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Category Archives: Mystery
The Nursing Home Murder by Ngaio Marsh
Read July 2018 Recommended for people who want Christie Lite ™ ★ ★ ★ Things I’ve Learned From British Mysteries 1. When a detective says, “oh, one other small thing…,” it isn’t. 2. Brush up on your … Continue reading
Enter a Murderer by Ngaio Marsh
Read July 2018 Recommended for people who like Christie ★ ★ ★ Written in 1935, this was the second book for Ngaio Marsh, theater director and eventually one of the ‘greats’ in crime fiction writers. To write it, she drew … Continue reading
The Wanted by Robert Crais
Read June 2018 Recommended for fans of PIs ★ ★ ★ Alas; I have reached the current end in the Elvis Cole/Joe Pike series, a collection of private investigator thrillers set predominantly in the Los Angeles basin. Over seventeen books, … Continue reading
Salvation of a Saint by Keigo Higashino
Read June 2018 Recommended for fans of mysteries ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 The second mystery I’ve read by Higashino was even better than my first (The Devotion of Suspect X). There is something immensely satisfying about his approach … Continue reading
Just What the Doctor Ordered by Colin Watson
Read June 2018 Recommended for fans of cozy mysteries ★ ★ ★ This is what happens when Agatha Christie meets Shakespeare. Not, you know, the MacBeth Shakespeare will allusions to guilt and all that. No, this is Comedy of Errors … Continue reading
Taken by Robert Crais
Read June 2018 Recommended for fans of thrillers ★ ★ ★ I’ll say it right off the top: I hate kidnapping plots. When I realized this was centered on a kidnapping (that’s not a spoiler; it’s clear from both … Continue reading
Claire DeWitt and the Infinite Blacktop by Sara Gran
Read May 2018 Recommended for fans of mysteries ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Five million stars. But wait, if I rate this book that high, what does that make Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead? Fucking awesome, … Continue reading
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The Promise, by Robert Crais. Promised and delivered.
Read May 2018 Recommended for fans of thrillers, dogs ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Another fine installment in the Crais series. In this, Elvis takes a job looking for Amy Breslyn, a missing woman who has been withdrawn ever since her … Continue reading
The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett
Read April 2018 Recommended for fans of noir, 1920 cities ★ ★ ★ 1/2 It’s funny how things come together sometimes, isn’t it? I was keeping an eye out for Bennett’s newest book when I discovered his sophomore book, a … Continue reading
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The Sentry by Robert Crais
Read April 2018 Recommended for thrills ★ ★ ★ ★ “Button’s face was blank as Pike approached, but a deep line cut Futardo’s brow. Pike wondered what she was thinking. Button’s jacket was already off in anticipation of the coming … Continue reading
