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• Along Came a Demon

  
  Kathy's Chaos — Authority: 99
  Along Came a Demon by Linda Welch I read this one on my Kindle and it was not very long, but was very enjoyable. The police department thinks Tiff is a regular psychic, but what she really can do is talk to the newly dead who have died violently and she can identify demons a mile away. Who does the department ...
  1 day ago

• SPQR IV: The Temple of the Muses, by John Maddox Roberts

  
  Shannon A. — Authority: 111
  Just finished The Day of the Muses , which is the fourth SPRQ book by John Roberts. It was a very nice change-of-pace book because it took place in Alexandria (Egypt) rather than Rome. Decius still had his typical problems of facing disbelief or indifference from his Romans peers, but at least the Egyptian King was ...
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• And then there were none

  
  My Quest — Authority: 109
  “Perhaps the greatest mystery novel of all time, “AND THEN THERE WERE NONE” is Agatha Christie’s acclaimed masterpiece of murder and suspense. Ten strangers are gathered together on an isolated island by a mysterious host. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of their wicked pasts. And one by one, ...
  2 days ago

• MYSTERY REVIEW ~ THE BLIGHT WAY!

  
  BISH'S BEAT — Authority: 515
  MYSTERY REVIEW ~ THE BLIGHT WAY! I’ve read the great majority of the collections of Patrick McManus’ humorous columns from the pages of Outdoor Magazine , Field and Stream , and Cannon & Big Knife Hunter Magazine . At times, they’ve made me laugh until my sides ache. So, when McManus took a left turn ...
  5 days ago

• Mystery Book Sleuths Who Happen to Be Rich…

  
  The Cozy Mystery List Blog — Authority: 120
  A while ago I got a recommendation from Denise to include a new mystery book theme to the site. Her wonderful title was "Rich Girl Sleuthing" which I have expanded to include the "Rich Men Can Sleuth, Too." With that said, here is a list of the Cozy sites authors who have written a mystery book (or more!) which ...
  6 days ago

• The Muppet Christmas Carol

  
  The Cozy Mystery List Blog — Authority: 120
  I cannot believe that I have never written an entry about this!!! It is by far one of our VERY favorite Christmas movies, and if you havent gotten a chance to see it, then watch for it! I am hoping that at least one network of the 100s of networks which now  exist airs it this holiday season. (And, good news… ...
  1 week ago

• Christmas Mystery Books before Thanksgiving?!?

  
  The Cozy Mystery List Blog — Authority: 120
  Laura just posted a comment (Thank you, Laura!) for my last entry that reminds me a lot of what I am doing: "Danna: Its already on your Christmas cozy list, but I just finished Emilie Richards, "Let There Be Suspects" and really enjoyed it. I have to read my Christmas books now, because I usually dont have time when ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Floating Admiral by Certain Members of the Detection Club: B-

  
  Soliloquy in Blue — Authority: 471
  Book description: In 1932, thirteen members of London’s exclusive Detection Club—including notables like Dorothy L. Sayers, G. K. Chesteron, and Agatha Christie—decided to undertake a challenging project. As Sayers writes in her introduction, “The problem was made to approach as closely as possible to a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Leslie Meier, Jill Churchill, Kate Borden… Mystery Book Authors with Similar Flairs…

  
  The Cozy Mystery List Blog — Authority: 120
  I just finished my most recent Halloween mystery book by a rather new author (to me, that is!) >>> I read Death of a Trickster and must say that it is definitely a Halloween Cozy … small New England town, amateur sleuth, everybody-knows-everybody feeling, eccentric personalities with hidden personal ...
  2 weeks ago

• Friday Flashback

  
  nichtszusagen — Authority: 121
  From July 2003: The Old Fox Deceivd by Martha Grimes . Mystery. Originally written in 1982, this is a good introduction to Martha Grimess Richard Jury mysteries. I must confess that while Martha Grimes is a familiar name to me in the mystery genre, Id never read any of her books until now. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Worth Reading: Gentlemen and Players

  
  Books Worth Reading — Authority: 117
  Cover of GENTLEMEN AND PLAYERS Gentlemen and Players , Joanne Harris (2005) It helps to think of this novel as a game, and you, the reader, as one of the players. There are many tipoffs that this is exactly the case. The title is one. The second is the chess metaphor for the novel’s narrative structure, ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Shape of Snakes

  
  Flamingo House Happenings — Authority: 126
  I am such a Minette Walters fan. I can’t help it, she’s just awesome. Being such a huge fan, I have no idea why we’ve owned The Shape of Snakes for years and I’ve never made the time to read it. Until now. (Yay me, one more crossed off of the From the Stacks Challenge.) A typical Walters book, a crime (or ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Shape of Dread, by Marcia Muller

  
  Shannon A. — Authority: 111
  Had a lost weekend, in which I pretty much sat at home and read. Since Ive been ahome for about a week now, everything feels foggy and lazy. One of the benefitors of that was The Shape of Dread (1989), the next book in the Sharon McCone series, which I picked up from the library on Saturday and had largely ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey: A

  
  Soliloquy in Blue — Authority: 471
  From the back cover: Confined to a hospital bed, Scotland Yard’s Inspector Grant is engrossed with a portrait of Richard III. How is it possible, he wonders, that such a sensitive-appearing soul could have been the odious villain, the Wicked Uncle responsible for the murder of his own nephews to secure the British ...
  3 weeks ago

• To Love and Be Wise by Josephine Tey: B-

  
  Soliloquy in Blue — Authority: 471
  From the back cover: The advent of Leslie Searle was not a particularly fortunate happening for the village of Salcott St Mary. The American photographed possessed an almost inhuman beauty, and his presence aroused a variety of violent emotions in the small community. Then, one spring night, he disappeared close to ...
  6 weeks ago

• Hangman’s Holiday by Dorothy L. Sayers: B-

  
  Soliloquy in Blue — Authority: 471
  Book description: Amusing and absolutely appalling things happen on the way to the gallows when murder meets Lord Peter Wimsey and the delightful working-class sleuth Montague Egg. This sumptuous feast of criminal doings and undoings includes a vintage double identity and a horrid incident of feline assassination ...
  8 weeks ago

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