Tag Archives: mystery

Lee Child and Otto Penzler’s The Mysterious Bookshop Presents The Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2021 is, as the name implies, a collection of excellent mystery stories published in the previous year. With pieces from authors as well known … Continue reading →

Ray Bradbury’s Killer Come Back to Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury is a collection that brings together works truly spanning the decades of one man’s career. While relatively limited in genre compared to the overall works of Ray … Continue reading →

Joanna Schaffhausen’s Gone For Good is a mystery thriller that aims to start a new series centering on a police detective named Annalisa Vega. She is a police detective, whose father was in the business, both based out of Chicago. … Continue reading →

Margot Bennett’s The Widow of Bath is one of a series of mysteries long out of print brought back in the British Library Crime Classics line. A celebrated author in her time, this revival for Bennett seems well earned at … Continue reading →

Arnaldur Indridason’s The Darkness Knows is a fascinating example of the Icelandic detective story. Starring a retired police detective named Konrad, an old man with unsolved cases under his belt and a fractured history, this volume by it’s very nature … Continue reading →

This is a most enjoyable little story featuring the agony of a murder trial and the bizzare nature of what can often follow. This is a wonderful twisting mystery that deserves more attention than it currently gets. Although as in … Continue reading →

Stephen Spotswood’s Fortune Favors the Dead is a wonderful bit of throwback fiction, featuring a pair of detectives solving mysteries while sharing a home. It is hardly a new formula, yet works very well. The case here deals with a … Continue reading →