Book Review: Charles Todd’s A Question of Honor
An horrific truth, a murder kept secret, from Bess Crawford’s life in India. Lying, damning facts that reveal a brutal reality that could have been her own fate.
Genre: mystery
Book Review: Craig Johnson’s Spirit of Steamboat
It’s ghosts of Christmases past in both Walt Longmire’s and Lucian Connally’s lives with a story that takes them back to another Christmas Eve in 1988.
Book Review: Jo Nesbø’s The Bat
Never one to sit on the sidelines, Inspector Harry Hole dives into a murder case only to discover a string of unsolved murders leading to a psychopath who may be onto them.
Book Review: Steven Saylor’s A Murder on the Appian Way
In a Rome torn by riots and pulled apart by rival factions, Gordianus the Finder must uncover the truth about the murder of Publius Clodius, a populist politician whose assassination threatens to destroy the Republic.
Book Review: Steven Saylor’s The House of the Vestals
An anthology of nine short stories with one short story that takes place well before this book’s publication (as #6 in the series) and the other eight taking place between the first and the second in the Roma Sub Rosa ancient Roman mystery series.
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.
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.