Tag Archives: mystery

The Breaker by Minette Walters

Posted on June 2, 2013 by sorioh

Brutally raped and murdered, Kate Sumner’s body washes ashore on a remote bank in Southern England. Elsewhere, her 3-year-old daughter is found abandoned.  The police are left to figure out why Kate was murdered but Hannah, a witness to the … Continue reading →

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Alpha by Greg Rucka

Posted on May 25, 2013 by hanerd

I was looking for a mystery for this month’s Mystery Boot Camp, and I came across Alpha, the kind of book I love to read—suspense/thriller. Jad Bell, an experienced Delta Force operative, has been in many tough and dangerous situations fighting … Continue reading →

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Dark Eye by William Bernhardt

Posted on May 6, 2013 by jordanl

Dark Eye.  Just for entertainment.  A cross between Silence of the Lambs and Rainman.  Darcy, a 25-year-old autistic savant, assists burned out and depressed police detective Susan Pulaski with solving a string of violent murders and helps catch the serial … Continue reading →

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Mystery Boot Camp

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Helen Hokanson

A mystery is a work of fiction in which readers are asked to help solve a puzzle. An element of crime mixed with an element of detection are the two essential ingredients. A crime is committed, an investigator follows clues, … Continue reading →

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Calculated in Death by J. D. Robb

Posted on April 22, 2013 by birminghamn

Calculated in Death is J.D. Robb’s 36th addition to her popular In Death series. In a Manhattan stairwell, a woman is found murdered. It could be a case of mugging gone wrong, but Lieutenant Eve Dallas has her doubts. So … Continue reading →

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The Black Box by Michael Connelly

Posted on April 21, 2013 by martind

I have been reading the Harry Bosch series for 20 years and I have enjoyed every book. His first books in the series were called Black Echo and then Black Ice.  They are well written police procedurals/thrillers/mysteries. The main character … Continue reading →

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The Vanishing Point (Audiobook CD) by Val McDermid

Posted on April 14, 2013 by myersj

When British citizen Stephanie Harker sees someone walking off with her orphaned godson, Jimmy, who is entrusted to her care, she does what any mother would do—she tries to rescue her child. Unfortunately, American airport security at O’Hare International fails … Continue reading →

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The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Posted on April 10, 2013 by sorioh

The first in a series by Danish author Adler-Olsen, the The Keeper of Lost Causes introduces us to Detective Carl Mørck, assigned to head up a newly created Department Q.  Carl is back at work, recovering from a gunshot wound … Continue reading →

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Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff

Posted on April 1, 2013 by taylorb

Hannah is haunted.  Her best friend Lillian—still thin and wasted from the anorexia that killed her—follows Hannah around, commenting on her fake friends, her occasionally grisly job processing police photographs, and especially Finny Boone, a seemingly dangerous boy with a … Continue reading →

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The City & the City by China Miéville

Posted on March 26, 2013 by joshuamneff

With The City & the City, China Miéville has created a fascinating, exciting story that takes a premise that could have come straight from a short story by Jorge Luis Borges and turns it into the kind of hardboiled detective … Continue reading →

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