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“You tell your lies and you think nobody knows. But there are two people who know. Yes – two people. One is le bon Dieu – and the other is Hercule Poirot.”

The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #6) by Agatha Christie

October 28, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

This one wasn’t my favorite, though I liked it quite a bit by the end. I had a hard time at first getting a handle on the arc of the story, and Poirot doesn’t come in until about chapter ten, so there are just a bunch of POV characters you’re introduced to before you have any context for why they’re important to the story. I fully realize this is a technique employed by many books I have enjoyed in the past, but there was something […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: agatha christie, Detective Fiction, Hercule Poirot, murder mystery, mystery, narfna, the mystery of the blue train, whodunnit

narfna's CBR12 Review No:155 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: agatha christie, Detective Fiction, Hercule Poirot, murder mystery, mystery, narfna, the mystery of the blue train, whodunnit ·
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“You’ll light your own bloody self on fire if you have to. And then you can pat yourself on the back and tell yourself you knew it all along. Congratulations.”

The Trespassser (Dublin Murder Squad, #6) by Tana French

October 15, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

Short review for a book that has too much to talk about for me without writing a dissertation. I just find Antoinette Conway to be such an interesting narrator, and I love the way French plays off Conway’s weaknesses with the murder of Aislinn Murray. I had actually forgotten almost everything about this book, except how thorny Conway was as a narrator, and how her paranoia SPOILERS ended up being mostly unjustified END SPOILERS. I had also forgotten how angry Conway made me in her […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: crime, Detective Fiction, dublin murder squad, Irish, mystery, narfna, re-reads, Tana French, the trespasser

narfna's CBR12 Review No:149 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: crime, Detective Fiction, dublin murder squad, Irish, mystery, narfna, re-reads, Tana French, the trespasser ·
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Just what I needed to cure the pandemic blues

The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith

July 27, 2020 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

CBR12 BINGO: Book Club Under normal circumstances, I’d be spending a good chunk of my Saturdays volunteering at the zoo. Obviously, that isn’t happening right now, because pandemic. One consequence of that is I haven’t been able to see much of the other volunteers that I frequently spend my Saturdays with, except for a couple of Zoom meetings. I made a casual suggestion that we could form a book club; one person got excited and ran with it, and we ended up with a small […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: cbr12, cbr12bingo, cormoran strike, Detective Fiction, detective series, KimMiE", Robert Galbraith

KimMiE"'s CBR12 Review No:28 · Genres: Mystery, Suspense · Tags: cbr12, cbr12bingo, cormoran strike, Detective Fiction, detective series, KimMiE", Robert Galbraith ·
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Murder she solved

The Skull Beneath the Skin by P.D. James

July 17, 2020 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

The Skull Beneath the Skin is the 3rd and final novel in the brick of a P.D. James compilation I’ve been reading.  Luckily things went out on a high note as this last novel was my favourite of the three.  Unlike the previous two novels (The Black Tower and Death of an Expert Witness), The Skull Beneath the Skin is a Cordelia Gray mystery (the others featured her Scotland Yard detective, Adam Dalgliesh). The mystery in Skull Beneath the Skin kicks off after Cordelia, who […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: cbr12bingo, Detective Fiction, Dorset, P.D. James, Red, Skull Beneath the Skin

Wanderlustful's CBR12 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: cbr12bingo, Detective Fiction, Dorset, P.D. James, Red, Skull Beneath the Skin ·
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A detective story you can actually (maybe) solve before the end.

The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada

March 25, 2020 by kimberleybear Leave a Comment

This is another book I got from the recommendation section of I Don’t Even Own a Television. It is an admitted failing of mine that I haven’t read a whole lot of non-western fiction. We own more than a few untouched Haruki Murakami books. I’ve seen a fair amount of Korean and Chinese film, but that’s not at all the same thing. So probably the biggest hurdle I had to get over in reading this was getting past the frequent digressions into memories and emotions […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Detective Fiction, Japanese fiction, murder mystery, Soji Shimada

kimberleybear's CBR12 Review No:9 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Detective Fiction, Japanese fiction, murder mystery, Soji Shimada ·
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