A Plethora Of Mysteries
New Off The Shelf Review: The Locked Room is the fourteenth novel in Elly Griffiths’ Ruth Galloway Mysteries. I have been reading the Ruth Galloway series since 2016 when I binged the first seven books…
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The November Feel
Ann Cleeves’ The Rising Tide, her tenth Vera Stanhope mystery, confirms that Cleeves does not rest on her laurels as a master of moody crime novels. The Rising Tide is just as fine in tone…
Another Wild Ride
James R. Benn, Soho Crime, 2022 And my heart also knew I’d never forget the moment I watched those men advance into hell’s open, gaping jaws. – Billy Boyle [Excerpt from “The Partisan”:Oh, the wind,…
Mayhem, Murder And Marriage
For readers, the best weddings might be those in a novel - no gift to buy, no suitable attire to choose, no tolerating annoying relatives. Mysteries may not be the typical place to portray a…
The Covert Queen
BOOK REVIEW: The Windsor Knot by JS Bennett, William Morrow, 2021 ... The first book in an original and clever crime series in which Queen Elizabeth II secretly solves crimes while carrying out her royal…
In The Looney Bin
The Red Horse, A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery by James R. Benn, Soho Crime, September 2020 “We sat together as the light faded, daylight mingling with dusk, until the night sky drove the…
A Reader’s New Year’s Resolutions
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. – Annie Dillard I’m done with the usual resolutions: eat healthy, get more sleep, lose weight, de-stress. They are all good undertakings,…