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Tag Archives: mystery
Sharyn McCrumb’s Highland Laddie Gone
Have you ever been to a bonnie Highland Games in the States? One of me bands, Dead Heroes of Culloden, played a few well-payin’ gigs at some a ways back. Several of our lads being of Scottish heritage were both … Continue reading
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Tagged Highland Games, mystery, Scottish culture
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Anne Hillerman’s Spider Women’s Daughter
Anne Hillerman is, to quote her bio in this novel, ‘an award-winning reporter, the author of several nonfiction books, and the daughter of New York Times bestselling mystery author Tony Hillerman. She lives in Santa Fe. This is her first … Continue reading
Tagged mystery, Navaho culture
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Rita Mae Brown’s Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
This long running mystery series, this is the ninth novel so far, is always an interesting read for me. This series grows out of her passions for horses, hounds, and American fox hunting which show up frequently in her fiction … Continue reading
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Tagged Fox Hunting Culture, mystery
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Craig Johnson’s Dry Bones
Ok, let’s start off by noting that the characters here are not the same in their characterisation as the one submarine their names on the excellent Longmire series currently running on Netflix after its previous network canceled. Even the depiction … Continue reading
Sharyn McCrumb’s Ghost Riders
Andrea penned this review. Ghost Riders is the latest novel in Sharyn McCrumb’s “Ballad Series.” Ghost Riders is different from the others in the series in that there is no mystery (in the “mystery novel” sense of the word) to … Continue reading
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Tagged American Civial War, Appalachian culture, mystery
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Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s Arabesk trilogy
El Iskandriya sits at the Delta as she has done for thousands of years, a city of great wealth, staggering poverty, intrigue, indolence, and, because she is technically a free city open to the currents of influence from the lands … Continue reading
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Tagged mystery, Ottoman Empire
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Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s 9Tail Fox
The book cover claims that Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s 9Tail Fox is “A novel of science fiction.” Considering what science fiction has become over the past generation, that could well be valid — with some qualifications. I’m going to call it … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese mythology, mystery
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The Medieval Murderers’ Sword of Shame
The Medieval Murderers (authors actually: Michael Jecks, Susanna Gregory, Bernard Knight, Ian Morson and Phillip Gooden), after pooling their talents on The Tainted Relic, have done so again with The Sword of Shame. As in Relic, each author contributes their own murder mystery, … Continue reading
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Tagged Medieval history, mystery
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Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair
Enter a world where things are very, very different. Where in 1985, Britain is a virtual police state, engaged in border wars with the People’s Republic of Wales, and well into the 131st year of the Crimean War. Where all … Continue reading
Norberto Barba, et al.: Grimm, Seasons One and Two
The NBC Television series Grimm entered my life quite by chance, when our esteemed publisher e-mailed me asking whether I wanted to review it. Knowing absolutely nothing about it, but having a newly acquired TV and DVD player, of course … Continue reading
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Tagged dark fantasy, mystery
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