Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

June 06, 2017

Anthony Horowitz’ clever, beautifully pitched Magpie Murders is one of the two best books I’ve read so far this year (Lori Rader-Day’s The Day I Died is the other.). Horowitz’ voice is perfect for a “British whodunit with a country...

The Sixth Victim by Tessa Harris

May 31, 2017

Tessa Harris launches a new series with a mystery that takes readers back to 1888 and the streets of Whitechapel. Stories of Jack the Ripper frightened and tantalized the residents of London’s East End. Now, in The Sixth Victim, Harris tells of a few women...

Sidney Chambers and the Persistence of Love by James Runcie

May 23, 2017

Although this latest book by James Runcie is part of “The Grantchester Mysteries”, Sidney Chambers and the Persistence of Love really has very little mystery in it. At least, not mystery as crime fiction readers think of it. The stories in this collection...

Party Girls Die in Pearls by Plum Sykes

May 21, 2017

Plum Sykes, author of Bergdorf Blondes, now sets her sights on Oxford, England in the 1980s, and a group of college students who are pretentious, too wealthy for their own good, and only interested in partying. Party Girls Die in Pearls is the first Oxford Girl...

Devil’s Breath by G. M. Malliet

April 16, 2017

Max Tudor comes out of retirement (was he ever really in retirement?) to assist MI5 and DCI Cotton with a case out of Agatha Christie in G. M. Malliet’s latest mystery, Devil’s Breath. It’s a mystery for those who appreciate convoluted,...