Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Dead Water
A local spring believed to have miraculous healing properties is enriching many of the local residents until Miss Emily Pride inherits the place and forbids the promotions.
Genre: detective mystery
Book Review: Martha Grimes’ The Knowledge
In The Knowledge, the Scotland Yard detective nearly meets his match in a Baker Street Irregulars-like gang of kids and a homicide case that reaches into east Africa.
Book Review: Jill Paterson’s Lane’s End
The murder of an uninvited guest at a cocktail party uncovers a maze of twisted stories that Fitzjohn must follow to solve his case, but he is not prepared for the spiralling perplexity his quest creates.
Book Review: Alex Grecian’s Lost and Gone Forever
Inspector Walter Day has been missing for a year, kidnapped, it’s thought, by Jack the Ripper. Ex-Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith set up his own PI agency and spends his time searching as Claire grieves.
Book Review: Louise Penny’s Kingdom of the Blind
A complete stranger has named Armand Gamache as an executor of her will with some truly wild bequests. Then a body is found…
Book Review: Charles Todd’s The Black Ascot
A tip from an ex-convict seems intrigues Inspector Ian Rutledge: Alan Barrington is a suspect in murder and has evaded capture for ten years. It’s possible capturing him can save Rutledge’s job.
Book Review: Josh Lanyon’s Fair Chance
It’s one final game of cat and mouse, as Elliot Mills comes face-to-face with the Sculptor’s partner in evil when his partner, Special Agent Lance Tucker goes missing.
Book Review: James Lee Burke’s Robicheaux
Depressed and alone, Dave Robicheaux, needs a cause. Especially after he falls off the wagon and may have murdered the man who took Molly’s life.
Book Review: Christopher Fowler’s Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart
Bryant and May are on the case when a cemetery becomes the scene of a crime and secrets — and bodies — arise while the Tower ravens disappear.
Book Review: Ben Aaronovitch’s The Hanging Tree
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library The Hanging Treeby Ben AaronovitchIt is part of the , series and is a detective mystery, urban fantasy in Paperback edition that was published by DAW Books on January 31, 2017 and has 292 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Midnight Riot, Moon Over Soho, Whispers Under Ground, Broken Homes, Foxglove Summer, “The Furthest Station”, Lies Sleeping, False Value, “What Abigail Did That Summer”Sixth in the PC Peter Grant urban fantasy-detective mystery series (a.k.a., the Rivers of London series) set in London and revolving around a magic division of the police, in particular one police constable learning the trade, the magic one. A character’s color or race never seem to impact me much, and it wasn’t until this story — the sixth!! — that it dawned on me that some might want to know — and revel — in a story in which a black man is the hero. So take it away, Police Constable Peter Grant… My […]