Mystery
CONTEST OVER (One reader today through Sunday night will win BOTH this audio book and another one. See end of post.) Destination: Michigan, near Traverse City Audio Book: Love in a Nutshell by Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly Put the mystery writer Janet Evanovich together with romance writer Dorien Kelly and this is what you [...]
PDF Scary Reads? Not all of the mystery novels I have reviewed are about a place as creepy as Cora Harrison’s Burren of Ireland (♥)or Martin Cruz Smith’s Wolves Eat Dogs (♥♥♥♥). I’m wrapping up the two weeks of scary things and mystery novels with a list of some of the reader-preferred mysteries, with hearts to denote how fast they’ll [...]
Destination: Russia Book: Wolves Eat Dogs, an Arkady Renko Novel by Martin Cruz Smith (2004) Here is a fitting horror story for Halloween in the 21st century. Death by radiation poisoning. Life in a dead zone. When we were fortunate enough to meet Martin Cruz Smith last March, and accompany him around Tucson during the [...]
Destination: Ireland Book: My Lady Judge: A Mystery of Medieval Ireland by Cora Harrison (2007) The Burren of Ireland fascinated me when we traveled through County Clare. Long, flat tables of gray stone stretch toward the sea. Cracks and ridges and deep fissures make walking across the limestone ground an adventure. Lovely little wild flowers [...]
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NOTE: Today launches two weeks of mystery novels and other scary things–leading up to Halloween. Don’t be afraid –plunge right in and enjoy the murder and mayhem! And remember, there are still a few books to give away in the Giant 25-Book Giveaway. So subscribe, tell me in a comment you have subscribed, tweet a [...]
Destination: England Book: Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (2003) It’s a cozy, or is it? A mystery novel that sidesteps blood and merciless beatings for a more measured and intellectual approach to solving crimes is called a cozy. Maisie Dobbs, the first in a series of (so far) seven novels written by Jacqueline Winspear, introduces [...]
Want to track down the locales of a Portugal mystery so you can plan travel to Lisbon? Because so many readers were interested in the review of A Small Death in Lisbon, I am very happy to share some portions of the latest Pack A Book newsletter detailing locations discussed in that novel, and what they [...]
Destination: Portugal Book: A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson The intense drama of A Small Death in Lisbon zigzags between the 1940′s and 1990′s and between a Nazi thriller and a police procedural, but the focus is always Portugal, and mostly Lisbon. Print PDF
Destination: Montreal area, Canada Book: A Trick of the Light: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny (NEW 8/30/2011) from St. Martin’s Press and Macmillan Audio Thank you, Macmillan Audio, for sending me on CD just in time for my road trip to Santa Fe. A mystery is just the thing for our road [...]
