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Review: Moriarty (Sherlock Holmes by Anthony Horowitz #2) by Anthony Horowitz
Shortly after Sherlock Holmes and his adversary, James Moriarty, go over Reichenbach Falls a body is pulled from the water. American detective, Frederick Chase, rushed to Switzerland where he hopes to identify the body as Moriarty’s and ultimately recover a letter sent from notorious American criminal, Clarence Devereux. Devereux and Moriarty had planned to form a partnership that would make them the most formidable crime syndicate in Britain and America. But with Moriarty dead, that leaves Devereux holding the reigns. Chase plans to stop Devereux by any means necessary. When he arrives are Reichenbach falls he meets British detective Athelney Jones who has learned many of Sherlock Holmes’s methods of deduction. The soon…
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Review: Mrs Roosevelt’s Confidante (Maggie Hope Mystery #5) by Susan Elia MacNeal
Maggie Hope has just landed state side after being in England for quite some time. She has come with Prime Minister Churchill and the rest of his cabinet to meet with President Roosevelt weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The two world leaders plan on presenting a unified front to the world as allies in the wars against Germany and the Japanese but their relationship is tedious. Any little scandal could threaten to undo their diplomatic relationship. And the murder of a White House aide qualifies as a scandal! Mrs Roosevelt’s secretary, Blanche, failed to show up for work and Mrs Roosevelt herself insists on checking up on her.…
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Review: The Mystery of the Lost Cezanne (Verlaque and Bonnet #5) by M. L. Longworth
This book combined three of my favorite things…..art, France, and mystery. Judge Antoine Verlaque is enjoying his life and work in the small town of Aix-en-Provence. Provence was once home to the art worlds most famous painters, Paul Cezanne. A friend in Judge Verlaque’s cigar club asks him to visit René Rouquet, a man who not only lives in Cezanne’s old apartment, but thinks he found a previously unknown Cezanne portrait. When the Judge and his friend arrive at Rouquet’s apartment, they are shocked to find him dead…..and the canvas is missing. After tracking down the canvas, the Judge and his girl friend Marine Bonnet, begin looking into the canvas’s authenticity. The woman in the portrait is clearly…
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Review: Nerve by Dick Francis
Steeplechase is an equestrian sport that takes a very special kind of athlete. Jockeys have to be a little crazy, fearless, and sort of adrenaline junkies to enter into the sport. Rob Finn has that special combination of crazy and fearless….all he cares about is racing and winning. Literally nothing else matters to him. Finn is working his way up in the steeplechase world and basically has nerves of steel but he is always picked to ride second rate horses. Then the day comes where he is in the right place at the right time, a fellow jockey takes a spill and Finn is hired to ride in his place. But then Finn…
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Review: A Curious Beginning (Veronica Speedwell Mystery #1) by Deanna Raybourn
Veronica Speedwell is finally free from her spinster aunts! Not that she is rejoicing in their deaths or anything but she has longed to be free to travel the world in pursuit of butterflies and a few romantic liaisons. She is not just an amateur butterfly collector, but a scientist, lepidopterist, and lover of natural science in particular. When a mysterious German baron shows up on the day of her aunt’s funeral proclaiming that it is a matter of life and death that she come with him to London, she agrees but not because she is afraid for her life but because he promises a free ticket to London. When they…
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Announcement: Winner DRY BONES (Walt Longmire #11) by Craig Johnson
And the winner of the giveaway for DRY BONES (Walt Longmire #11) by Craig Johnson is….. Carl S (subscribes to blog) The winner will be notified via email. Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to the publisher for making this giveaway possible!
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Special Feature/Excerpt: RUINS OF WAR by John A Connell
A chilling novel of murder and madness in post-World War II Germany… Berkley Publishing Group is thrilled to announce the publication of John A. Connell’s RUINS OF WAR (Berkley Hardcover; May 5, 2015; 978-0-425-27895-6; $26.95). An exciting debut thriller featuring a fascinating new character in Chief Warrant Officer Mason Collins—former Chicago homicide detective, U.S. soldier, prisoner of war, and now U.S. Army criminal investigator in the American Zone of Occupation in Munich. At a time when the worst horrors of the war are coming to light, there is another horror that is running rampant in the street. In the winter of 1945, seven months after the Nazi defeat, Munich is…
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Review: The Fatal Flame (Timothy Wilde Mysteries #3) by Lyndsay Faye
Wow, completely different than what I was expecting! This book is a very uniquely written mystery and I loved it. I have never read anything by Faye before, but what a treat it was! Her writing style is so different and raw. It’s almost had a film noir feel to it….gritty, dark, and real but at the same time oddly addicting. In New York City, an arsonist threatens Alderman Robert Symmes, a corrupt and powerful leader high in the Tammany Hall gang ranks. Copper Star detective, Timothy Wilde is investigating the arson situation when the love of his life, Mercy Underhill, suddenly shows up on his door step and takes in an…
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Giveaway/Special Feature: DRY BONES (Walt Longmire #11) by Craig Johnson
DRY BONES by Craig Johnson is the 13th book in the mystery series featuring Sheriff Walt Longmire, the series that inspired the hit TV show, Longmire , which has been picked up by Netflix for its fourth season. In DRY BONES , Walt Longmire, Wyoming’s beloved lawman, must solve his coldest case yet when a T. rex skeleton surfaces—along with a dead rancher—in Absaroka County. Thanks to the publisher, this week’s bitchin’ giveaway is for: DRY BONES by Craig Johnson! Giveaway runs 5/18/15 to 5/24/15 Winners will be announced 5/25/15. (how to enter) On this blog you must leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway. Your comment MUST include your…
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Review: Dead Cert by Dick Francis
Horses and murder in the English countryside…..how can I resist a book like that? Jockey, Alan York, is riding in a steeplechase race when his long time friend, Bill Davidson, takes a terrible fall over the last fence. Alan finishes the race in first place and rushes back to check on his friend. Bill is quickly taken to the hospital but it is too late, he is dead. Alan examine the fence where Bill went down and discovers the remains of a wire, indicating that the fall was anything but an accident. The dark world of horse racing and bookmaking is one that Alan is familiar with. He knows the…