Category: crime
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I’ll be honest. If I were to one day meet a sudden, mysterious, and untimely death, I’d likely want this author to investigate and write a book about it. Say Nothing was a great read and introduced me to him. I saw London Falling as one of his newest books to come out, read a…
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Fans of CJ Sansom’s Matthew Shardlake historical mystery series will likely feel right at home here with John Pilkington’s Bishopsgate Ward series. The first of three, Death of a Stranger, introduces us to constable Matthew Cutler. Set in around 1594, it’s right after the London plague, and things are only starting to resemble a normal…
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In the first book in the Frankie Elkin series by Lisa Gardner, readers are introduced to a woman in her mid-forties whose one main goal and purpose is to help find missing people. This is a weird character because Frankie is not a professional private investigator nor a part of some retired police force. All…
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I found myself enjoying this story quite a bit. It wasn’t perfect, but it kept me glued to the story till the very end. Anatomy of an Alibi by Ashley Elston is about two completely different women having to team up to spy on one of their husbands for different reasons. Both are near strangers,…
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Let’s face it. Not many journalists can do what the author of this book did. To investigate a story and crime in the past, regardless of how infamous it is, for nearly twenty years is quite an achievement. The amount of frustration due to roadblocks and threats would likely make all but the most seasoned…
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The Engine House by Rhys Dylan is a good start to a series that consists of 20 books. It was offered via Prime Reading, and I think that was a good idea, as I likely would not have picked it up otherwise. I was surprised at how drawn in I was to the mystery and…
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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a Russian literary novel first published in 1880. The version I’ve read, newly translated in 2024, is from Michael R. Katz. I first heard of this novel after having read The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong, in which the main character attempts to read the hefty novel.…
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The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt is a coming-of-age fiction novel that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2014. It’s a wonderful novel but one that requires patience, being that it is over 700 pages long. It explores the grief and sadness of a young boy as he is forced to grow up having lost his mother…
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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon chronicles a journalist’s exclusive one-year police “internship” in 1988, within Baltimore’s homicide investigative department. This is truly a remarkable piece of journalism. It’s hard and gritty, something you’d obviously expect coming into the book, but the author makes reading all six hundred pages a breeze.…
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The Housemaid’s Secret by Frieda McFadden is the second book in The Housemaid trilogy. I remember really liking The Housemaid, so I was really hyped for this second installment. Being that the stories are not really interconnected, reading the previous books isn’t a requirement. This one has a nice psychological twist, but I don’t believe…
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