Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
I start my day before sunrise, throwing on running clothes and laying a pinch of semaa at the eastern base of a tree, where sunlight will touch the tobacco first. Prayers...
Tagged: Mystery
The Life of Crime by Martin Edwards
I love mysteries and crime fiction. I love reading them and reading about them. In this book, “Martin Edwards has drawn on his experience as an award-winning novelist to capture the...
Before She Was Found by Heather Gudenkauf
This novel, published in 2019 by Park Row, shines as both a psychological thriller and mystery! The mystery ‘event’ is based on a true crime case (Slender Man) and includes three...
Every Man a King by Walter Mosley
Every Man a King is the title of a radio address delivered in 1934 by Senator Huey Long of Louisiana. In the speech, Senator Long railed against the concentration of wealth...
Conviction by Denise Mina
I must have placed at least 100 tabs on amazingly written passages of this book, and I have added all of Denise Mina’s other books to my ‘Goodreads Want to Read...
Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin (translator Hildegarde Serle)
Published in 2020, by Europa Editions UK, Fresh Water for Flowers is Valérie Perrin’s English debut. It is one of the best novels I have read in 2021; a triumph that...
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
The crime at the heart of this novel occurs in 1826 in London: Frannie Langton is accused of the brutal double murder of her employers George Benham, who is a famous...
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
“As far as he could see, the land stretched out, deep and open, all the way to the desert. A perfect sea of nothingness. If someone was looking for oblivion, that...
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P.D. James
Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more!Macbeth does murder sleep’, the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleeve of care,The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath,Balm...
The Little Bookstore Murder: A Julia Greene Travel Mystery by Linda Clayton
The game’s afoot on Hilton Head Island. Olivia and Julia, owners of Little Bites, a lunchroom and bakery in Wake Forest, North Carolina are attending a conference on the South Carolina...
