Book Review: Ken Bruen’s Purgatory
C 33. A serial killer targeting the scum of Galway, inviting a now-clean Jack Taylor to join him. There’s also a dodgy dot-com billionaire buying up the town.
Genre: mystery
Blog Tour: Mayra Calvani’s The Luthier’s Apprentice
Explore the first book in Mayra Calvani’s Violinist Detective series, The Luthier’s Apprentice, a paranormal fantasy for young adults.
Book Review: John Sandford’s Rules of Prey
A “maddog” murderer is terrorizing the Cities, killing for the fun of it. But the brilliant Lt. Lucas Davenport will be an adversary worthy of his genius.
Book Review: Louise Penny’s The Brutal Telling
A stranger is found murdered in the bistro in Three Pines, only…that’s not where he was killed and the trail to find his killer seems to lead to Olivier, raising too many questions.
Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s The Widow’s Tale
Dame Frevisse is embroiled in political intrigue when she aids a widow who is holding on to secret information that could be damaging to the lords closest to the king.
Book Review: Louise Penny’s The Cruelest Month
A decision to celebrate Easter with a séance at the new B&B ends with one dead of fright and requires Chief Inspector Armand Gamache to face his own ghosts as well as theirs.
Book Review: Louise Penny’s A Rule Against Murder
Chief Inspector Gamache must unearth secrets long buried and hatreds hidden behind polite smiles when fa family reunion ends in murder.
Book Review: Louise Penny’s A Fatal Grace
Not even death by electrocution can make anyone like CC de Poitiers. It takes Chief Inspector Armand Gamache digging beneath the village’s surface to find secrets long buried.
Book Review: Anne Perry’s A Christmas Hope
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library A Christmas Hopeby Anne Perry historical mystery in a hardcover edition that was published by Ballantine Books on November 12, 2013 and has 197 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Death in the Devil’s Acre, Cardington Crescent, Silence in Hanover Close, Bethlehem Road, The Cater Street Hangman, Callander Square, Paragon Walk, Resurrection Row, Rutland Place, Farriers’ Lane, Bluegate Fields, Midnight at Marble Arch, Dark Tide RisingEleventh in Anne Perry’s Christmas Stories historical mystery series and set in Monk’s Victorian world of 1868, although Monk doesn’t appear in this. My Take It’s a bleak existence, attending parties for the sake of social and business advancement. Things get out of hand, however, and everything in Claudine’s world is overturned. And we encounter the double standards and the huge preference for appearance over character that are so disgusting in a society. People’s prejudices and expectations condemn another, mostly because it’s easier. Don’t want to rock the boat, do we? […]
Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s The Hunter’s Tale
When the vicious Sir Ralph Woderove is found murdered near his estate, Dame Frevisse finds that the evil that men do sometimes does live after them.