When James Taylor was in school, he and his two best friends were known as the Three Musketeers because they were inseparable, but as they grew up, they also grew apart. As the novel opens, James is at Barnie's funeral, thinking that his friend didn't turn out so well and he's only attending for old …
Continue reading One Of Us Is Dead (Roy Grace #21) by Peter James
When the body of a missing staff member is found in the early hours on the common outside Rosebank, a care home for teens, DCI Vera Stanhope is assigned the case. The death seems linked to missing 14 year old Chloe, which is unsettling. Vera does not want to believe that a troubled 14 year …
Continue reading The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves (Vera Stanhope #11)
Alfred, a true Hitchcock fan, has opened a hotel themed after the movies by his favourite director, and it's full of memorabilia and references to films like North By Northwest, The Birds, Vertigo and more. When the hotel reaches it's first anniversary, he decides to invite his former college film studies buddies for a celebration, …
I was very excited to get my hot little hands on the latest volume of the Cesare Aldo series. This is a crime mystery series set in 1500's Florence, and A Divine Fury is the fourth book in the series. (For reviews or more information about the other titles, Ritual Of Fire HERE, The Darkest …
Continue reading A Divine Fury by DV Bishop (Cesare Aldo Book #4)
The interconnected night time lives of different in habitants of Tokyo are explored in this slim book, with each chapter starting at 1AM. Mitsuki works at a movie prop warehouse and has to source loquat fruits in the middle of the night. Kanako works at a 24 hour advice call centre and has a brother …
In 1979, 9 year old Michelle Fortier, the child of a wealthy family, went missing without a trace from her home in a small town in Quebec. Years later, following her failure to launch a podcast about the mystery and start a new life in the city, Stephanie, the daughter of the town drunk, decides …
Coco does not know anyone on Nantucket, when she follows wealthy newcomers the Richardsons to the island where they have just bought a huge house and hired her as a concierge. They are also new in town, and their wild ways and wealth have everyone talking, right up until one night after a party, their …
Conrad the talking calico cat is back, with Lulu, the retired detective. This time, they've taken their canal boat home up to Oxford, for a friend's birthday party in their country mansion, but plans go awry. On arrival, they find an art robbery and a murder have taken place, and they are out of party …
Continue reading The Cat Who Solved Three Murders by LT Shearer
After almost 20 books in the Roy Grace series by Peter James, we finally find answers to the question of what happened to our main characters first wife Sandy... At the start of this series, Roy Grace has the shadow of his missing wife Sandy hanging over him, which was such a great background mystery …
Continue reading They Thought I Was Dead: Sandy’s Story by Pater James
When Case arrives at her best friend Drea's house in the West Texas woods, she finds her friend isn't there to meet her, and not only do her housemates not know where she is, but they seem to know something they're not saying... Taking place over 24 hours, Case finds hidden journal pages and strange …
Continue reading Clever Creatures Of The Night by Samantha Mabry
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