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international mystery

Book Review: The 9th Man by Steve Berry and Grant Blackwood

By Jeff Ayers

August 11, 2023

Luke Daniels, a character from the Cotton Malone novels who works at the Magellan Billet with Malone, gets the spotlight in this co-authored thriller.  He receives a call from an old friend, Jillian, in desperate need of his help, and Luke arrives to battle a team of operatives determined to kill her.  Soon they are…

Book Review: The Last Remains by Elly Griffiths

By Doreen Sheridan

May 23, 2023

Archaeologist and university lecturer Dr. Ruth Galloway is used to being sent for whenever human bones are found, even before the police are called in. It helps, of course, that she has a good relationship with the local North Norfolk constabulary. One would think she’d have a great relationship however, given her long-standing romance with…

Book Review: Philanthropists by Rozlan Mohd Noor

By Doreen Sheridan

April 6, 2023

It’s another slow night for Inspector Mislan Abdul Latif of the Kuala Lumpur Police Contingent’s Office of Special Investigations (D9) when he gets a call from one of the police districts under his unit’s purview. The investigating officer (IO) first called to the scene of a shooting has requested that the D9 step in to…

Ten of the Most Unusual Places in Fiction

By Elly Griffiths

November 16, 2022

Years ago, I had lunch with some friends in a London restaurant. It was in a courtyard near Holborn, a strange cobbled yard with a stranger name: Bleeding Heart Yard.  When I got home, I Googled the location and found that, in the seventeenth-century, a woman called Elizabeth Hatton (of Hatton Garden fame) was murdered…

Book Review: The Drowning Sea by Sarah Stewart Taylor

By Janet Webb

July 27, 2022

Maggie D’arcy is an unforgettable character. In The Drowning Sea she throws caution to the wind and moves to Ireland for the summer. Her life-changing decision is made easier by the difficult circumstances that led to her losing her job as a homicide detective on Long Island, a story told in A Distant Grave. Her…

Book Review: Death On Gokumon Island by Seishi Yokomizo

By Doreen Sheridan

July 22, 2022

What a pleasure to finally have the words of Seishi Yokomizo translated into English! Louise Heal Kawai does a wonderful job of translating classic mystery novels, opening up an entirely new collection of books for non-Japanese-speaking fans of Golden Age traditional mysteries to enjoy. Death On Gokumon Island opens as Japanese soldiers—including our hero Kosuke…

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