Category: Mystery

January 29, 2016

Murder on the Kibbutz by Batya Gur **** (of 4)

There are several reasons to read murder mysteries. After all, the expectation upon opening the book is something really awful must happen before the story can...

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October 21, 2015

Vulture Peak by John Burdett *** (of 5)

The fifth in the series for Royal Thai Police Detective, Sonchai Jitpleecheep. The crime this time takes place on the exclusively wealthy hilltop above Bangkok of...

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March 15, 2015

The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith *** (of 4)

Let’s begin with the fact that I picked up the book after the world discovered that Robert Galbraith was a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling. I can’t...

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February 10, 2015

The Alienist by Caleb Carr ** (of 4)

In the 1890s, Theodore Roosevelt did not yet have presidential ambitions. As a young man he was trying to sweep corruption from the halls of New...

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October 23, 2014

The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny **** (of 4)

Sixteen monks live in an isolated Canadian monastery dedicated to Pure Gregorian Chant, God, and the obscure Saint Gilbert. Until there are fifteen monks because the...

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July 21, 2014

Shake Off by Mischa Hiller **** (of 4)

The protagonist, he goes by several aliases, but Michel Khoury appears to be his given name, is a former Palestinian refugee from Lebanon. His parents...

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July 6, 2014

The Tears of Autumn by Charles McCrarry *** (of 4)

OK, it’s a period piece Spy Novel. Think Ian Fleming. Sean Connery. In this caper, Paul Christopher works for the CIA and he speeds around the...

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March 19, 2014

An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris *** (of 4)

Robert Harris makes his living fictionalizing famous historical events (see Pompeii). In this case, it is the end of the nineteenth century, and the French...

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February 9, 2014

Black and White and Dead All Over by John Darnton *** (of 5)

A despised editor of a very thinly disguised New York Times is found spread-eagled and more than dead in the basement of the paper’s headquarters....

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December 8, 2013

How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny **** (of 5)

The ninth book in the Detective Armand Gamache series is a completely lovable installment. Gamache must locate a missing person with a false identity at...

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