lies, which just recently
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Worth the read, but room for improvement… Off the Air caught my attention as a Tony Hillerman prize-winner, and the blurb sounded interesting too, so I was happy to receive a review copy. For me, however, Off the Air didn’t fully live up to its promise. First, the good. I enjoyed the mystery itself, which
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Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, I enjoyed April Henry’s short 4-book Claire Montrose series. Claire is a DMV clerk in Oregon whose job is to vet vanity license plates, to make sure nothing too rude or nasty is allowed to slip through onto someone’s car. I remember these as kind of classic
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Another Alex Delaware/Milo Sturgis book that’s a real treat… I came late to Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware books, based on a bad assumption on my part: that books featuring a psychologist as a protagonist would necessarily be psychological thrillers, which I’m generally not fond of. However, a few years ago, I was lucky enough to
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A fun airplane or beach book… I tend to think of Jeri Westerson as an author of historical mysteries set in medieval England, since I’ve read and enjoyed many books in her Crispin Guest and Will Somers series. But I’m aware that she writes in other genres too, and was interested to learn that she
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Back to Posadas County… I’ve been a fan of Steven F Havill’s Posadas County mysteries for years, and Perfect Opportunity is the newest in the series. And it’s just as enjoyable as all the previous books. To start with, there’s an off-beat plot that originates with a series of seemingly unconnected incidents – but in
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Over the past year or so, Jessie Mihalik made her readers happy by offering a couple of short fantasy/romance stories for free on her website: Books & Broadswords in early 2023, and then later, in early 2024, Rocks & Rapiers. These were web-serials, both set in the same world, but not really linked other than
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The Running Grave is the seventh and most recent (2023) Cormoran Strike/Robin Ellacott title by Robert Galbraith, which is a pen name for JK Rowling. It’s £0.99 in the UK right now – probably only for a few hours more – so grab it if you want it! Buy at Kindle UK | Kobo UK
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Read it by yourself because you’ll laugh out loud… Some mysteries draw you in with the depth of their plot, and others with the intensity of their action. Books in Donna Andrews’ Meg Langslow series, on the other hand, have good plots and plenty of action, but mostly pull you along because you can’t wait
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