Book Review: Louise Penny’s The Brutal Telling
A stranger is found murdered in the bistro in Three Pines, only…that’s not where he was killed and the trail to find his killer seems to lead to Olivier, raising too many questions.
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Book Review: Louise Penny’s A Rule Against Murder
Chief Inspector Gamache must unearth secrets long buried and hatreds hidden behind polite smiles when fa family reunion ends in murder.
Book Review: Louise Penny’s A Fatal Grace
Not even death by electrocution can make anyone like CC de Poitiers. It takes Chief Inspector Armand Gamache digging beneath the village’s surface to find secrets long buried.
Book Review: Donna Andrews’ Duck the Halls
In between shopping, wrapping, cooking, caroling, and decorating, Meg is busy detecting murder, arson, and who those holiday pranksters are.
Book Review: Donna Andrews’ The Hen of the Baskervilles
A dastardly murder and the kidnapping of a prize chicken threaten to ruin Caerphilly’s state fair—fortunately, Meg Langslow is on the case.
Book Review: Steven Saylor’s Catilina’s Riddle
Rome is divided between Cicero and Catilina in the consular elections, and Cicero pulls Gordianus the Finder out of retirement to find the dirt on Catilina. In this cloak-and-dagger political struggle, Gordianus wonders about the truth of Catilina until a headless corpse ominously appears on his farm.
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.
Book Review: Steven Saylor’s Seven Wonders
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.
Book Review: Steven Saylor’s Arms of Nemesis
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.
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s The Family Way
The pregnant Molly Sullivan has been sent to Daniel’s mother in Westchester. Being Molly, she discovers an Irish maid and five babies missing.