Book Review: Frances and Richard Lockridge’s A Pinch of Poison
At a swanky rooftop restaurant in New York, a pair of husband-and-wife sleuths must find out who spiked a woman’s drink with murder.
Genre: mystery
Book Review: Jacqueline Winspear’s An Incomplete Revenge
Maisie Dobbs travels to Kent to investigate a series of fires, a family of Dutch bakers who were killed during WWI in a zeppelin attack and the theft of some silver.
Book Review: James Lee Burke’s Light of the World
Sadist and serial killer Asa Surrette has escaped prison and is after Alafair, Dave Robicheaux’s daughter. He’s not happy about a series of damning articles Alafair has written…
Book Review: Steven Saylor’s The Venus Throw
On a chill January evening in 56 B.C., an Egyptian ambassador and a eunuch priest seek out Gordianus the Finder whose specialty is solving murders, but the ambassador, a philosopher named Dio, has come to ask for something Gordianus cannot give—help in staying alive. Before the night is out, he will be murdered.
Book Review: Steven Saylor’s Catilina’s Riddle
Rome is divided between Cicero and Catilina in the consular elections, and Cicero pulls Gordianus the Finder out of retirement to find the dirt on Catilina. In this cloak-and-dagger political struggle, Gordianus wonders about the truth of Catilina until a headless corpse ominously appears on his farm.
Book Review: Maggie Sefton’s Close Knit Killer
A veteran con man who defrauded countless Fort Connor residents shows up in and everyone—including the House of Lambspun knitters—is up in arms, especially Barbara. Released for good behavior, he’s back to ruin more lives until he’s found dead in his car.
Book Review: Ian Rankin’s A Good Hanging
An omnibus of twelve short stories in the Detective Inspector Rebus mystery series revolving around an Edinburgh detective.
Book Review: Craig Johnson’s As the Crow Flies
Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire’s daughter, Cady, is getting married in two weeks, and the wedding locale arrangements have just gone up in smoke signals.
Book Review: Frances and Richard Lockridge’s Murder Out of Turn
Mr. and Mrs. North have invited their closest friends—an ex-aviator, a mysterious doctor, and New York Police Department’s own Lt. William Weigand—to join them on this glittering retreat, but the joviality ends when Weigand finds Helen Wilson lying across the path, a knife buried in her neck. A member of the group surely killed her, and unless the Norths act quickly, the murderer will strike again.
Book Review: Craig Johnson’s Hell is Empty
Raynaud Shade, a dangerous sociopath who confessed to murdering a boy ten years ago, is leading the FBI and Walt through a blizzard to the burial site.