A Quiet Teacher by Adam Oyebanji

November 05, 2022

I don’t know why I put off reading A Quiet Teacher by Adam Oyebanji. Perhaps it was the cover, which just didn’t appeal to me. Maybe it was the summary. However, the book wasn’t at all what I expected, and I found myself rooting for the protagonist,...

The Perfect Crime, ed. by Vaseem Khan and Maxim Jakubowski

November 02, 2022

The Perfect Crime is subtitled “22 Crime Stories from Diverse Cultures Around the World”. The book features writers of color and various ethnic backgrounds. “Gathered together for the first time are authors from a variety of culture and ethnic...

No Strangers Here by Carlene O’Connor

October 25, 2022

I like Carlene O’Connor’s Irish Village mysteries, a cozy series set in her imaginary town of Kilbane, County Cork, Ireland. But, she’s topped that entire series with the darker mystery set in Dingle in County Kerry. The atmosphere is perfect, and...

Voice of Fear by Heather Graham

October 19, 2022

The 38th Krewe of Hunters novel by Heather Graham, Voice of Fear, is the third in her recent trilogy featuring the Law triplets. It’s also the best of the three, and the least gruesome. Patrick Law, a criminal psychologist and psychiatrist, teams up with rookie...

The Socialite’s Guide to Murder by S. K. Golden

October 09, 2022

Hotels have always been popular as settings for crime fiction. In the last few years, though, there’s been an element added. Maybe it was there before, and I wasn’t aware of it. In Audrey Keown’s Hotel 1911 mysteries, the amateur sleuth, a hotel...