Life’s full of regrets, mistakes, lost opportunities and bad memories. Sometimes you can see them in someone’s eyes or the way they act, but sometimes they’re hidden under nonchalance and a bright smile. But imagine if you couldn’t hide it-if everyone could see your past sins in a physical form?
My first Maigret
I know, I know. Why has it taken me this long to get around to reading Georges Simenon’s great series about the formidable Detective Chief Inspector Maigret? Too many books and so little time, perhaps. Well, I am going to be taking care of that tout suite. This book is the 4th Maigret book, part of the new English translations the publisher Penguin is rolling out. Maigret is on his way back from Brussels when he notices a shabbily dressed man stuffing a lot of […]
Another Bess Crawford
I often wonder whether it’s a good thing that I have this tendency toward sticking with a series, regardless whether my level of interest or love for it has waned. It has to get pretty bad, or never be good at all, for me to stop before the end. So here I am, writing up the sixth and surely penultimate if not final, entry into Charles Todd’s Bess Crawford mystery series. This entry is called An Unwilling Accomplice, and we find our heroine Bess at […]
An ambitious, delightful but very messy Shakespeare murder mystery
This Shakespearean “who-dun-it” is a delightful contribution to this particular genre of historical mystery. It is a glorious mash-up of DaVinci Code-like code-breaking and world-hopping combined with the inexhaustible debate over the disputed authorship of Shakespeare’s plays, and of course, the identity of Shakespeare himself. The chapters jump back and forth between the period of Shakespeare and the present-day, where people within the literary, academic and theater worlds are dying like Shakespeare’s characters, and no one has a clue who the bad guy is, including […]
The title of this book is a euphemism for LJG investigating a dude who has syphilis on his peen.
I really didn’t expect to like this book as much as I did, even harboring affection Gabaldon’s Outlander books, and especially the character of Lord John Grey, whom I find to be adorable and heartbreaking. The Lord John Grey series is a spin-off of Outlander, following Lord John Grey, a character first introduced in Dragonfly in Amber as a sixteen year old boy who encounters Jamie and Claire the night before the battle at Prestonpans, but he’s most prominent (at least as far as I’ve […]
More seediness in Neptune
Mr. Kiss and Tell dives a bit more into the politics of Neptune, an always enjoyable seedy area to explore. Petra Landros has once again hired Veronica to investigate — this time, the alleged rape and beating of a girl who had stayed at the Neptune Grand. The victim claims an employee of the hotel committed the crime, and she’s suing to cover her medical costs. Landros wants to know if he did it (the accused skipped town), and Veronica wants to find out the truth (that’s what […]
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