Book Review: Charlotte MacLeod’s Wrack and Rune
A gruesome murder leads Professor Peter Shandy to uncover an ancient Viking curse.
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Book Review: Charlotte MacLeod’s The Luck Runs Out
Professor Peter Shandy is in trouble up to the eyeballs again. With the Annual Competition of the Balaclava County Draft Horse Association coming up, some saboteur has reversed all the horseshoes nailed to the stable doors of Balaclava Agricultural College as good luck charms. Shandy predicts dire happenings. His predictions are nowhere near dire enough.
Book Review: Charlotte MacLeod’s Rest You Merry
His plans thwarted, a university scrooge returns home on Christmas Day to find a murdered librarian.
Book Review: Elizabeth Peters’ The Deeds of the Disturber
Back in London after an archaeological dig, adventurous sleuth Amelia Peabody—“rather like Indiana Jones, Sherlock Holmes, and Miss Marple all rolled into one”—discovers that a night watchman at the museum has perished in the shadow of a mummy case
Book Review: Elizabeth Peters’ Crocodile on the Sandbank
Amelia Peabody inherited two things from her father: a considerable fortune and an unbendable will. The first allowed her to indulge in her life’s passion. Without the second, the mummy’s curse would have made corpses of them all.
Book Review: Ken Bruen’s The Ghosts of Galway
Everyone wants a piece of Jack Taylor. To recover The Red Book, a priestly plea, the many-faced Em, Ridge wants to arrest him, and terrorists.
Book Review: Ken Bruen’s Purgatory
C 33. A serial killer targeting the scum of Galway, inviting a now-clean Jack Taylor to join him. There’s also a dodgy dot-com billionaire buying up the town.
Book Review: Ken Bruen’s Headstone
Evil has many guises and Jack Taylor has seen most of them. But nothing is as bad as an evil coterie named Headstone, who are committing random, insane, violent crimes in Galway, Ireland.