After several years, Ann Cleeves has brought back DI Jimmy Perez! DI Perez has left Shetland and settled into his new home in the Orkney Islands, with his partner in crime and in life, Willow Reeves, and they're expecting a baby. After a wild storm, Archie Stout, a local personality and Perez's childhood friend, is …
Continue reading The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves (Shetland #9, Perez & Reeves #1)
A heavily pregnant Sargent Hill and DCI Lloyd (her partner on and off the job), are helping out at the local amateur dramatic society right before Christmas when the DCI gets a call that the local GPs wife has been found murdered in her home. The GP happens to be part of the play, and …
Continue reading Scene Of Crime: A Christmas Murder Mystery by Jill McGown
Florence, 1538. We find Aldo working outside Florence, having run afoul of the moral code of his naive but honest protege, Strocchi, who threatened to expose his secrets. When he arrests a thief on a country estate, he finds himself on the fringes of the Constables disturbing case: a man was burned to death in …
Set in an alternate late 50's Hollywood, Joseph McCarthy has been made president of a Far Right government after rooting out the alleged Communists in his HUAC witch hunt, and the major studios pump out propaganda. Baker is a Holocaust survivor turned detective who is pulled off the case of a double homicide by McCarthyist …
When a fifteen year old boy, the middle child in a well-to-do Copenhagen family, goes missing, all the clue that's left behind is an odd letter left on the table. Is this a kidnapping? What does the note mean? Detective's Werner and Korner are on the case to find the missing boy, but there will …
Jen is a police officer, off duty and at a friends get together, when a man approaches her. She's too drunk to really engage with him, but he seems to want to talk to her in a professional capacity. The next day, he's found dead, murdered in his daughters art studio. Was the killer someone …
Set in 1500's Florence, City Of Vengeance is the first in a series about Cesare Aldo, an officer for the city's criminal court, in a capacity similar to a detective or policeman. When a Jewish moneylender that he has a connection to turns up murdered, the pressure is on to solve the case and find …
I love film noir. I'm really into classic movies in general, but the way that film noir movies are bleak, urban, sometimes mysterious, full of men who can't get a break, femme fatales in sharp hats, and the inevitability of fate... It's such a great genre. Many of these movies were lost and the whole …
Karen is struggling following the recent death of her husband, and might be starting to remember something about the events of years ago, but can she trust her mind not to play tricks on her? Meanwhile, two swimmers find the body of a girl left in the peat bog. The preserved remains could be the …
Continue reading The Innocent Dead (Rhona MacLeod #15) by Lin Anderson
The Darkest Evening is the ninth and latest from Ann Cleeves series featuring detective Vera Stanhope. Vera is driving back from the office when she goes off course in a snowstorm, and comes across a car left with it's door open and an unattended baby inside. As there is no one nearby, she takes the …
Continue reading The Darkest Evening (Vera Stanhope Mystery #9) by Ann Cleeves
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