Tag Archives: mystery
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
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
Small Vices by Robert B. Parker
Read November 2019 Recommended for Spenser fans ★ ★ 1/2 Having read this over a decade ago, it wouldn’t normally make the re-read list. However, the dad enjoyed the last Parker book I gave him, so I thought … Continue reading
Hundred-Dollar Baby by Robert B. Parker
Read November 2019 Recommended for Spenser fans ★ ★ 1/2 Oh goodness, definitely a good thing I was a helicopter parent. Not a good fit for dad. Suddenly I understand why Parker has the Jesse Stone series: as … Continue reading
Maggie Terry by Sarah Schulman
Read November 2019 For fans of NYC and addiction lit-fic ★ ★ Hey, a new category of fiction for me: the NFM. Not quite a DNF, it’s a Not For Me, a quit before I waste any more … Continue reading
The Wrong Case by James Crumley
Read August to September 2019 Recommended for fans of boozers ★ ★ Was this a mystery? Nominally. Was this an extended bender through the days of Milo’s feeble attempts to distract himself from the drunken ennui of his … Continue reading
