Category: Mystery
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We return to Victorian England with The September Society, book two of the Charles Lenox mysteries by Charles Finch. It picks up about a year after the end of the first book when Lenox is approached by Lady Annabelle, an acquaintance of his. Lady Annabelle is a widow whose husband passed away years ago when…
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We return to Temperance Brennan with book five, Grave Secrets, by Kathy Reichs. This time around we see Temperance Brennan in Guatemala as she works on finding and identifying the remains of people killed during the civil war a few decades prior. After an attack that led to several colleagues being heavily injured and in…
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The Poacher’s Son by Paul Doiron introduces the young game warden Mike Bowditch in the first Mike Bowditch mystery. Mike is still adjusting to being a rookie game warden and doing his best to learn the tricks of the trade when he receives a middle of the night call about a bear attacking a local…
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Even having finished this one I am still a little unsure what to think of it. The 7 ½ deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton is about a man named Aiden Bishop and his rather unusual quest to identify the killer of Evelyn Hardcastle. At a remote country manor the Hardcastle family is holding…
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Sherlock Holmes & Mr. Hyde by Christian Klaver is the second book in his Classified Dossier series. Having become convinced of the existence of potentially supernatural occurrences after their adventure with Dracula, Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson are more open minded when they are confronted by the resurgence of the continually unsolved case of Jack…
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A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch is the first book in his Charles Lenox mysteries. Charles Lenox is a gentleman living in Victorian England who prefers to spend his time reading obscure literature and histories as he plans to venture around the world to visit historical sights. His reality is more that of a…
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Fatal Voyage is the fourth Temperance Brennan novel by Kathy Reichs. This one starts a bit differently with Brennan getting pulled in to help when a plane crashes in remote woods of the region she works in. One of the first on the scene she rapidly connects with the local sheriff and starts cataloguing the…
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A Solitude of Wolverines is the first book in the Alex Carter series by Alice Henderson. When the book opens Alex Carter is a wildlife biologist living in Boston preparing for a speech about a study on an endangered bird species. The event and thus her speech are interrupted when a shooter decides to take…
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Deadly Décisions is the third Temperance Brennan novel by Kathy Reichs. This time around she is getting involved in the biker gang scene when she is asked to identify the remains of identical twin bikers, something that is rather difficult, and becomes determined to help as the explosion that caused their deaths also killed a…
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This book is exactly what it sounds like. Sherlock Holmes & Count Dracula is the first book in the Classified Dossier series by Christian Klaver. Sherlock Holmes is approached about an unusual incident where a finger was found on a dead body but by all indications the finger has many interesting properties that indicate it…