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Tag Archives: mystery
Ellis Peters’ The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael
A Morbid Taste For Bones (Warner, 1977) One Corpse Too Many (Warner, 1979) Monk’s Hood (Warner, 1980) St. Peters Fair (Warner, 1981) The Leper of St. Giles (Warner, 1981) The Virgin in the Ice (Warner, 1982) The Sanctuary Sparrow (Warner, … Continue reading
Peter James’ Stop Them Dead
Peter James’ Stop Them Dead is another in a very long-running series, and chooses to focus on a murder connected to a specific subset of crime to give it some novelty. A small family is making ends meet partly by … Continue reading
Jode Millman’s The Empty Kayak
Jodé Millman’s The Empty Kayak is the third in a series starring police detective Ebony Jones. With a title that makes the coming action seem obvious, the book relies heavily on twisting and character to keep reader interest. The police … Continue reading
Earl F. Bargainnier’s The Gentle Art of Murder: The Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie
Faith J. Cormier wrote this review. I have one serious problem with this book – the typeface. The main text itself is fine, but long quotations, as well as the notes, are in tiny, tiny, tiny type. Even with progressive … Continue reading
Jonathan Green’s Unnatural History
What makes reviewing this book complicated is the difficulty in discerning whether the campy, cliché-ridden, pulp-ishness of the book is intentional as an homage to earlier adventure novels, or simply an example of the standard of writing that is normally … Continue reading
Bartle Bull’s Shanghai Station, and China Star
If I fall asleep while I’m reading a Bartle Bull novel, I know am really, seriously tired! His writing keeps me awake and engaged, sometimes to the point that I can’t easily fall asleep – even when I am trying … Continue reading
James R. Benn’s Blood Alone
I read and enjoyed the first two installments in James Benn’s Billy Boyle World War II mystery series. I had learned a while ago from Benn himself that he was at work on a third book, so I’ve been on … Continue reading
James R. Benn’s Billy Boyle, and The First Wave
I chanced upon a copy of The First Wave during the summer of 2006 and was immediately attracted by the cover art. When I looked it up online, I discovered that it was the second book in a series. We … Continue reading
David Downing’s Zoo Station and Silesian Station
I ran across a reference to Zoo Station while browsing the web. I was looking up another book about Germany during World War II and the Amazon search engine gave me this title as a recommendation. It sounded interesting, and … Continue reading
Rebecca Cantrell’s A Night of Long Knives, and David Downing’s Stettin Station
The advance readers’ copies of both of these novels arrived in the Green Man mailroom at about the same time. I have read and reviewed earlier installments in both series. Both are suspenseful tales of the lives of journalists living … Continue reading
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