Tag Archives: mystery
Sea Storm by Andrew Mayne
Read November 2022 Recommended for police procedural fans ★ ★ ★ Not enough cowbell underwater. For every thriller/mystery series, there is a style and a place, and that’s part of the attraction. Conversations go like this with my … Continue reading
Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty
Finished September 2022 Recommended for fans ★ 1/2 Super-cool premise, super-soft execution. Good memories of Lafferty’s Six Wakes led me to requesting Station Eternity. Sadly, time seems to have increased ambition without accompanying skill. Six Wakes was a fun, locked-room–of … Continue reading
Fear Itself by Walter Mosely
Read July 2022 Recommended for Easy Rawlins fans who have run out of books ★ ★ ★ I like Walter Mosley, I really do. His writing captures that blend of action, description and social commentary that elevates a good mystery … Continue reading
The Case of the Canterfell Codicil by P.J. Fitzsimmons
Read May 2022 Recommended for Wodehouse fans ★ ★ ★ 1/2 While Bertie Wodehouse is a delight, there’s only so many times one can read about the cow creamer escapade. I think. (I’m putting it at once every five to … Continue reading
Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances by Aliette de Bodard
Read May 2022 Recommended ★ ★ ★ ★ I’m fond of de Bodard’s writing style. Though I bounced off the first book in this universe, The House of Shattered Wings, it did not stop me from enjoying this novella. … Continue reading
Sanibel Flats by Randy Wayne White
Read May 2022 Recommended for fans of thrillers, marine biology ★ ★ ★ Ah, the airport thriller. White’s entry into the genre is solid, albeit rather peculiar. What can we say? It was the 1990s. A lot of … Continue reading
The Verifiers by Jane Pek
Read May 2022 Recommended for lit fic fans ★ ★ 1/2 I should have liked The Verifiers, an amalgamation of three of my book interests: quirky New York women, mysteries, and identity exploration. Bonus, it even claimed to be about … Continue reading
Silent Parade by Keigo Higashino
Read March 2022 Recommended for fans. Very ardent ones. ★ ★ I loved Higashino’s Salvation of a Saint and The Devotion of Suspect X. Malice and A Midsummer’s Equation were enjoyable, but not nearly as remarkable. This, though: this was … Continue reading
Dead Man’s Sins by Caimh McDonnell
Read March 2022 Recommended for mild mystery laughs ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Really best if one just sits back and enjoys the ride. Relax into the exaggerated writing that is McDonnell, because some of the rat-a-tat-tat is sure to land. … Continue reading
Seven Down by David Whitton
Read February 2022 Recommended for fans of Less Than Zero Not for me A character study composed of unhappy, unlikable sleeper agents, formatted as a debriefing after an equally disastrous operation. The debriefing format means it’s told retrospectively, first person, … Continue reading
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