Archive for the ‘murder mystery’ Category

CEMETERY DANCE by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Fast-paced action introduces the reader to “vГґdou, obeah” and zombies of Louisiana backwater origins, with the murder of Nora Kelly’s husband by a neighbor who is described as having an unnatural pallor. A repeat character in the Pendergast series, Nora lives in New York City’s tony Upper West Side on West End Avenue…

May 13, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Beyond Reality, FBI, New York City, Sleuth Series, Zombie, murder mystery  No Comments

SWEETNESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE by Alan Bradley

It is 1950. At Buckshaw, her family’s old country estate, wronged Flavia de Luce is out for vengeance and poison is her weapon of choice. This eleven-year-old British girl, whose passion is unquestionably “the central science,” has access to a thoroughly outfitted lab, and plenty of plants in the garden from which to distill gleaming liquids of wicked retribution.

April 28, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Amateur Detective, Debut Novel, Humorous, United Kingdom, murder mystery  No Comments

FLIPPING OUT by Marshall Karp

LAPD Homicide Detectives Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs meet partners in crime, Detectives Reggie Drabyak, Tony Dominguez and Charlie Knoll at a “Sunday debriefing” on Reggie’s fishing boat. Cop talk is out - cards, beer and banter is in. The guys call it a night at around 10:00 PM. Reg decides to sleep on his boat because his wife, Jo, an event planner, is working a wedding and won’t be home until the early hours. Monday morning, early, Lomax and Biggs are notified that Jo Drabyak has been shot and killed, mob style, with a bullet in the back of the head.

April 17, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: California, Humorous, Police, Sleuth Series, murder mystery  No Comments

REVELATION by C. J. Sansom

C. J. Sansom’s Revelation takes place in 1543, a tumultuous year in English history. Religious fanaticism is on the rise among Protestants and Catholics alike; Henry VIII, who is ailing, has been urging Lady Catherine Parr to become his sixth wife, but she is reluctant to accept his proposal; the chasm between rich and poor is huge, with filthy, starving, and often mentally ill beggars crowding the thoroughfares…In this, the fourth installment in Sansom’s splendid series, the narrator, forty-year old lawyer Matthew Shardlake, seems to have finally found peace of mind.

April 16, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Lawyer, Sleuth Series, Tudor, murder mystery  No Comments