Book Review: J.D. Robb’s Holiday in Death
Lieutenant Eve Dallas discovers that a ritualistic serial killer’s victims are traced to New York’s most posh dating service, Personally Yours.
Genre: mystery
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Death and the Dancing Footman
With the notion of bringing together the most bitter of enemies for his own amusement, a bored, mischievous millionaire throws a house party. As a brutal snowstorm strands the unhappy guests, the party receives a most unwelcome visitor: death and Inspector Roderick Alleyn must step in to decipher who at the party is capable of cold-blooded murder…
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Surfeit of Lampreys
A young New Zealander’s first contact with her English gentry friends in London is the body of Lord Wutherford – with a meat skewer through the eye. The Lampreys had hoped for cash from Uncle Gabriel, instead Chief Inspector Alleyn has to work out which of them killed him.
Book Review: Josh Lanyon’s Secret at Skull House
Ellery Page is in hot water again as Police Chief Carson’s first-and-only-suspect.! Famed horror author Brandon Abbott announces he’s purchased legendary Skull House and plans to live there permanently. And Ellery and Brandon have history.
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Death at the Bar
A cosy game of darts in a cosy English pub is going well until one of the players dies on the spot. Chief Inspector Alleyn knows it wasn’t the dart that killed him, but the prussic acid someone added to the cut.
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Overture to Death
It’s murder in the little English village, but the two local spinsters, Miss Campanula, the victim, and Miss Prentice, her friend who may have been the intended victim, are not exactly the beloved little old ladies of song and story. But could they have been sufficiently unpleasant to provoke a murderer?
Book Review: Josh Lanyon’s Murder at Pirate’s Cove
Ellery Page is ready for a change, and when he learns he’s inherited a bookstore and a mansion in the quaint seaside village of Pirate’s Cove, it’s full steam ahead. Until he discovers the truth of his inheritance and an enemy is found dead in the bookstore.
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Death in a White Tie
The season had begun. Debutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas, dinners, balls. The blackmailer was planning his strategies, stalking his next victim. And a body is found in the back of a taxi.
Book Review: Agatha Christie’s The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories
It’s an omnibus of nine short stories in the Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Parker Pyne vintage mystery series.
Book Review: Agatha Christie’s Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
Agatha Christie’s Three Blind Mice and Other Stories as an omnibus of nine stories in the vintage mystery genre that includes Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, and Harley Quin.