Category: Mystery

March 18, 2025

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman *** (of 4)

Richard Osman has taken a bread from his retired senior citizens of the Thursday Murder Club. His new crew of investigators include Amy Wheeler, a...

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December 13, 2024

Creation Lake ** (of 4) by Rachel Kushner

A left-wing philosopher advocates that it is time for humanity to returning to nature, but sends his diatribes via e-mail. Acolytes reading his emails in...

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July 12, 2024

Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley *** (of 4)

Joe King Oliver is, no, was, a NYC cop. He was sent to Rikers after being framed for molesting a perp. Now, a dozen years...

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June 10, 2024

Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March *** (of 4)

It is 1892. India is a British colony and Indians, at least upper class Indians, aspire to move up the British hierarchy. Two young women...

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March 25, 2024

The Golden Gate by Amy Chua *** (of 4)

Detective Al Sullivan’s first big murder case erupts when former presidential candidate Walter Wilkinson (modeled on FDR’s 1940 opponent Wendell Wilkie) is shot in his...

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January 26, 2024

A Disappearance in Fiji *** (of 4)

Sargent Akal Singh has been banished to desk duty in Fiji. The year is 1915 and Britain rules its colonies with guile, brutality, and economic...

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October 27, 2023

The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman *** (of 4)

In this fourth installation of the Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman’s four 80-year-old residents (plus or minus, but who can keep track at that age...

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September 21, 2023

The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith

On the plus side there are very few writers who can match JK Rowling’s (writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith) ability to capture personality, dialogue,...

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August 2, 2023

Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne **** (of 4)

In 1939, Raymond Chandler wroteThe Big Sleep featuring, Private Investigator Philip Marlowe. Marlowe was the original world weary, cynical PI: hard drinking, self-mocking, and a...

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July 18, 2023

The Poison Machine *** (of 4)

Some authors of historical fiction (see Geraldine Brooks) are so caught up by their research that plot and characters are afterthoughts or cliches applied to...

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