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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
The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall
Attempted June 2021Not recommendedDNF/ ★ “Watch out Alexander McCall Smith!” claims the blurb. Watch out indeed, because Hall is not doing the genre any favors. Though I picked this up due to a favorable GR review, and found myself further … Continue reading
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman
Read April 2021 Recommended for fans of cozy-type mystery ★ ★ ★ After a slow start, the Rabbi came through. A red herring or two, a couple of likable characters, and a not-incompetent police chief made for some interesting stops … Continue reading
The Day That Never Comes by Caimh McDonnell
Read April 2021Recommended for fans of McDonnell★ ★ 1/2 While I was a fan of McDonnell’s first book, A Man With One of Those Faces, the follow-up did not work as well. My First Big Clue was an extremely … Continue reading
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
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