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Tag Archives: mystery
Newcomer by Keigo Higashino
Read July 2019 Recommended for fans of Miss Marple ★ ★ ★ 1/2 In each Higashino Sgt. Kaga mystery I’ve read, he’s done something quite unique, and in Newcomer, he surprised me again with his unusual approach to the … Continue reading
Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn
Read July 2019 Recommended for those who want hope at the end of the world ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Vaughn has a easy-to-read style, and it didn’t take me long to finish Bannerless, despite persistent déjà vu. I read … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, female lead, mystery
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Coyote Wind: A Gabriel Du Pre Mystery by Peter Bowen
Read July 2019 Recommended for fans of ★ ★ ★ An interesting, slice-of-Montana-life story that was mildly marred by the last three pages. The story is ostensibly a mystery, but the hero is a cattle-inspector, and only part-time … Continue reading
A Song of Shadows by John Connolly
Read June 2019 Recommended for fans of the series ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Easily the best Charlie Parker book since The Lovers (#8). It was, for me, a perfectly balanced Parker book: mystery, the supernatural, vengeance, visceral horror, … Continue reading
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Tagged five star, four star, mystery, series, supernatural mystery
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The Vinyl Detective by Andrew Cartmel
Read April 2019 Recommended for fans of hipster thrillers ★ ★ ★ I really think my recommendation says it all, but here’s some specifics: A very, very down-on-his-luck record fan is getting desperate. The estate broiler finally broke, … Continue reading
Promised Land by Robert B. Parker
Read April 2019 Recommended for fans of Spenser ★ ★ 1/2 The One Where Spenser is Schooled on the Dangers of the Souless Suburban Life by Susan. Also The One Where We Meet Hawk, Who Is a … Continue reading
God Save the Child by Robert B. Parker
Read April 2019 Recommended for fans of Spenser ★ ★ 1/2 Oh, Parker. I swear, there must have been a standard in the 70s (1974, to be exact) where 25% of a detective novel had to be … Continue reading
Don’t Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman
Read March 2019, sort of Recommended for fans of ? ★ ★ Sometimes, age doesn’t bring wisdom, and unfortunately, Buck Schatz (get it) is one of those cases. I started “Don’t Ever Get Old” hoping for humor–say, Grandma … Continue reading
The Godwulf Manuscript by Robert B. Parker
Read again March 2019 Recommended for fans of Spenser, really old school PI ★ ★ ★ Ah, the first Spenser mystery, the one to start a series of almost forty books in forty years. Having started it somewhat … Continue reading
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
Read March 2019 Recommended for fans of Christie, Sayers ★ ★ ★ ★ I didn’t know much about the Magpie Murders when Dan 2-Headphones suggested it as a buddy read. I read the description, and though it … Continue reading
