Posts tagged with ‘Mystery’
June 5, 2012
THE DEATH OF A FRIEND takes psychologist/sleuth Maisie Dobbs back to her Cockney roots. Stylish 1930s cosy!
Grade: B PLUS
ELEGY FOR EDDIE: A MAISIE DOBBS NOVEL
Harper
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels
May 13, 2012
MARVELOUSLY CRAFTED NOVEL of an expatriate returning to England and being caught up in a 60-year-old murder.
Grade: A MINUS
BEFORE THE POISON
William Morrow
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels
May 2, 2012
CHARMING COZY MYSTERY set in small-town coastal Maine features a local newspaper reporter (and mom) as sleuth.
Grade: SOLID B
CHOCOLATE COVERED MURDER
Kensington
2011
Tags: Mystery, Novels, Solid B Reviews
April 26, 2012
KENTUCKY NOIR RIDES again in these latest adventures of Elmore Leonard’s US Marshal antihero, Raylan Givens.
Grade: B PLUS
RAYLAN
William Morrow
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Mystery, Novels
April 19, 2012
AMERICA’S MOST NEUROTIC private investigator, Izzy Spellman, returns in this wacky, delightful tale of intrigue.
Grade: B PLUS
TRAIL OF THE SPELLMANS (SPELLMAN FILES #5)
Simon & Schuster
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Humor, Mystery, Novels
April 17, 2012
THE LATEST MYSTERY (#10) for troubled savant NYC detective Mallory is her most intriguing (and upsetting) yet.
Grade: B PLUS
THE CHALK GIRL
Putnam
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Mystery, Novels
April 12, 2012
DEATH AND TREACHERY among the glitterati! Plucky reporter/sleuth Bailey Weggins solves a supermodel’s murder.
Grade: SOLID B
SO PRETTY IT HURTS (A BAILEY WEGGINS MYSTERY)
Harper
2012
Tags: Mystery, Novels, Solid B Reviews
April 11, 2012
AN ESCAPED SERIAL KILLER with charm and money to burn wreaks havoc in the lives of those who jailed him. Tense!
Grade: SOLID B
THE RETRIBUTION (TONY HILL AND CAROL JORDAN SERIES #7)
Grove Atlantic
2012
Tags: Mystery, Novels, Solid B Reviews
March 28, 2012
LITERARY MEETS NOIR in Percival Everett’s latest novel, a complex and playful twist on police procedurals.
Grade: B PLUS
ASSUMPTION
Graywolf Press
2011
Tags: African American Writers, B Plus Reviews, Black Writers, Experimental Fiction, Mystery, Novels
March 21, 2012
BEAUTIFULLY CURATED COLLECTION of Victorian detective stories includes old favorites and some new finds.
Grade: B PLUS
THE DEAD WITNESS: A CONNOISSEUR'S COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN DETECTIVE STORIES
Walker & Company
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Literary History, Mystery, Short Stories