Don’t mess with the septuagenarian sleuths
Richard Osman’s debut novel was a perfect wrap to my year of reading dangerously.
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.
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.
Exploring the mysteries of the human personality
Georges Simenon’s Maigret uses skill and empathy to discover the murderer of a burglar he respected.
Things are not always what they seem
In Agatha Christie’s skillful hands, an inheritance and a family of suspects make for a challenging mystery.
A lie never lives to be old
Peter Swanson has written a thriller full of plot twists, lies, and intrigue.
Piecing together the puzzle
So much of life — like a good crime novel — is working to figure out the puzzle.
