Tag Archives: mystery

Alex Bledsoe’s Dark Jenny

Posted on 20th January 2016 by Robert

What do you get when you mix the legend of King Arthur with the detective fiction of Raymond Chandler? It seems you come up with Alex Bledsoe’s stories of Eddie LaCrosse, sometime mercenary soldier, sometime hardboiled detective. In Dark Jenny, … Continue reading →

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Carole Nelson Douglas’s Cat in a Kiwi Con 

Posted on 9th January 2016 by Diverse Voices

No’am Newman wrote this for us. First, the facts: this is the fourteenth in a series of mystery books written about a cat called Midnight Louie. Some of the others have alliterative names such as Cat in a Diamond Dazzle or Cat in … Continue reading →

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Phillip DePoy’s The Devil’s Hearth

Posted on 6th January 2016 by Cat Eldridge

I’ve a special fondness for mystery series set in the Appalachian Mountains, even though there aren’t a lot of good ones and a lot of not so great ones. Sharyn McCrumb’s Ballads series had some memorable outings, particularly among the … Continue reading →

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Dusty Rainbolt’s Death Under The Crescent Moon

Posted on 18th March 2013 by Richard Dansky

There’s a moment toward the end of Dusty Rainbolt’s Death Under the Crescent Moon that is worth the price of admission all by its lonesome. In that instant, Rainbolt takes the clichés of the haunted hotel mystery and neatly dumps … Continue reading →

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Tasha Alexander’s A Fatal Waltz and Tears of Pearl

Posted on 17th October 2009 by Donna Bird

A while back I reviewed an earlier book in this series, A Poisoned Season. I liked it enough that I knew I would be willing to read future installments. Then I lost track, which is easy enough to do, given … Continue reading →

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Tasha Alexander’s A Poisoned Season

Posted on 17th June 2007 by Donna Bird

This late Victorian murder mystery’s dust jacket immediately caught my eye. It features a detail from one of my favorite paintings, Tissot’s “L’Ambitieuse” (translated as “Political Woman” or “The Reception”), depicting a dark-haired, elaborately dressed and coiffed woman gazing somewhat … Continue reading →

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Barbara Nadel’s The Ottoman Cage

Posted on 12th June 2006 by Donna Bird

We have an office at Green Man, staffed by brownies, of course, that does searches for books that might interest us. One of those searches netted me a copy of The Ottoman Cage. I’m easy for the brownies to figure … Continue reading →

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BBC’s The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries

Posted on 6th January 2006 by Gary Whitehouse

We watch almost nothing on so-called network television these days. Oh, the local news is watched, but that’s it. Now partly that’s because the premium networks such as HBO are where the really good stuff is, such as Carnivàle and … Continue reading →

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Anne K. Kaler, editor’s Cordially Yours, Brother Cadfael

Posted on 12th June 2003 by Leona Wisoker

Anyone who has had to battle their way through an English term paper probably remembers with dread the research books that they had to wade through, scraping a quote here and an inference there, then helplessly staring at how much … Continue reading →

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