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A well written mystery book drives me nuts trying to figure out who did it: Do I overthink things or is the obvious? A good author like Agatha Christie can keep you guessing right up until the final reveal.

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Book Review The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley thumbnail Flavia de Luce is an 11 year old with a passion for chemistry living in 1950s English countryside in Buckshaw, the family mansion, with her stamp collecting father and two sisters Ophelia and Daphne. … 2023-08-26
Book Review Blood on the Mink by Robert Silverberg thumbnail “Blood on the Mink” consists of three stories: “Blood on the Mink” and two smaller stories, “Dangerous Doll”, and “One Night of Violence”. In “Blood on the Mink” an undercover agent takes the identity… 2021-12-11
Book Review Mrs Mohr Goes Missing by Maryla Szymiczkowa thumbnail In late 19th century Cracow, Poland social climber Zofia Turbotynska is organizing a charity raffle. Approaching the local retirement home her plans are somewhat disturbed when one of the residents, Mrs… 2021-07-19
Book Review Past Mortem by Ben Elton thumbnail Detective Inspector Edward Newson of the Metropolitan Police is called to investigate the murder of a wealthy, though disliked, businessman who was killed in an incredibly sadistic and unusual manner…. 2021-06-05
Book Review The Taking of Annie Thorne by C.J. Tudor thumbnail When he was a child, Joe Thorne's little sister Annie went missing in their town of Arnhill. When she returned, she never told anyone where she was and she was not the same. Many years later, Joe returns… 2021-04-10
Book Review The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor thumbnail A promising novel debut from Tudor containing a mystery that will keep you guessing until the final pages. Eddie Adams is a teacher living in his childhood home in Anderbury, a quiet town that has been… 2020-12-31
Book Review The Twenty-Year Death: Malniveau Prison by Ariel S. Winter thumbnail In 1930s rural France a body is found lying in the gutter during a rainstorm. Despite being stabbed the clothing is undamaged but most mysterious of all is that it is the body of convict from the local… 2020-06-13
Book Review The Twenty-Year Death: The Falling Star by Ariel S. Winter thumbnail In 1940s Hollywood, Dennis Foster a “hard-boiled” private detective is hired by Merton Stein Productions to protect a rising star. When another actress is found brutally murdered Foster is fired but takes… 2020-06-13
Book Review End of Watch by Stephen King thumbnail

The third book in the “(Detective) Bill Hodges” trilogy, following “Mr. Mercedes” and “Finders Keepers” sees the criminal Detective Bill Hodges thought he had permanently put away (by way of, literally,…

2019-09-15
Book Review The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz thumbnail

The famous detective Sherlock Holmes is called on to find the identity of a scar-faced stalker who it is feared is from “The Flat Cap Gang”, a criminal gang from the United States involved murder and theft….

2019-01-01
Book Review A Winter Haunting by Dan Simmons thumbnail

Dale Stewart, a college professor and writer of trashy action novels returns to Elm Haven, the town he grew up in, to escape from a life that has been unravelling around him. His career in tatters as is…

2015-06-26
Book Review The Canongate Strangler by Angus McAllister thumbnail

Edward Middleton, a respectable lawyer in Edinburgh finds himself witnessing the stalking and eventual strangulation of an innocent woman as though it was he himself doing it - through the eyes of the…

2014-12-31
Book Review Spook Country by William Gibson thumbnail

Perhaps better known for his Science Fiction (including the seminal Neuromancer and Count Zero) Gibson here turns his ultra-hip writing style to the world of intrigue.

A shipping container is touring…

2013-02-09
Book Review The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

This final chapter in the Millenium series picks up where The Girl Who Played With Fire left off (stop reading now if you haven't read it yet!) with Lisbeth Salander being taken to the hospital suffering…

2012-07-11
Book Review The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

The second novel in the popular Millennium series follows the later experiences of the hacker-extraordinaire Lisbeth Salander and her friend Mikael Blomkvist, the investigative reporter now exhonerated…

2011-03-12
Book Review Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon by Larry Millett, and John H. Watson thumbnail

A “long-lost” tale of Sherlock Holmes and his companion, Dr. Watson discovered by the “editor” Larry Millet. This adventure takes place in Minnesota when they are hired by a railway magnate, James Hill,…

2010-04-18
Book Review The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The journalist Mikael Blomkvist co-owner of the Millennium magazine has had a tough year. Seemingly set-up by a old friend, he published an expose into a powerful industrialist…and has been found guilty…

2010-01-09
Book Review Crooked House by Agatha Christie

An light “whodunit” by the master of crime fiction. Charles Hayward (son of the Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard) is “assigned” the duty of watching his “bride-to-be”'s family (the Leonides) when…

Book Review Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie

Set in ancient Egypt, Christie takes us into another time so tragically similar to ours as one by one the members of a wealthy family are murdered. The story is told from the viewpoint of Renisenb, the…

Book Review On the Street Where You Live by Mary Higgins Clark

Emily Graham has just moved into her ideal home in the quiet community of Spring Lake, New Jersey just a short drive from the job she has in New York. No sooner has she moved in when the body of a missing…