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This will be a short review considering the length of the book

Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith

May 15, 2022 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

I started reading this series during the early days of the pandemic, and it’s proven to be satisfying, escapist fun for me. I stumbled upon this latest entry in one of my local Little Free Libraries, so I decided to read it before CBR BINGO hits, because at 927 pages, there’s no way I was going to let it eat up prime BINGO scoring time. That said, I’m going to write this review in list form of likes and dislikes. Dislikes: 927 pages. There is […]

Vino with Guido

Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon

January 28, 2022 by Halbs Leave a Comment

Death at La Fenice is the first of 31 Commissario Brunetti mysteries. If you haven’t heard of this series, which began in 1992, Commissario Brunetti is a middle-aged detective in Venice, Italy. This inaugural mystery begins with a very dead, very famous maestro found on the floor of his dressing room. Tragic? Yes. But also very inconvenient – he died during the intermission of an opera! Word quickly spreads, as do the rumors and innuendo. Did he die of old age? Was he murdered? With […]

Even the Dog Can’t Save It

Bear Witness by Lark O Jensen

January 24, 2022 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Stacie is a tour guide, introducing people to Alaskan wildlife from a boat. When a man vanishes from the tour, she thinks he’s stowed away to cause trouble. But when his body is discovered out amid the ice floes, she realizes that there is something far worse at play. I really wanted to like this book. The premise sounds so cool and so eerie, the idea of a body bobbing out in the frigid Alaskan waters. Unfortunately the story goes downhill from there. My main […]

When You’re Too Hard Core for Raymond Chandler

Fast One by Paul Cain

September 22, 2021 by elderberrywine 2 Comments

Bingo square – People This noir classic was created when Paul Cain patched together five stories that he had written for the detective magazine Black Mask. Published in 1933, it soon became famous as the book that was just too hardboiled to be fashioned into a movie. And seriously, it is, even by today’s standards. Daaaaamn son. Paul Cain was by then a slippery character in Hollywood. That was not his real name, nobody was quite sure where he was from (spoiler, Iowa, actually), and […]

And then there were…

The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji

April 5, 2021 by Rooooomie Leave a Comment

I’m not really into classic detective fiction. While I definitely enjoy a mystery and a puzzle (ooh, and a murder!) in whatever I read, I’ve not once had the urge to pick up a Sherlock Holmes novel, and only vaguely know about Agatha Christie’s famous stories. In fact, while The Decagon House Murders is loosely based on Christie’s And Then There Were None, I only knew about the latter’s infamously racist original title, nothing about the story itself. Decagon is, as I learned, a prime example […]

Surprised by an oldie

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

March 8, 2021 by kimberleybear Leave a Comment

[Read as an audiobook from the public library] I hesitated to add this one because it’s just so old, but I honestly enjoyed it when I listened to it in January and it kicked off a good fit of audiobook consumption so I thought, might as well. My real introduction to Agatha Christie came with Phoebe Judge’s Phoebe Reads a Mystery podcast, when she read The Mysterious Affair at Styles. I have a collection of Christie mysteries knocking around the house somewhere, but I could […]

Malin on Strangers on a Train with no murder involved!This seems great! Onto the TBR it goes.
Malin on “It’s never a good thing when the black volhv says ‘Uh-oh’ and then runs for his life.”Nope, once they publish Ruby Fever in August, they're basically free to do their own thing.
Emmalita on The world is a constant compromise, a greeting of the other and of yourself.She plays with different genres and I don't think everything works for everyone. This one worked for me immediately. Velvet was the Night required more...
narfna on “It’s never a good thing when the black volhv says ‘Uh-oh’ and then runs for his life.”Oh, I didn't know they were going full self-pub now! I knew the Innkeeper Chronicles were self-published, but I guess I thought it was a...
Malin on “It’s never a good thing when the black volhv says ‘Uh-oh’ and then runs for his life.”I think that a Roman book is one of the things that House Andrews have promised may happen in the future now that they're not...

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