Category Archives: Mystery
Lieberman’s Folly by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Read October 2020 Recommended for fans of PI detective ★ ★ ★ I need a good mystery to balance out the imagination in my other stories, and frankly, the unmitigated disaster that is normal life. The … Continue reading
Florida Straits by Laurence Shimes
Read September 2020 Recommended for fans of ?comedy Mafias? ★ ★ ★ 1/2 This was unexpected. No, really, it was. I expected a Mafia thriller/farce–perhaps along the lines of ‘Get Shorty’–what I found was a rather interesting story … Continue reading
Exit by Belinda Bauer
Read September 2020 Recommended for fans of British mysteries ★ ★ ★ An uneven but satisfying reading experience. Elderly (but not geriatric) widower Felix is on an assignment with his new partner, Amanda, as an Exiteer. Exiteers are … Continue reading
Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
Read June 2020 Recommended for fans of Christie, Poirot ★ ★ 1/2 Some Christies are very absorbing, but Five Little Pigs (alternate American title: “Murder in Retrospect”) left an emotional gap that was never was quite bridged. … Continue reading
Robert B. Parker’s Old Black Magic by Ace Atkins
Recommended for: Parker fans Read May 2020 ★ ★ ★ Akins has taken over Parker’s Spenser series and honestly, has probably surpassed the final decade of books that Parker himself was able to push out. Still, reading the merging … Continue reading
The Smart Woman’s Guide to Murder by Victoria Dowd. Or The Smart Woman Considers it Unpalatable.
Read May 2020 Recommended for no one. ★ You would think that at my age, I would be smarter than to fall for a marketing line that claims “A GOLDEN AGE COUNTRY HOUSE MURDER MYSTERY BROUGHT BANG UP TO … Continue reading
A Game of Ghosts by John Connolly
Read January 2020 Recommended for fans of Charlie Parker ★ ★ ★ “A new fall of snow had settled upon the old, like memories, like the years. It would freeze, too, according to the weathermen, adding another … Continue reading
The Word is Murder by anthony horowitz
Read January 2020 Recommended for fans of horowitz ★ ★ 1/2 One thing you can say about horowitz, he certainly likes to base his mysteries around a Catchy Idea. In this book, he’s written himself into the story, biographical … Continue reading
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Read December 2019 Recommended for middle school detectives ★ ★ ★ ★ The Westing Game is first full-length mystery I remember reading. Well, besides Encyclopedia Brown and Nancy Drew books. But the one mystery that I could still … Continue reading
