Murder at Whitby Abbey by Cassandra Clark

August 20, 2019

As a reviewer who gets thrust into the middle of a number of mystery series, I’m getting to be an expert in whether or not readers can pick up a book if they haven’t read previous ones. Murder at Whitby Abbey is the tenth in Cassandra Clark’s...

The Mausoleum by David Mark

June 02, 2019

David Mark’s standalone thriller, The Mausoleum, is a difficult book to discuss. The flap doesn’t do it justice, but to reveal too much more will give away the story. At the same time, it was also a difficult book to read, told in alternating chapters by...

Dead End by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

April 27, 2019

Detective Inspector Bill Slider and Detective Sergeant Jim Atherton have two different views of their latest investigation in Cynthia Harrod-Eagles’ fourth Bill Slider mystery, Dead End. It’s another fascinating police procedural with characters who...

The Dark Winter by David Mark

April 23, 2019

I’m always happy to stumble across a police procedural series in which the officer’s family life is included. My all-time favorite example of this is Dorothy Simpson’s Luke Thanet series, set in Kent, England. David Mark introduces Detective Sergeant...

Orchestrated Death by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

March 27, 2019

I didn’t know how the first Bill Slider mystery would hold up. I hadn’t read any of the books in the series when I received the most recent one, Headlong, for review. I’m a fan of police procedurals, and this book introduced me to a group of...