Book Review: Ian Rankin’s A Good Hanging
An omnibus of twelve short stories in the Detective Inspector Rebus mystery series revolving around an Edinburgh detective.
An omnibus of twelve short stories in the Detective Inspector Rebus mystery series revolving around an Edinburgh detective.
It’s 92 B.C. and eighteen-year-old Gordianus embarks on the adventure of a lifetime: a far-flung journey to see the Seven Wonders of the World. Not yet called “the Finder”, Gordianus encounters a mystery at each of the Wonders to challenge his powers of deduction.
When Marcus Crassus’ overseer is found hideously murdered with a note left, a mysterious client hires Gordianus the Finder to find out the truth about the murder. Before Crassus’ vow to slaughter his remaining slaves in three days.
The pregnant Molly Sullivan has been sent to Daniel’s mother in Westchester. Being Molly, she discovers an Irish maid and five babies missing.
A crazed gunman pumps a magazine of bullets into Brant, and his fellow cops wonder why someone didn’t shoot him years ago. It’s a simple answer…
]Her antiques business thriving and so much to lose, Josie Prescott can’t help but worry when murder invades her seemingly quiet community.
Molly Murphy is supposed to give up sleuthing now that she’s married, but the murder of an alderman puts her on the trail of a killer.
The “Manners Killer” intends a long-overdue lesson on the importance of manners. But Brant is ornery enough that if anyone is getting away with murder on his patch, it’ll be him.
Evans risks everything to solve the murders and discover what happened to Jamila.
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…