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.
Genre: mystery
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.
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s A Royal Pain
1930s London and Lady Georgiana – thirty-fourth in line to the throne – has a lot on her plate, but little in her cupboards, when her new houseguest, the Bavarian princess, shows up.
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s Her Royal Spyness
Broke and fleeing an engagement, Lady Georgiana must clear her family name, when an arrogant Frenchman trying to swipe her family estate winds up dead in her bathtub,
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s Evan Only Knows
On a visit to his mother with his new fiancée, Constable Evan Evans is challenged to find not the stone-cold killer he expected but a scared young man who swears his innocence.
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s Evans to Betsy
Evans and a psychic barmaid are on the trail of the missing director of the recently opened Sacred Grove New Age Center.
Book Review: Lisa Bork’s For Richer, For Danger
When the given name of Noelle’s mother traces back to a dead girl, Jolene Parker and her deputy husband Ray are devastated, even as Jolene races to find her true identity.