Book Review: Elizabeth George’s Deception on His Mind
Working solo, Sgt Barbara Havers must probe the mind of a murderer and a case very close to her own heart and the terrible price people pay for deception.
Genre: mystery
Book Review: Carolyn G. Hart’s Death on Demand
The prime suspect author Elliot Morgan’s murder, Annie Laurance Darling, owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, must clear her name.
Book Review: Anne Perry’s Silence in Hanover Close
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 Silence in Hanover Closeby Anne Perry historical mystery in a paperback edition that was published by Fawcett Books on July 30, 1989 and has 345 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, Bethlehem Road, The Cater Street Hangman, Callander Square, Paragon Walk, Resurrection Row, Rutland Place, Farriers’ Lane, Bluegate Fields, Midnight at Marble Arch, A Christmas Hope, Dark Tide RisingNinth in the Charlotte & Thomas Pitt historical mystery series which finds a cop’s spouse collaborating with her husband in the London of Victorian England. My Take Another excellent tale from Anne Perry with an excellent understanding of the culture, mores, and style of speech for the late 19th century in England. She pulls in such a tangle of misdirected love and keeps the reader hopping as we try to determine who did what only to blow us away at the end. The Story Thomas has been ordered to look back […]
Book Review: Elizabeth George’s In the Presence of the Enemy
The kidnapping of a young girl echoes into the Home Office and DI Lynley and DS Havers may be drawing closer to a grim solution—and to danger—than anyone knows.
Book Review: Anne Perry’s Cardington Crescent
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library Cardington Crescentby Anne Perry historical mystery in a paperback edition that was published by Fawcett Books on April 12, 1988 and has 304 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Death in the Devil’s Acre, Silence in Hanover Close, Bethlehem Road, The Cater Street Hangman, Callander Square, Paragon Walk, Resurrection Row, Rutland Place, Farriers’ Lane, Bluegate Fields, Midnight at Marble Arch, A Christmas Hope, Dark Tide RisingEighth in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series set in late 19th century London. My Take As ever, Perry does a lovely job of recreating the sense of the late 19th century through the dialog and the mores, culture, and styles of the time. The part I don’t understand is why Emily and George and Aunt Vespasia are even staying at the Marches. They all live in London. Why would they be spending weeks at a house where they can’t stand its matriarch or her son?? I also resent the summary on […]
Book Review: Katherine Hall Page’s The Body in the Snowdrift
Pranks, theft, and murder contrive to destroy the Fairchild celebration. That bad feeling Faith Fairchild has only escalates when she learns she may be next.
Book Review: Katherine Hall Page’s The Body in the Attic
A hidden diary from the past reveals horrors that taint the house on Brattle Street even as Tom Fairchild wrestles with a crisis of conscience.
Book Review: Katherine Hall Page’s The Body in the Lighthouse
Sabotage is spreading across the island, protesting the McMansions going up, turning Sanpere into another tourist trap, and Faith gets pulled in to the mysteries.
Book Review: Katherine Hall Page’s The Body in the Bonfire
Patsy Avery has asked Faith to conduct a two-and-a-half week cooking class at the local prep school as a cover to investigate racial attacks on a young black student.
Book Review: Elizabeth George’s Missing Joseph
DI Thomas Lynley and Deborah and Simon St James uncover dark, complex relationships in a village where relationships bring men and women together with passion, grief, or the intention to kill.