Be not afraid
An installment of the Chief Inspector Gamache series is fast-paced, layered, and ultimately satisfying.
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.
Bringing a measure of justice to an unjust world
Donna Leon’s latest mystery continues to explore “the ambiguity between moral and legal justice.”
Fiction as a pathway to the truth
Syd Stapleton answers my questions about his novel, an environmental disaster cloaked as a whodunit.
An ingenious whodunit within a whodunit
A tale of intrigue involving an editor, her crime-writing author, and his detective, Atticus Pünd.
Things take their course
While not in the top tier of Christie novels, “The Mystery of the Blue Train” is nonetheless worth the ride.
Truth can be elusive
I return to read the first in the Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery series.
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.
MORE TO COME... 