Category: Mystery

August 20, 2025

Malice by Keigo Higashino *** (of 4)

Keigo Higashino is Japan's most decorated mystery writer, and this book, Malice, the first in a series, catapulted him to fame. Unlike nearly any other...

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July 30, 2025

The Slip by Lucas Schaefer **** (of 4)

Nathaniel Rothstein, a high schooler in Newton, Massachusetts, beats up a student even dorkier than himself. His mother, beside herself, ships him off for the...

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June 2, 2025

The Lock-Up by John Banville ** (of 4)

The remarkably prolific Irish writer, John Banville, gives his take on Jews in Ireland soon after the end of WW II. Rosa Jacobs is a...

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May 5, 2025

Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson *** (of 4)

This is Kate Atkinson’s sixth in her series of Jackson Brody novels. Brody is former British police, now private investigator, called upon to look for...

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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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