Book Review: Christopher Fowler’s The Memory of Blood
Bryant and May are confounded by yet more impossible deaths that follow the impossible death of a baby, strangled by a puppet and tossed from a window.
Genre: mystery
Book Review: Jacqueline Winspear’s In This Grave Hour
Britain declares war on Germany and is mobilizing for the battles ahead. But when Maisie stumbles on the deaths of refugees, she suspects the enemy may be closer than they knew.
Book Review: Ian Rankin’s Rather Be the Devil
Rebus just can’t retire, especially when an upstart gangster gets beaten, and it seems to tie into a cold case Rebus is mulling over plus Big Ger Cafferty.
Book Review: Charles Todd’s Racing the Devil
Fulfilling a pledge made before the Battle of the Somme, five officers meet in Paris only to be stalked by a murderous driver, pushing them off the roads, one by one.
Book Review: Anthony Horowitz’s The House of Silk
Sherlock Holmes and Watson follow the twists and turns of this case that begins with a beleaguered art dealer and ends in the corrupt bowels of government.
Book Review: Deborah Crombie’s A Share in Death
Murder stalks the guests at a luxurious Yorkshire time-share, and Duncan Kincaid can’t resist stirring the pot behind the local policemen’s backs.
Book Review: Dorothy L. Sayers’ Striding Folly
An anthology of the last three stories in the Lord Peter Wimsey mystery series that sees Lord and Lady Peter with their family.
Book Review: Craig Johnson’s An Obvious Fact
Walt, Henry, and Vic discover much more than they bargained for when they are called in to investigate a hit-and-run accident near Devils Tower
Book Review: Craig Johnson’s “Eleven/Twenty-Nine”
A brief look-in as Sheriff Walt Longmire defuses a volatile family dispute and enables a change for the better for this dynamic character.
Book Review: Christopher Fowler’s London’s Glory: The Lost Cases of Bryant and May
A combination of eleven short stories, 12.5 in the Bryant and May crime mystery series based in London, and it recaps the first ten books, although it ranges all over time from World War II to today.