One Half Truth by Eva Dolan

July 17, 2021

While I love police procedurals, the sixth book in Eva Dolan’s award-winning Zigac and Ferreira series, One Half Truth, is a little too step-by-step even for me. However, it’s an excellent story involving British social issues. Anyone who has followed the...

Bones of Hilo by Eric Redman

June 09, 2021

While Eric Redman’s Bones of Hilo is a police procedural, it’s actually a novel that highlights the history and culture of Hawaii, and the opposition to ongoing development. All of those points can be covered in the mystery because the young, inexperienced...

The Vanishing Museum on the Rue Mistral by M.L. Longworth

April 21, 2021

While M.L. Longworth’s The Vanishing Museum on the Rue Mistral is the ninth Provencal mystery, I had no problem starting with this one. You can certainly pick up the series here. It’s an unusual book, set in Aix-en-Provence and other towns in the area, a...

A Deadly Twist by Jeffrey Siger

April 06, 2021

Greece is just as beautiful as always in the eleventh book in Jeffrey Siger’s Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis mystery. But, as the title A Deadly Twist indicates, it’s just as politically corrupt and dangerous as in the other books in the series. Crime...

Checkmate to Murder by E.C.R. Lorac

March 10, 2021

“‘Detection isn’t based on brilliant flashes of intuition – at least, mine isn’t. It’s based on a reconstruction of possibilities.'” That’s E.C.R. Lorac’s Detective Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald of Scotland Yard...