Category: crime
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Here is the sixth and second-to-last book in C. J. Sansom’s Shardlake mystery series. Although this novel is starting to show some weakness, as one would likely expect when a series has gone well past the typical trilogy, I found Lamentation to be just as enjoyable as the previous books. With Master Shardlake once again…
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The King’s Justice by E.M. Powell is a nice start to her Stanton and Barling medieval mystery novel series. I’m having a fun time finishing the Shardlake series, with just two more to go in the collection. The King’s Justice is on a similar type of footing but much shorter and a little bit more…
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I don’t believe I’ve read The Maid’s Diary, but I have had the privilege of reading The Patient’s Secret by the same author and enjoyed it. The Black Orchid was offered as this month’s First Read for Amazon Prime members, and I immediately snatched it up. Books offered in this program are usually a hit…
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Looking for a great and fun read that will remind you of Redwall but one that’s a bit darker and more dystopian? Look no further than Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I think this one is a bit unusual for the author but one that is surprisingly good. In a scientific future world where…
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Heather by Caitlin Mullen is a mediocre, middle-of-the-road, typical crime novel. It’s one of those novels I swear I’ve read somewhere else. It has your typical newly installed police chief/detective in a small town, bringing with them their own personal problems from before. Is the chief overworked and understaffed? Of course they are. Is the…
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I had thought that learning about L. Ron Hubbard’s Scientology in Going Clear by Lawrence Wright would have been the kookiest and nuttiest thing I’d ever read regarding religion and cults. Charles Manson is definitely another very weird chapter in American history, but I feel that both can’t really compare to the story of the…
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As someone who is not familiar with the JFK assassination that happened in the early 1960s, The Housewives Underground by Kaitlyn Tiffany is surprisingly a very good start and not for what you’d first expect. After more than six decades, there are a lot of books on this subject and I’m sure each of them…
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The fifth book in the Matthew Shardlake series by C.J. Sansom, and it’s one of the best so far. It is likely one of the longest books in the series so far, if memory serves me correctly. In truly spectacular fashion, the author seems to have drawn me into Tudor London yet again. I believe…
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I’ve read a couple of investigative journalism novels by Erik Larson, and they were mostly enjoyable. The Devil in the White City, while still enjoyable, warrants a strong caution for any readers thinking this will be yet another typical true crime thriller in which either the hunt for or the life of the criminal dominates…
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Chalk this one up as another must-read novel for fans of nonfiction true crime and investigative journalism. It’s an incredible story about a serial killer in Italy that began in the late 1960s and has yet to be identified to this day—and likely never will be. In this book, a local crime reporter teams up…
