Tag: mystery

BODY OF EVIDENCE Patricia Cornwell, Kay Scarpetta #2 Although this second novel in the Kay Scarpetta series starts in Key West, Florida, the murder and its investigation occur in the victim’s home town of Richmond, Virginia, where Dr. Scarpetta is the Chief Medical Examiner. Actually, several murders occur before Dr. Scarpetta and Pete Marino manage…

MAISIE DOBBS Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs #1 Once again, we are in London, England, where Maisie Dobbs is starting her career as a private investigator. Well, we begin in England, but Jacqueline Winspear takes us to France during the Great War, later known as World War I. Maisie Dobbs was born in the late 1890’s…

A SHOW OF HANDS David Crossman, Winston Crisp #1 Manheim Community Library is featuring an author new to this library: David Crossman. The one book we had had not been catalogued and was not on a shelf, so I took it home to read it. I found Crossman to be a skillful murder mystery writer…

MURDER ON THE LINKS Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot #2 Hercule Poirot demonstrates his prowess as a detective in this next mystery in Ms. Christie’s Poirot series, Murder on the Links. He does this all the while showing great patience with Captain Arthur Hastings who, once again, narrates the story. While Poirot uses psychology to solve…

SAVAGE RUN C. J. Box, Joe Pickett #2 In Savage Run, we go back to Wyoming where Sheriff Barnum candidly asks “Why is it, Game Warden Pickett, that we rarely if ever have any trouble in my county, but every . . . time we find dead bodies strewn about you seem to be standing…

A DANGEROUS MOURNING Anne Perry, William Monk #2 A Dangerous Mourning is the second of the William Monk series, and we are once again in London. Monk continues to grapple with his loss of memory, trying to do his job daily while wishing for, and waiting for, jolts of memory to return. Ms. Perry keeps…

THE CAT WHO ATE DANISH MODERN Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who series #2 In The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern, we travel back to Chicago to find Jim Qwilleran down and out:  he must move out of his apartment, aka “homeless;” the moths are putting holes in his favorite neckties, aka “tieless;” he has…

DEATH AT LA FENICE Donna Leon, Guido Brunetti #1 We travel to Italy for this next murder mystery, Death at La Fenice, and look into the world of opera and talented well-known musicians and the death of an internationally well-known conductor. Donna Leon describes Venice, the canals and waterways, and the life of the police…

A IS FOR ALIBI Sue Grafton, Kinsey Millhone #1 Sue Grafton wrote a series of murder mysteries based in Southern California – Santa Teresa and areas surrounding Los Angeles (at least in this first novel). The titles of her novels begin with a letter of the alphabet – A Is for Alibi, B Is for…

THE CATER STREET HANGMAN Anne Perry, Charlotte and Thomas Pitt #1 Anne Perry wrote another murder mystery series featuring Charlotte and Thomas Pitt. In the first book of the series, The Cater Street Hangman, the two were not an item. Charlotte Ellison lived with her wealthy family in an elite part of London. She was…