Mystery in White: A Christmas Crime Story (1937) exploits seasonal chill to the max on every possible level. It’s cold, neck-deep in snow–and there might be ghosts or other unearthly things hiding in the shadowy whiteness. The story begins conventionally enough, with a group of strangers stuck on a train that’s stuck in a snowdrift. One of them, an elderly man who seems to know a lot about the paranormal, and the traces left on the present by violent or highly emotionally-charged events of the […]
A gripping and horrific memoir of sorts about religion, music, obsession, electricity, and powers that exist beyond our world.
Something happened. A cursory glimpse at something like Kickstarter will reveal the two dominating themes that almost guarantee a successful project – anything zombie related or anything rooted in H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. The great tentacled one is ubiquitous – pasting his noodles onto board and video games, knitted toys, short films and more. Often this is nothing more than a simple skinning, a mask to cover a flimsy concept that will suddenly sprout gibbering monsters and slippery forms. But there are authors who are […]
Alternative Victorian London with Reptilian Royalty
Let’s see… Steampunk, alternate Victorian London, Reptilian Royalty, diabolical Anarchists . What’s not to like. “The Bookman” is a terrorist who uses exploding books as weapons. Our hero is “The Orphan” who has lost his love to an explosion set off the Bookman at a crowded launch of a space probe to Mars. In his grief, the Orphan is determined to find out the truth about his love’s death and to find out who the Bookman is. His quest takes him into the heart […]
Nazi Hunting in High Places
This debut novel by author Cara Black centers around her heroine Aimee Leduc, a French female private eye who gets mixed up with violent neo-Nazi skinheads, Jewish survivors of the holocaust, and a secret Nazi organization which is staging a comeback and whose tentacles reach into the highest offices in Europe. The author’s scope is ambitious, her history fascinating, her writing is evocative, and I give her extra kudos for creating a female PI when the genre is so male-centric. But her novel’s biggest weakness, […]
This book is no longer on Amazon for some reason
I found Kim Wright’s “City of Mystery” series through Amazon, I’m pretty sure I got the books for my Kindle for free, or close to free. I will always give a free mystery a try (and believe me, there are plenty of lousy ones out there that I’ve happily downloaded and just as happily deleted after the first few chapters). This series is actually quite good. City of Bells, the fourth book, takes place in Calcutta, India. For those of you who aren’t familiar with […]
The First Inspector Cockrill mystery
So I think we’re all aware of my addiction to classic mysteries. I tried the first one in this series, haven’t moved on to the rest, mainly because I wasn’t satisfied with the way it worked out. There are six people staying at Pigeonsford in the English countryside. Grace loves the squire Stephen, but he’s in love with the (very much) younger Francesca. Grace is jealous, of course. Fran shows up in a new hat, and Grace says she wouldn’t be caught dead in a […]
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