Book Review: John Creasey’s First Came a Murder
A mad masquerade of murder, larceny, and deceit as Hugh Devenish of Department Z hunts down the murderer and discovers yet worse that could affect the entire nation, the whole world.
Source: my own shelves
Book Review: Kelley Armstrong’s The Boy Who Cried Bear
It was a bear with human eyes that Max, the town’s youngest resident, saw. No one should go into the forest alone, and yet one does and then a dead body turns up.
Book Review: John Creasey’s Carriers of Death
Whispers bloom into rumors that explode into inciting news headlines — Britain is sabotaging American military vessels and bases even as British bases are blowing up around the country. Will Britain declare war?
Book Review: John Creasey’s Redhead
An American gangster brings his bloody business to 1930s Britain, threatening the economies of America and Britain, even as his plots lay siege to the men of Department Z.
Book Review: John Creasey’s The Death Miser
Millions of lives are at stake if a sinister international conspiracy succeeds. It’s up to England’s elite detective agency, Department Z, to make sure that doesn’t happen.
Book Review: Josh Lanyon’s Murder Takes the High Road
A librarian finds himself in a plot right out of one of his favorite mystery novels, even as he juggles his feelings about his ex and his significant other.
Book Review: Larissa Ione’s Legacy of Temptation
It’s a tempestuous mix of demons and humans as they tiptoe into a two-week exchange program that hatreds cause to explode. It’s Logan, Death’s son, and Eva Tennant who have their own battle of prejudices to dissect.
Book Review: John Creasey’s The Peril Ahead
When a professor who has created a devastating weapon with the potential to change the world is kidnapped—along with his deadly formula—Department Z springs into action.
Book Review: Laurell K. Hamilton’s Swallowing Darkness
I am Meredith, princess of faerie, wielder of the hands of Flesh and Blood, and at long last, I am with child — twins, fathered by my royal guard. Not all in faerie are pleased with the news, and conspirators from every court in the realm plot against me and mine.
Book Review: Diane Vallere’s Suede to Rest
With her career as a dress designer in shreds, Polyester Monroe is looking forward to a fresh start. But as it all unfolds, the pattern to a new beginning looks a lot like murder.