An enjoyable post-WWI mystery… Although I had read a couple of titles in Alyssa Maxwell’s Gilded Age series, I had not read any of the books in her Lady and Lady’s Maid series. So I was happy to receive an advance review copy of the latest title in the series, A Sinister Service, from the […]
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A really really good political spy novel, with thriller-ish moments… I don’t read many “thrillers” and I probably would have given Philip Kaplan’s Night in Tehran a miss, except that I read the author’s biography and got intrigued. It turns out Kaplan spent 27 years in the US Foreign Service, rising to the rank of
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An engaging historical mystery… I am a big fan of historical mysteries, and I have had my eye on EM Powell’s books for a while. But I had not yet read any of them. So I was happy to be offered a review copy of the most recent title in Powell’s Aelred Barling/Hugo Stanton series,
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A very nice police procedural set in Kuala Lumpur… I’m a fan of police procedurals, and also of mysteries set in interesting locations. So I was glad to receive an advance review copy of 21 Immortals, which is set in Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia, and features Major Crimes Inspector Mislan Latif. And I liked this
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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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I really hope this is the first in a series! Murder in Old Bombay is author Nev March’s first mystery, and it’s a very nice one. Set during the British Raj, the book weaves seamlessly into and around the real events, locations and attitudes of the time. The story begins while Captain Jim Agnihotri
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a really nice series starter…. This is my first book by Tara Moss, who has previously written another series featuring a protagonist with a Canadian/Australian background, much like Moss’s own. The War Widow, however, appears to be the start of a new historical series for Moss, and I hope that’s the case, because I enjoyed
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a very nice, tightly written, series starter… I’m a big fan of police (or PI) procedurals and often not so much a fan of noir. But I really liked Max Tomlinson’s blend of the two in Vanishing in the Haight. First, I very much enjoyed Tomlinson’s writing, which I found to be crisp and concise
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Some things to think about while also solving a mystery… SJ Rozan tackles two difficult topics in her most recent Lydia Chin/Bill Smith entry, The Art of Violence. The first, as might be guessed from the book’s title, is the nature of art – or maybe the nature of Art, **with** the capital letter. And
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I loved this early aviation mystery…. I’ve been noticing the books in the Lady Hardcastle series, by TE Kinsey, for quite a while, both because I like historical mysteries, and because I like the covers. Sorry – I do know I’m not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but – there it is,
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