Beware the English murder village
Think twice before booking that dream vacation to the English countryside.
All posts tagged: Murder Mysteries
When you don’t see it coming
Jackie McMahon’s debut murder mystery was a discovery from DC’s first romance bookstore.
The return of the septuagenarian sleuths
Richard Osman’s second installment of the Thursday Murder Club is just as delightful as the debut.
Navigating small town dynamics
An early work in the Maigret series leads the reader to consider the human condition in all its shades.
A jewel of a novel
The first Elizabeth George novel was the treasure I uncovered on a recent visit to The Lantern Bookshop.
Dark secrets
Reading the first of Ruth Rendell’s famous Inspector Wexford mysteries.
Greed, corruption, and the ongoing degradation of the only earth we have
Syd Stapleton packs a lot of truth into his newest fictional tale of Frank Tomasini and the Molly B.
No holiday for the inspector
Inspector Maigret cannot escape murder and intrigue even while on holiday.
Paradise is not always what it seems
Retired Chicago policeman Cal Hooper finds a small Irish village isn’t as bucolic as he imagined.
The mysteries of the human personality
In the 5th book in the Maigret series, a criminal mastermind doesn’t account for the Inspector’s tenacity.
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