Verona is full of guests prepared to celebrate the wedding of their prince and Rosaline, daughter of Romeo and Juliet. The Capulets and Montagues are tensing for a fight that Rosaline hopes to head off. Then, a poisoner starts working in their midst. Christina Dodd’s irreverent, bawdy Daughter of Montague series continues with another light […]
Exactly what adaptions and movies are there out there for Agatha Christie books? Are they faithful adaptions and what are their little quirks? Teresa Peschel delights readers with her journey through all the films and TV adaptions of Agatha Christie’s books that were made in the English language. Organized by Christie detective starting with […]
When murder disrupts the set, Jack Warner turns to the detecting pair who solved the case and saved his last big movie mystery. Elizabeth Crowens’ Golden Age of Hollywood historical mystery came to my attention and the nostalgia for old black and whites, movie popcorn, and classy movie quotes and stars made me weak […]
A bounty hunting team gets offered a new skip and its not long before the skip turns into something bigger, badder, and they’re in way over their head in no time. Winter Austin is a new to me author as is the Bounty of Shadows series, but I wasn’t even off the first page when […]
Before London’s police force came into being and murder required investigating, the Home Office sent out the cold, clever inquiry agent that sent shivers down the back of the hardened predators slinking through dark alleys. RJ Koreto’s Winter’s Season was my first intro to his writing. I found between the covers a well-researched historical backdrop, […]
A competitive, clue-filled treasure hunt for a rare book… snowed in during the Christmas holidays… in a Scottish Castle. I ask you, could you resist such a temptation? I couldn’t and so I snatched up this latest by an author I’ve been meaning to try for a while now. Mirren, a rare book dealer is […]
India during the British Raj period was a bustling time and place- and ripe for murder. An experienced chief inspector of Hyderabad’s police discovers a murder victim who has been chillingly presented in a method that harkens back to Jack the Ripper. Forced to work with a British colonial policeman with a chip on his […]
When a Renaissance-era Montague with a fiery temper has her own trick turned against her, she might take a while to reconcile to a forced engagement. Meanwhile, the shadows of a murder darken the corridors of the prince’s palace while malice stalks the dark streets of Verona. Christina Dodd follows up A Daughter of Fair […]
A near future LA that is mostly underwater where everything revolves around info rather than money is the backdrop to this noir style murder mystery. Cory O’Brien is a debut author and I was eager to give his cyberpunk noir mystery a shot because I was intrigued by this genre blend. Two Truths and a […]
I have seen Richard Swan‘s name a lot lately, being praised for a different trilogy and since I am a huge fan of fantasy in almost all of its forms I was excited to pick up Grave Empire which is grimdark or fantasy/horror almost. This is the first book in The Great Silence Trilogy, set […]