Top 12 Mystery Novels of 2017 by Strand Magazine2018 - Willa Literary Award Finalist, Contemporary Fiction"e;Evans' signature archaeological lore adds even more interest to this tale of love, hate, and greed.
"e;This is Ifkovic's eighth outing with Edna Ferber as sleuth, and he brings the characters of post-Great War Chicago to life: the accents, the clothes, the food, the traditions.
Inspector Ghote, 'one of the great creations of detective fiction' (Alexander McCall Smith), accompanies his wife to Calcutta to take charge of an unexpected legacy and encounters corruption, conspiracy .
His old friend Helena Gort calls on Carolus Deene to come to Cat's Cradle, a seaside guest house and find out about two deaths judged respectively "e;natural causes"e; and "e;suicide.
The death of an instructor, a mugging, and another "e;accidental"e; death has Detective Constable Ellis Pooley sending Robert Amiss undercover to investigate Knightsbridge School of English and capture the killer before anymore "e;accidents"e; occur.
"e;Havill is a master at using procedural details to expose the complexities of small-town relationships, but he also excels at drawing meaning from landscape.
Though he did work for a small-town newspaper, Ken Svederup had been around, and to him the expense-paid trip he had won for a front-page news beat seemed pretty phony.
In this debut mystery set in Santa Barbara, movie stars are in town for the film festival, powerful business interests are at stake, and detective Nola MacIntire and her partner, Tony Angelotti, must solve the complicated puzzle behind three seemingly unrelated deaths in this idyllic beach town.
Walking on the sand before breakfast, Carolus Deene's cousin Fay, who was staying on the Suffolk coast, had come upon the head of Lilliane Bomberger, the celebrated and universally detested novelist.
"e;Jake, whose philosophy is 'life is often less about making good decisions than figuring out how to live with bad ones,' takes the reader on a fast, furious, and often hilarious tour.
When jazz journalist Virginia Farrell interviews reclusive singer Betty Brown, Betty shows Virginia priceless tapes from the legendary 1957 Thelonious Monk-John Coltrane gig at the Five Spot.
