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Last Square for the Blackout! Also, a great Halloween read.

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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Last Bingo: Reader’s Choice to cover “Two Heads are Better than One” I’ve been seeing Gideon The Ninth hyped all over social media for months, and it sounded really cool and interesting. To cite the blurb across the front cover: “Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!”  This is actually a largely accurate description of the premise: the immortal Emperor sends out a message to the nobles (ie- necromancers) of each of the 9 Houses in this universe to send their strongest necromancer-heir along with a cavalier (body-guard with sword) to his home where the 9 groups will […]

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9/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:74 |

Murder and medical procedures most horrid

The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry

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Set in 1840s Edinburgh, The Way of All Flesh is a diverting tale of murder as well as a horrifying eye opener on the obstetrics of the time that made me wonder more than once how enough women have ever survived childbirth to have continued the human race. Will Raven has accrued more than just an education whilst studying to become a doctor. Having become friendly with a sex worker, Evie, Raven has borrowed heavily for some ne’erdowells to help her out of a situation, only for her to turn up dead. Still pursued by the debt-collecting heavies, Raven takes […]

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8/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:27 |

A Study in Spoilers

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

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(I realize I’m crossing fictional detective streams here with my review title, but it felt appropriate.) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is often considered one of Agatha Christie’s best novels, and I’ve been excited to get to it as I work my way through all the Poirot novels in order. However, when I started reading it, I realized I was already familiar with the story. While the first two Poirot novels and short story collection are narrated by Poirot’s friend, Captain Hastings, the captain doesn’t appear in this book. Instead, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is narrated by a Dr. […]

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8/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:23 |

Revenge Killing or Just Another White Guy Killing His Family as A Result of Economic Despair?

The Dry by Jane Harper

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Bingo Square: Far and Away I wish I had been more creative with this square and done something other than physical distance but I was in the mood for a murder mystery, and Australia is definitely one of those places I have never been close enough to seriously considering visiting.  Throw in rural Australia, and it’s even farther away. After twenty years away from his home town, Aaron Falk is back.  Tragedy forced him out of town, and tragedy has brought him back. Twenty years ago, Falk and his father left after local teen Ellie was found dead in the […]

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7/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

“You see, Watson, but you do not observe.”

House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz

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CBR11bingo: Remix I recently had the good fortune to discover Anthony Horowitz, so my expectations were high when I picked up House of Silk, the author’s Sherlock Holmes mystery. I’ll get right to the point: He exceeded my expectations by a wide margin. The estate of Arthur Conan Doyle commissioned Horowitz to write a Sherlock Holmes novel, and their faith proves to be well placed. Horowitz so beautifully captures the voice of John Watson, who characteristically tells the tale, that the novel slides effortlessly into the Sherlock Holmes canon. Horowitz puts the novel in context by explaining why we are […]

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7/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:27 |

I’ve discovered Anthony Horowitz, and I couldn’t be happier

The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz

The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz

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That’s right, I’ve discovered this wonderful mystery writer. Granted, it’s in much the same way that Columbus discovered the New World, and I imagine my fellow Cannonballers looking at me with bemused expressions and saying, “Blimey, mate, he’s been here for ages if you’d bothered to look.” My fellow Cannonballers are all British in this scenario, and they are also correct. Name recognition, which came from reading several reviews on this site, was responsible for my interest in these novels as much as the intriguing descriptions on the dust jackets. I knew almost immediately that I would enjoy this series, […]

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6/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:25 |

Murder at the Magic School

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

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I’ve not had a lot of luck with things highly recommended and hyped by authors whose works I’ve enjoyed.  V.E. Schwab might be an exception. I found out about the impending publication of Magic For Liars from her social media, and picked it up as soon as it came out. The descriptions of the premise as something between Harry Potter and The Magicians is also reasonably accurate; another point for the book, since I frequently don’t quite agree with the blurbs either. The basic idea is that Ivy, a non-magic PI with several deep personal issues, takes the case of […]

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6/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:40 |

Consider my Pot, Boiled

A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark

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It started with John Constantine, grouchy creepy detective magician, solving petty punk mysteries and sassing demons.  I love a good pot boiler, but I like them with wizards, or gods, or most preferably ghosts.  My collection is an embarrassment of sassy magicians solving ghost crimes. An anonymous Twitter surfaced in my feed one day to recommend the short story A Dead Djinn in Cairo. Special Investigator Fatma el-Sha’arawi of the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities must investigate the potential suicide of powerful djinn and oh my god five pages in I already knew I was going to buy […]

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5/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |


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