Book Review: Josh Lanyon’s Fair Play
It’s an affront to Elliot Mills on both levels, and he’ll do everything he can to discover who is willing to kill his father to prevent him from publishing his memoirs.
Genre: mystery
Book Review: Simon R. Green’s Dead Man Walking
A rogue agent has come in from the cold and wants to spill his secrets, and Ishmael Jones is sent to ascertain his real identity only to fall into a menacing series of incidents.
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.
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