Book Review: Christopher Fowler’s Full Dark House
A bomb tragically ends the 50-year crime-fighting partnership of Arthur Bryant and John May, and May goes back in time to that first case for clues.
Genre: historical mystery
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s Malice at the Palace
Belinda’s sudden, unexpected return to London throws Georgie into the streets again. With Queen Mary coming to the rescue. She needs someone to to ensure the Princess Marina never hears of her future husband’s past antics!
Book Review: Charles Todd’s A Pattern of Lies
Tragedy still stirs emotions in Cranbourne despite the ruling of accident. Now suspicion and rumor begins to swirl around the village with hostility aimed at the Ashtons; Bess will risk her own life to find the truth.
Book Review: Steven Saylor’s A Mist of Prophecies
It’s a hotbed of intrigues as Pompey and Julius Caesar fight for control of the Republic, and a young seeress staggers then dies in the arms of Gordianus.
Book Review: Jacqueline Winspear’s A Dangerous Place
A brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gilbraltar that spring of 1937 leads Maisie Dobbs into a web of lies, deceit and danger.
Book Review: Steven Saylor’s Last Seen in Massilia
It’s a bloody civil war with Pompey fighting with the city of Massilia against Julius Caesar. Worse Gordianus the Finder is searching for his supposed traitor son, Meto.
Book Review: Steven Saylor’s Rubicon
There’s panic in Rome as Caesar marches on the city, and Gordianus the Finder discovers the body of Pompey’s favorite cousin. He must find the murderer or Pompey will kill his son-in-law.
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s Queen of Hearts
Lady Georgiana Rannoch, 35th in line for the throne, is off to Hollywood, where she must reprise her role as sleuth or risk starring in an too-convincing death scene…
Book Review: Charles Todd’s Hunting Shadows
It’s a question of the letter or the spirit of the law as Inspector Ian Rutledge investigates a string of unrelated murders that began with a wedding.
Book Review: Charles Todd’s An Unwilling Accomplice
World War I battlefield nurse Bess Crawford’s career is in jeopardy when a murder is committed on her watch.