Jane Wunderly is a young widow in 1926 accompanying her aunt Millie on an adventure to Egypt. They are staying at the wonderful Mena House… The worst Jane would have to deal with, she thought, was her aunt trying to set her up with an available rich man. This will soon be the least of …
Early in 2020, I watched a PBS TV mini-series entitled “Vienna Blood.” While watching the series, I discovered that it was based on books by author Frank Tallis. I have now read the first book featuring Max and his circle of friends and family, A Death in Vienna. There are at least seven books in …
“It was a dark and stormy night…” Okay, it was not stormy, but in Mark Pryor’s second thriller starring Hugo Marston entitled The Crypt Thief, the story opens in a famous Paris cemetery in the middle of a dark night. Spooky. The villain, nicknamed The Scarab, is up to no good. He kills a young …
Edwards, an expert on Golden Age mystery fiction, delivers here a fast-clip work of psychological suspense set during the Great Depression. It imagines Jacob Flint, an oft-rash junior crime reporter for London’s Clarion newspaper, chancing upon what he sees as a scoop in Rachel Savernake, the bewitching, wealthy daughter of a notorious hanging judge, who’s …
In The Night Fire, Michael Connelly is still adjusting his audience to the fact that retired detective Harry Bosch is old (much older than he is portrayed in the delightful TV series) and there are only so many fences he can gambol over before he breaks his hip. A few books back, Connelly cleverly introduced Renée Ballard, …
During his national tour for Hope Rides Again, the second Obama/Biden mystery, NYT bestselling humorist Andrew Shaffer filmed a special moment at Queen Anne Book Company in Seattle… Enjoy!
Over the years, while browsing for books to read, the name of Martin Limon kept popping up, but I paid no attention to the recommendations. I now regret those decisions. I attended the Tucson Festival of Books in March 2019, where I had a chance to hear Mr. Limon speak during a session of a mystery writers’ …
Andrew Shaffer is back with Hope Rides Again, starring your favorite detective duo Barack Obama and Joseph R. Biden. Obama loses his cell phone, Biden tries to do some sleuthing. There is an attempted kidnapping (or two), and Biden comes off as trying to work out lines for his campaign speeches, which is probably done …
Sujata Massey introduced us to Perveen Mistry in The Widows of Malabar Hill and has now released a sequel, The Satapur Moonstone. The mysteries are a delightful blend of thoughtful lawyering and high-stakes drawing room drama. Inspired by real-life lawyer Cornelia Sorabji (who also makes an appearance in the first book in the series), Perveen …
I first read a Josephine Tey book in 1962 and it changed my life. I became a huge fan of British history especially in the period from King Arthur to Richard III. I took a tour of the Tower of London castle/prison in August 1962. It was just before I began my junior year in …
