Book Review: Charlaine Harris’ Real Murders
Aurora Teagarden, small town librarian and true crime buff, becomes involved at the center of a murderous story of her own, as members of her book club are targeted in a series of copycat murders.
Genre: mystery
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Singing in the Shroud
All aboard for murder, as the Cape Farewell steams out to sea, carrying a serial strangler who says it with flowers and a little song. It’s be up to Inspector Roderick Alleyn to deal with a collection of neurotic, bombastic, shifty, and passionate passengers at one another’s throats.
Book Review: Dorothy Sayers’ Whose Body?
Lord Peter untangles the ghastly mystery of the corpse, shaved after death, in the bath, naked but for a pair of gold pince-nez.
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s The Death of a Fool
This year’s Mardian Mawris dance includes several sacrifices, and the suspects are numerous. Detective-Inspector Alleyn dances about with various villagers, a close-knit family, and a nutty dowager.
Book Review: J.D. Robb’s Visions in Death
The dead are everywhere with their eyes taken and red ribbons entangling their necks. When a psychic appears to have the details, Lieutenant Eve Dallas accepts help from her only to find the stakes raised when her partner, Dee Peabody is attacked.
Book Review: J.D. Robb’s Divided in Death
In the year 2059, technology and humanity collide and a new computer virus has become the latest form of terrorism. Both sides are willing to kill and Reva Ewing appears to be a stumbling block, one that involves Roarke. It’s the murders that involve Lt Eve Dallas.
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Scales of Justice
A charming English village and a cast of aristocrats reveal the darkness of betrayal with the help of a trout and a fish-eating cat to Chief Detective-Inspector Alleyn.
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Spinsters in Jeopardy
For Inspector Roderick Alleyn, the trip was to be official; for his family, a Mediterranean romp. But a plot torn from the pages of a gothic novel soon engulfed them all. Alleyn’s son was kidnapped. A very wealthy spinster was murdered. And in an eerie chateau, carved out of the Riviera mountainside, Alleyn faced the ultimate jet-set cult.
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Colour Scheme
Even down in New Zealand, war-fueled spy fever is running wild when strange lights and signals being sent out to sea are sighted. There must be a spy in their midst! More mystery arises when one of the health-seekers meets his demise in the mud baths.
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Night at the Vulcan
There’s never a dull moment at the Vulcan, from the leading lady’s liaison to the harassment of an inadequate actress. But vanity and hysterics, suspicion and superstition, brandy and jealousy, are upstaged by a death on opening night.