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Aggressively fine one-sitting read

Someone We Know by Shari Lapena

July 10, 2020 by chilejamie Leave a Comment

A woman goes missing in a close-knit neighborhood in Shari Lapena’s Someone We Know. Her husband is clearly a psychopath, but then again, the woman has committed the grave sin of being an attractive flirt. Shortly into the novel, the woman is found in the trunk of her own car, kicking off a a pretty straightforward whodunnit. Told mostly from the perspective of a neighbor of the murdered woman, the plot adds a wrinkle right off the bat: the neighbor’s son has been breaking into […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #mystery, cbr12bingo, Shari Lapena

chilejamie's CBR12 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #mystery, cbr12bingo, Shari Lapena ·
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I Think I’ve Read This One Before

The Trespasser by Tana French

January 31, 2020 by caragwapa 2 Comments

When I like a book, I have the tendency to obsessively read everything the author has ever wrote.  Such was the case after I read In the Woods by Tana French.  I loved the atmosphere, the mystery, and especially the characters.  I of course, read all the Tana French books I could find.  When I was going through the epub files in my laptop to find a quick read, I was pleasantly surprised to find a French book I haven’t read yet.  Or have I? […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: #mystery, crime thriller, Female Detective, Tana French

caragwapa's CBR12 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: #mystery, crime thriller, Female Detective, Tana French ·
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I Loved Laura, Except for . . .

Laura by Vera Caspary

September 23, 2019 by xoxoxoe Leave a Comment

Another book from my personal challenge of reading the source material for favorite classic movies: Laura, by Vera Caspary. This book is a detective noir, as hard-boiled and cynical as any of the genre, but written by a woman. It was originally published, a la Dickens, as a serial, “Ring Twice for Laura,” in Colliers Magazine in 1942/43. The  classic film noir, starring Gene Tierney as Laura and Dana Andrews as a detective who finds himself falling in love with a dead woman as he […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Suspense Tagged With: #detectivefiction, #mystery, 1940s, detective noir, Laura, mystery, Noir, Vera Caspary

xoxoxoe's CBR11 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Suspense · Tags: #detectivefiction, #mystery, 1940s, detective noir, Laura, mystery, Noir, Vera Caspary ·
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Miss Marple: the Complete Short Stories

Miss Marple Solves It Again (and Again and Again)

Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie

September 22, 2019 by xoxoxoe Leave a Comment

Keeping up my summer tradition of an Agatha Christie re-read I picked up Miss Marple: the Complete Short Stories. Hercule Poirot has always been my favorite Christie sleuth – it must be the Virgo in me that loves his precise mode of detection. I like a few of the Miss Marple novels, but wasn’t as familiar with the short stories. What’s great about Christie is that her books, no matter how intricately plotted, are (like Stephen King’s) character-driven. So, even if you have read them before […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: #mystery, agatha christie, miss marple, short story

xoxoxoe's CBR11 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: #mystery, agatha christie, miss marple, short story ·
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We get it, they’re out to get you.

The Trespasser by Tana French

September 4, 2019 by LadyStardust 1 Comment

When Aislinn Murray is found dead in her home, alongside a table set for a romantic dinner, it seems like a classic case of “the boyfriend did it” to Detective Antoinette Conway. But further exploration of Aislinn’s past and cryptic clues from her close friends seem to point to something more sinister, along with the nagging feeling Antoinette had met the victim before. The core story of The Trespasser was a decently engaging mystery, with an end that I didn’t fully see coming, but didn’t […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: #crimefiction, #mystery, cbr11, Fiction, Tana French, the trespasser

LadyStardust's CBR11 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: #crimefiction, #mystery, cbr11, Fiction, Tana French, the trespasser ·
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