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Tag Archives: mystery
Rebecca Cantrell’s A Trace of Smoke
When A Trace of Smoke arrived in the Green Man mailroom, I grabbed it right away. I had a feeling I was going to love every page of it, and indeed I did! At first I thought it was a … Continue reading
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Tagged mystery, noir detective fiction, Romance, suspense
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Philip Kerr’s Berlin Noir, The One From the Other, A Quiet Flame, and If the Dead Rise Not
I first ran across Berlin Noir, containing the titles March Violets, The Pale Criminal, and A German Requiem) in one of those remaindered book catalogs several years ago. A detective series set in 1930s Berlin certainly sounded right up my alley, … Continue reading
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Tagged mystery, noir detective fiction
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Paul Grossman’s The Sleepwalkers
I must be attracting novels about Nazi Germany for a reason. Sometimes I feel like I have an alternate life in 1930s Berlin, on that terrifying cusp between the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. My husband found The Sleepwalkers … Continue reading
Thames Television’s The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
I said this in reviewing the first season of Van der Valk: In this household, we watch a lot of mystery series: U.S. (such as CSI: Miami and Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Canadian (Murdoch Mysteries and Intelligence are but … Continue reading
Thames Television’s Van der Valk: Series One
In this household, we watch a lot of mystery series: U.S. (such as CSI: Miami and Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Canadian (Murdoch Mysteries and Intelligence are but two that come to mind), and U.K. (the main fare of our … Continue reading
Kristine Kathryn Rusch‘s Unity Con (A Spade/Paladin Conundrum)
Spade is in Garland, Texas, hanging out with people he likes instead of going to Unity Con, a convention he has sworn not to attend because it’s been organized by a group, or rather two groups, of people at the … Continue reading
Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s At Witt’s End (A Spade/Paladin Conundrum),
Spade is back and this time the problem he faces is conducting a memorial for a recently deceased BNF (Big Name Fan) who never wanted any memorial, along with auctioning off the man’s fabulous collection of science fiction fandom memorabilia, … Continue reading
Amulya Malladi’s A Death in Denmark
Amulya Malladi’s A Death in Denmark makes bold claims about the intent to make up for the past and improve the present. It does these by building a case in which both prove key to understanding certain crimes. With a … Continue reading
Loren D. Estleman’s City Walls
Loren D. Estleman’s City Walls is the 31st in the Amos Walker Mystery series. With a long running crime series and an old hand at writing, the plot is far more new than the detective. This book finds the Michigan … Continue reading
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Tagged detective fiction, hard boiled, mystery
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Deborah Crombie’s A Killing of Innocents
Deborah Crombie’s A Killing Of Innocents is the latest in her Duncan Kincade and Gemma Jones series. Starting with the description of a few events and then the discovery of a dead woman, our leads are quickly called into the … Continue reading
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Tagged English police procedural, mystery
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