MYSTERY
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KILLING IS MY BUSINESS – Adam Christopher
I love this series. I recently reviewed an anthology of humorous sci-fi novellas and I mentioned that I had been in the mood for some good, fun, and funny sci-fi. That anthology did NOT do the trick, but the Ray Electromatic Mystery series works wonderfully. Raymond Electromatic is a robot. He is the last working Continue reading
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THE NINJA’S ILLUSION – Gigi Pandian
I am late to the party when it comes to Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt mysteries. I’ve only read one other before this, but I had enjoyed it quite a bit. In The Ninja’s Illusion a stage magician claims to have real super-natural powers and will be performing, not as a trick but as real magic, Continue reading
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A MAN OF SHADOWS – Jeff Noon
The one sentence, attention-getting note on Goodreads before the book description reads: “The brilliant, mind-bending return to science fiction by one of its most acclaimed visionaries.” Now I can’t say that I’ve read anything by Jeff Noon before this, so I can’t speak to this being a ‘return’ to science fiction or his being a Continue reading
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A SHOT IN THE DARK – Lynne Truss
Wait a minute…this is a comedy? Seriously…is this a comedy? I was attracted to this book because it was described as the beginning of a new mystery series featuring a brilliant and driven police detective, Constable Twitten, and written by a New York Times best-selling author, Lynne Truss. That this first book featured a theatre Continue reading
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DEATH IN D MINOR – Alexia Gordon
Every mystery series has a gimmick (or two) as well as a regular crime-solver (often someone not in police work) and it’s usually the gimmick that will first attract a reader’s attention. That’s how I got interested in this series, anyway. The title of these Gethsemane Brown Mysteries have (so far) had a musical connotation Continue reading
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THE CHEERLEADERS – Kara Thomas
The high school in Sunnybrook does not have cheerleaders. They once did, but in a short time a number of calamities fell on the cheerleaders of Sunnybrook. First there was the car accident and two girls from the cheer squad were killed when their car hit a tree on a rainy night. Then there was Continue reading
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THE ZIG ZAG GIRL – Elly Griffiths
I remember being in my local bookstore, needing a book for a trip that I was taking, somewhat last-minute, and this book caught my eye. A mystery…good. Historical (World War II) references … good. Magicians … great! And fortunately the book lived up to my expectations. It is 1950 in Brighton and Detective Inspector Edgar Continue reading
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A STRANGE SCOTTISH SHORE – Juliana Gray
***WARNING – THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!*** Emmeline Truelove is a very modern woman – modern for 1906 that is. Emmeline is a researcher and works with Maximillian Haywood, currently along the Scottish shore. They are researching an unusual discovery made recently along the Orkney Islands…a suit of clothing, which, according to family legend, belonged Continue reading
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ROOM FOR DOUBT – Nancy Cole Silverman
Room for Doubt is the fourth book in the Carol Childs Mystery series by Nancy Cole Silverman. This is a series that started off a little rough for me but has gotten better with each book and holds true to that here with number four. Carol Childs is a radio reporter in Los Angeles and Continue reading
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BEFORE THE FALL – Noah Hawley
Artist Scott Burroughs almost misses the his plane. From Martha’s vineyard, a wealthy media mogul and his family are flying a private jet to New York. The wife of the powerful family patriarch had befriended Scott not too long prior and had invited him to take the trip with them as long as they were Continue reading
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AN OATH OF DOGS – Wendy N. Wagner
Now this is an interesting book that is just a little bit hard to categorize. Part sci-fi, part mystery, a little YA, and part environmental fiction. Kate Standish is a communications engineer with a service dog (Hattie). They have arrived on the moon colony of Huginn in the Yggdrasil system and will be working in Continue reading
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A REAL PIECE OF WORK – Chris Orcutt
The only disappointing part of reading this book is finishing it, because now I’ve read the series and there are no others (currently). Former FBI agent and modern PI, Dakota Stevens brings his partner, the beautiful and brilliant Svetlana Krüsh, into a case that starts as a ‘simple’ art scam and becomes a problem of Continue reading
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