Truth can be elusive
I return to read the first in the Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery series.
All posts filed under: Reading Dangerously (AKA Murder Mysteries)
During the pandemic I began reading murder mysteries as a way to pass the time (and find stories that generally came to a satisfactory conclusion). I called it my Year of Reading Dangerously . . . and it has just continued.
Just rewards
Two murders in Venice lead to long buried secrets about collaboration that few want revealed.
Looking for solutions
We turn to Agatha Christie to find solutions in a world that often seems confusing.
Swift and satisfying
Richard Jury seeks the murderer of rich American tourists right in Shakespeare’s beloved town.
Don’t mess with the septuagenarian sleuths
Richard Osman’s debut novel was a perfect wrap to my year of reading dangerously.
The girl with the troubled eyes
Hercule Poirot pieces together a strange puzzle with a resemblance to a crime he can’t quite recall.
A classic of detective fiction turns 100
Dorothy Sayers’ first crime novel is as delightful to read now as it was 100 years ago.
Late to the party
This bleak, prosaic story of duplicity and espionage is one of the greatest spy novels of all time.
Destroying what is beautiful
The second in Donna Leon’s long-running Commissario Guio Brunetti mystery series.
The dark underworld of the soul
Come and explore a modern, sexy, complex crime novel by a Norwegian master of the genre.
MORE TO COME... 