Book Review: Ken Bruen’s Blitz
DS Brant is in hot water. CI Roberts’ wife has died. WPC Falls is still trying to navigate her job as a black woman. And “The Blitz” killer is killing cops all over the city.
Genre: mystery
Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s A Play of Lords
Playing spies amongst the contenders for the regency to young King Henry VI, Joliffe and company start to fear for their own lives when men who know too much begin to die.
Book Review: Diana Gabaldon’s Lord John and the Hand of Devils
Three short stories in the historical mystery series about Lord John Grey, an important peripheral character in Gabaldon’s Outlander series. The first two are a blip in his life while the second takes a much longer view.
Book Review: Elizabeth George’s A Place of Hiding
Caught up in murder on the island of Guernsey, Deborah and Simon St. James delve into its dark history and the psyche of someone who may have exacted retribution.
Book Review: Cleo Coyle’s Latte Trouble
There’s trouble brewing when a customer is poisoned and a partner turns up dead, and Clare leaps in to investigate knowing that her employee is innocent.
Book Review: Carolyn G. Hart’s Something Wicked
The local summer stock production is under siege: sabotage, butchered lines, bedhopping. When murder happens, the prosecutor tries to pin it on Max Darling.
Book Review: Cleo Coyle’s Through the Grinder
Business is booming at Clare Cosi’s Village Blend, until her female customers start to die. Lieutenant Quinn is convinced that someone has an axe to grind
Book Review: Anne Perry’s Paragon Walk
I received this book for free from my own shelves in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: my own shelves Paragon Walkby Anne Perry historical mystery in a paperback edition that was published by Ballantine Books on August 12, 1986 and has 248 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon 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, Resurrection Row, Rutland Place, Farriers’ Lane, Bluegate Fields, Midnight at Marble Arch, A Christmas Hope, Dark Tide RisingThird in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Victorian mystery series revolving around Inspector Thomas Pitt and his very curious wife Charlotte. My Take While a young girl is murdered, the emphasis is on how it will affect everyone else socially with a number of the neighbors putting all the blame on the girl. Well, obviously she must have had low morals to have invited rape! How do people actually twist their minds to believe something like this? They are like a snarling pack of dogs. Ooh, that’s rather mean. To the […]
Book Review: Ken Bruen’s The McDead
Just out of prison, Tommy Logan is making a name for himself with the help of his hurley. His latest target is Tony Roberts, brother to one of the meanest cops in London.
Book Review: Peter Tremayne’s The Chalice of Blood
A scholar is found murdered and manuscripts stolen. The abbot insists on Sister Fidelma and Brother Eadulf investigating despite the attempt on their lives and their own problems.