BOOK REVIEW: AGATHA CHRISTIE’S GOLDEN AGE – VOLUME II: MISS MARPLE AND THE OTHER GOLDEN AGE PUZZLES
AGATHA CHRISTIE’S GOLDEN AGE, VOLUME II: MISS MARPLE AND THE OTHER GOLDEN AGE PUZZLES By John Goddard Wimbledon, UK: Stylish Eye Press, 2021. $68.99 ($18.99 paperback) A little more than two years ago, I reviewed John Goddard’s terrific book Agatha Christie’s Golden...
DVD REVIEW: MARE OF EASTTOWN
DVD Review: Mare of Easttown MARE OF EASTTOWN HBO, 2021. $24.98 DVD, $22.99 Blu-Ray Mare of Easttown, HBO’s latest crime-centric “limited series,” is both brilliant and pedestrian. There is a lot to rave about here—most notably the excellent cast, particularly Kate...
BOOK REVIEW: THE THREE LOCKS, BY BONNIE MACBIRD
THE THREE LOCKS By Bonnie MacBird London: Collins Crime Club, 2021. $26.99 The Three Locks is Bonnie MacBird’s fourth novel continuing the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. It’s largely successful, with some twisty mysteries and some colorful settings and...
Five of the top psychological thrillers that use isolated locations
Five of the top psychological thrillers that use isolated locations I love an isolated setting for a book, especially in a thriller. I think it adds to the unease and atmosphere and, if done well, the setting can become a character in its own right. It taps...
Interview with Carsten Stroud
Author of New York Times bestseller Close Pursuit and Arthur Ellis Award winner Sniper’s Moon, Carsten Stroud has been writing and publishing novels for over thirty years. Writing from his home in Toronto, Ontario, Carsten mostly draws on inspiration outside of the...
Top 30 Mystery Novels of 2022
Top 30 Mystery Novels of 2022 (In no order of importance or rank, they all are number one!) The Lost Man of Bombay by Vaseem Khan (Hodder & Stoughton) Khan does a great job of combining humor, and mayhem, in a historical setting. His books are series books that...
THE INVOICE
By Erika Bolstad My book was done. Off to the printers. So I was wary when an envelope showed up with documents my aunt found after her husband died. She thought they might be fodder for my book, Windfall, a memoir driven by a family mystery concerning...
Interview with Warren C. Easley
Author Warren C. Easley began his journey as a full-fledged novel writer when he picked up a pen and notebook out of boredom on a plane. The twenty-three pages that came out of that flight sparked the fire that would result in the award-winning Cal Claxton Mysteries....
INTERVIEW WITH S.K WATERS
Can you tell us a little about your debut novel “The Dead Won’t Tell”? It’s an edgy Southern mystery. Abbie, a failed historian turned journalist, chases down the cold case murder of a young Black girl the night when, on July 24, 1969, the Apollo 11 crew returned to...
INTERVIEW WITH ADAM HAMDY
Can you tell us a little about your latest release “The Other Side of Night”? The Other Side of Night follows Harriet Kealty, a disgraced former police officer who discovers a message written in an old library book. At a loose end in life, unable to shake the...
Book Review: A Cryptic Clue by Victoria Gilbert
Available 11 July, 2023 Jane Hunter is a retiring professional librarian and archivist, pushed out of her career path by a younger crowd and tough economic times. Divorced from her abusive husband, and with her grown actress daughter touring the world, Jane takes a...
Book Review: Master of Mysteries by Gelett Burgess
Available 03 Jan 2023 What's a high-functioning Sherlock Holmes type to do in the face of a gullible, tarot-believing public? Fleece them for everything they're worth, while solving all of their crimes, of course! Together with his charming assistant Valeska Wynne,...