Book Review: Elizabeth George’s Playing for the Ashes
I’m the one who’s answerable for my father’s death. It was not my first crime, as you will see, but it is the one my mother couldn’t forgive.
Genre: mystery
Book Review: Patricia Cornwell’s Red Mist
Connections reveal that Fielding’s death and the attempt on Scarpetta are only the beginning of a terrifying terrain of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale.
Book Review: Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers’ Murder Most Medieval: Noble Tales of Ignoble Demises
An anthology of thirteen tales of medieval murder from low to high and with justice in between.
Book Review: Serita Stevens’ Unholy Orders
An assortment of religions through eighteen mysteries ranging from historical to contemporary, Native American to the big three of the religious world.
Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s A Play of Piety
With Bassett ill, the players must find work, and Joliffe finds it in a hospital with the ill-liked Mistress Thorncoffyn who insists someone is trying to kill her.
Book Review: Charles Todd’s The Confession
A dying man confesses that he killed his cousin during the Great War. Then his body is found in the river, and Inspector Ian Rutledge’s only clue is a gold locket.
Book Review: Cleo Coyle’s Murder Most Frothy
Millionaire David Mintzer offers Clare Cosi an all-expenses-paid summer in the Hamptons training his staff. Until an employee turns up dead in David’s bathroom.
Book Review: Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.
Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s A Play of Treachery
While training in spycraft in France, Joliffe learns just how dangerous secrets can be when a member of the duchess’s household is murdered,…
Book Review: Michael Connelly’s The Poet
Denver crime-beat reporter Jack McEvoy specializes in violent death. So when his homicide detective brother kills himself, McEvoy copes in the only way he knows how.