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.
Genre: mystery
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.
Book Review: Elizabeth George’s For the Sake of Elena
Dark secrets, multiple identities, and fleeting relationships clutter the investigation into a murdered Cambridge University student who had her own scores to settle.
Book Review: David Lawrence’s Down into Darkness
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.Down into Darknessby David Lawrence mystery in a hardcover edition that was published by Minotaur Books on November 13, 2007 and has 288 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include The Dead Sit Round in a Ring, Cold KillFourth in the mystery series, DS Stella Mooney, set in modern-day London where Stella is struggling with a serial killer who is not leaving a pattern — choosing people randomly with a purpose. My Take It’s an interesting cast of victims: a hooker, a researcher, a news editor, a retired teacher, and a politician. Finding the common thread is a tough task for Stella and her crew. As they tease out the connections, we are exposed to BIG money and its manipulations in our world as well as the depths to which such men will descend to accumulate it. Emotionally, Delaney is struggling between boredom and love while Stella is experiencing her own struggle between her never-there mother who has suddenly reappeared in her life and […]
Book Review: Elizabeth George’s A Suitable Vengeance
A lethal series of events shatters the calm of a Cornwall village and embroils Lynley and St. James in a case far outside their jurisdiction—and a little too close to home.