Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s Royal Blood
The penniless Lady Georgiana Rannoch is off to Transylvania to represent the royals at a wedding. Only poison and blood threaten to drain the nuptial festivities.
Genre: mystery
Book Review: Ken Bruen’s A White Arrest
Roberts and Brant are in hot water and need a “white arrest”, a major catch to whitewash all their past sins and deliver them, if not to paradise, at least to a better beat.
Book Review: Elizabeth George’s A Traitor to Memory
Their careers on the line, Inspector Lynley, DCs Havers, and Nkata must untangle the secrets and passions of a family history concealing the truth behind a horrific crime.
Book Review: Anne Perry’s Callander Square
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 Callander Squareby Anne Perry historical mystery in a paperback edition that was published by Fawcett Books on December 12, 1985 and has 256 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, Paragon Walk, Resurrection Row, Rutland Place, Farriers’ Lane, Bluegate Fields, Midnight at Marble Arch, A Christmas Hope, Dark Tide RisingSecond in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series set in Victorian London and revolving around a police inspector and his wife. My Take Each of the murders revolves around babies while the instigator is sex. It’s an interesting look at the double standards of the times and the expectations of the wives’ behaviors as most of the families on the square are torn apart. Expectations and beliefs are torn asunder although, I suspect, several of the women affected end up being much happier. I did rather enjoy Reggie having his […]
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s Evan’s Gate
When Constable Evan Evans starts renovations on the shepherd’s cottage, he finds the decades-old skeleton of a child. Then another child goes missing today.
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s Royal Flush
It’s scandalous, but Lady Georgie is desperate for work and tries housecleaning and hired companion before being sent home on a secret mission for Queen and Scotland Yard.
Book Review: Laura Lippman’s Charm City
I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Charm Cityby Laura Lippman mystery, private investigator in a paperback edition that was published by Avon Publications on October 1, 1997 and has 304 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include The Girl in the Green Raincoat, Baltimore Blues, Butchers Hill, In Big Trouble, Games Creatures PlaySecond in the Tess Monaghan mystery series set in Baltimore, Maryland and revolving around a former journalist turned private detective. My Take The primary theme is one of betrayal. Betrayal of one’s ethics and of friends. Using and manipulating friends to help is one thing; doing it to achieve one’s personal goals is another. A preponderance of the latter weighs very heavily in Charm City from a battering of journalistic ethics, making that career leap, destruction of lives to maintain past secrets, and hiding one’s primal enjoyment of the kill. Most of which can be traced to one man’s pride. Lippman keeps the action moving forward as Tess tells the story with some of my guesses teetering wildly […]
Book Review: Anne Perry’s The Cater Street Hangman
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 The Cater Street Hangmanby Anne Perry historical mystery in a Kindle edition that was published by Fawcett Books on October 12, 1998 and has 288 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, Callander Square, Paragon Walk, Resurrection Row, Rutland Place, Farriers’ Lane, Bluegate Fields, Midnight at Marble Arch, A Christmas Hope, Dark Tide RisingFirst in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt historical mystery series set in Victorian England in 1881. My Take I can’t believe that in all the years I’ve been reading this series, I missed the very beginning. I’m not sure if I’m not as impressed with this start because I’m bringing expectations to it or if it’s simply the typical rough start authors sometimes have. I have enjoyed getting the baseline, however. What assholes men of the time were! A woman is killed and that automatically means she is immoral!?? Then there’s […]
Book Review: Peter Tremayne’s The Dove of Death
Attacked by a pirate vessel, the captain of an Irish ship and a prince, are murdered. Fidelma of Cashel and Brother Eadulf are determined to bring the killers to justice…
Book Review: Vicki Doudera’s A House To Die For
Her controlling aunt is dying with one final demand. It seems a simple deal, but trouble is brewing as an obscure restriction scuttles the sale just as the buyer is found dead.