Book Review: Ken Bruen’s Headstone
Evil has many guises and Jack Taylor has seen most of them. But nothing is as bad as an evil coterie named Headstone, who are committing random, insane, violent crimes in Galway, Ireland.
Genre: mystery
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s Evanly Bodies
Evans risks everything to solve the murders and discover what happened to Jamila.
Book Review: Cleo Coyle’s On What Grounds
Clare arrives at work to discover the assistant manager dead in the back of the store, coffee grounds strewn everywhere. And she refuses to accept that it’s an accident.
Book Review: Ken Bruen’s Taming the Alien
DS Brant and his boss, DI Roberts, of the Metropolitan Police are as sleazy and ruthless as the villains they are out to get with an unforgettable crawl through the mean streets of London, Dublin, and New York.
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s Evan Blessed
Constable Evans and Bronwen are planning their wedding until a girl goes missing…followed by Bronwen’s disappearance. Just after a bunker complete with chains and handcuffs is found.
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.
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.