Book Review: J.D. Robb’s Concealed in Death
Demolition on a decrepit, long-empty New York building unveils two skeletons that lead to yet more. Lt Eve Dallas puts her all into discovering their identities and finding their murderer.
Genre: mystery
Book Review: Agatha Christie’s “The Submarine Plans”
Poirot is summoned to the home of the head of the Ministry of Defense, to investigate the theft of top-secret plans for a new submarine.
Book Review: Agatha Christie’s “The Million Dollar Bond Robbery”
Poirot must prove the innocence of a young bank manager who has had a million dollars in bonds stolen from him while on a boat voyage to New York.
Book Review: Josh Lanyon’s The Dark Farewell
A not-quite-fake medium upsets newspaper man David Flynn on several levels even as news of a serial killer rampages through the county.
Book Review: Alyssa Day’s Eye of Danger
Welcome to Dead End, Florida, where the pawnshop never, ever deals in vampire teeth, although broke clowns, a bad-fortune telling machine, and a greedy mob boss do.
Book Review: Josh Lanyon’s Mystery at the Masquerade
It’s a masquerade party with a ghost hunt at the end that ends in murder, and Ellery Page is knee deep with competing love interests.
Book Review: Peter Grainger’s Songbird
Detective Sergeant Chris Waters got the call at 05.29 that July morning. This is it, said DCI Reeve, you’ll be first there, it’s all yours, you’re the crime scene manager. Suddenly, after months of waiting and wondering, Waters finds himself in at the deep end, and alone at the scene of a puzzling murder.
Book Review: John D MacDonald’s Nightmare in Pink
McGee heads to New York at the request of one his former war buddies to help his sister. For Nina – a career girl living alone in Manhattan – offers Travis McGee companionship and the first loose thread in the elaborate fabric of a gigantic swindle.
Book Review: John Creasey’s Gideon and the Young Toughs and Other Stories
An omnibus of thirteen very short stories in the Commander George Gideon police procedural series set in the 1960s and revolving around a compassionate police commander.
Book Review: Agatha Christie’s “The Adventure of the Clapham Cook”
It’s Mrs Todd’s frustration over her cook leaving without a word and several articles in a sensationalist newspaper that causes Hercule Poirot to link all these “coincidences” together.