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Auf Wiedersehen, Old Friend

Metropolis by Philip Kerr

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The last week or so, I’ve written in different outlets about the impact Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther series has had on my reading journey and personal life. While acknowledging the many faults of these books, I love them in a special way. I think Kerr is great at capturing atmosphere and cynicism to produce some truly great crime reading. “Nazi Noir” is a burgeoning genre now but Kerr’s Gunther works were really the trendsetter. Knowing this would be the last one following Kerr’s untimely death, and knowing it was set solely in Weimar Berlin, got me emotional just thinking about […]

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4/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:40 |

When It Feels Like It’s Getting Late, I Will Reveal You

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

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As much as I love mysteries, I’ve never really gotten into the classics of the genre. I read And Then There Were None at far too young an age and it scared the absolute crap out of me–that was it for Agatha Christie, up until a few months ago when there was a Kindle sale on Murder on the Orient Express. I read it and thoroughly enjoyed it. Hercule Poirot’s mannerisms tickled me, and I loved the big cast and the bottle episode feel of the setting. When I read that Death on the Nile is considered one of the […]

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4/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:11 |

A meta murder mystery

The Word Is Murder (Hawthorne #1) by Anthony Horowitz

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Oh my god this book was so much fun! I thought Anthony Horowitz’s other novel (Magpie Murders) was meta, but this goes above and beyond! Okay, let me see if I can sum this plot up correctly without TOO much confusion: Diana Cowper, mother of a famous actor, walks into a funeral parlor and arranges her own funeral. Then she goes home, and someone murders her (gasp!) — that’s our murder mystery. But then there’s a detective named Daniel Hawthorne. He wants a ghostwriter to write his life story — he envisions himself as the grumpy but brilliant investigator solving crimes […]

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4/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:31 |

Said the Spider to the Fly…

By a Spider's Thread by Laura Lippman

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I honestly don’t have much to say here except that I really enjoyed this updated look at Tess’s life. She is still suffering some aftershocks after the events in the last book. Having to kill someone or she would be killed left a hole in her. She and her boyfriend are living apart since she feels like he is trying to “fix” her and keep her safe. She is back to rowing and doing investigations again. Her uncle brings her a new client who is trying to track down his wife and three children. He doesn’t understand why she left […]

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4/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:91 |

A Lady Unlike Any Other

A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas

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4.5 stars I keep struggling to summarise the plot in a good way, so I’ll just let the blurb do it: With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper class society. But even she never thought that she would become a social pariah, an outcast fending for herself on the mean streets of London.  When the city is struck by a trio of unexpected deaths and suspicion falls on her sister and her father, Charlotte is desperate to find the true culprits and clear the family name. She’ll […]

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4/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

Eat the Rich

Murder at the Savoy by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö

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Going into reading this series, I knew Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö were avowed socialists who wrote these books in large parts as a critique of inequality in Sweden. But while their beliefs do sneak out from time-to-time, they generally ground their mysteries in the tradition of a police procedural as opposed to pedagogy cloaked in mystery drag. That goes out the window with Murder at the Savoy, which is about as didactic of a book as I’ve read from them. There’s no question about it to the co-authors: the rich suck. They also suck the marrow out of the economy […]

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4/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:39 |

My first cozy mystery.

A Quiet Life in the Country (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries, #1) by T E Kinsey

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Yet another book where I really just want a 3.5 star rating. I liked it more than three stars, but I didn’t like it enough for four. This was a fun, cozy little mystery set in England in 1908. It follows Florence “Flo” Armstrong, our narrator, who is a servant of the Lady Emily Hardcastle, but she and her employer have a singular relationship. They are more like friends than employer and employee, due to events that happened in their mysterious past, a past which is given to us in trickles and drabbles over the course of the book, and […]

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4/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:38 |

“And I may have lost my mind but I believe that I rule my world”

A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas

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While I wanted to enjoy this book much more than I did, it grabbed me enough for me to keep the sequel on my TBR pile. My main issues with it seemed to be that it lacked focus as all the main characters were introduced and found their way to each other which happens sometimes when a book is the first in a series. I think now that all the principles are working together, the sequels will be much more focused moving forward. If the title didn’t clue you in, this is a gender swapped Sherlock Holmes story. The protagonist […]

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4/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |


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