Tag Archives: mystery
The Album of Dr. Moreau
Read February 2021 ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Daryl Gregory always gets a second look from me. I thought Afterparty interesting and clever, Harrison Squared interesting and clever, We Are All Completely Fine interesting and disturbing, Pandemonium interesting … Continue reading
An Obvious Fact by Craig Johnson
Read October 2020 Recommended for fans of Longmire ★ ★ 1/2 A book clearly made for the small screen. Featuring: -Walt committing more misdemeanors than a Hells Angel at a rally -Henry in multiple bar fights -all the … Continue reading
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
The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
Read May 2020 Recommended for fans of cleverness, digression ★ ★ ★ ★ Once again, The Fourth Bear makes the personal library cut. Oh, don’t get me wrong; it’s as meandering as bumblebee at the height of … Continue reading
