Monthly Archives: April 2017

 Western fans will be heartened to know that the library was new stories by Dusty Richards (Valley of Bones and Deadly is the Night) and Cotton Smith (Death Mask and Ride for Rule). They are all about ranchers and rangers and renegades riding … Continue reading →

   In Exit West by Moshin Hamid, a young couple seeks refuge from their war torn homeland.  Their path leads them through fictitious doors:  to a crowded camp on the Greek Island of Mykonos, an abandoned London mansion, and to … Continue reading →

   Just in:  The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck. In this novel, widows and children of resistance leaders in the failed plot to kill Hitler have taken refuge within the walls of one of the survivor’s Bavarian castle.  … Continue reading →

Earthly Remains, Donna Leon’s latest Commissario Guido Brunetti case, finds the Commissario in the hospital after suffering a seizure during an interrogation.  Prescribed to take some needed rest, he settles in at a villa on a sparsely inhabited island in the Venetian … Continue reading →

Mary Higgin’s Clark’s All by Myself, Alone (print and CD) is a classic whodunit in which a glamorous cruise turns deadly.   In The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves,  Vera Stanhope must piece together the truth about a suspicious suicide. This … Continue reading →

Intrigue, suspense and perhaps a shudder awaits with these stories of real-life crimes. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann (Lost City of Z) recounts a series of startling murders on the oil-rich Osage reservation in the 1920’s, eventually prompting the … Continue reading →

The stories are not about whodunnit but whathappensnext.  The Fix by Dave Baldacci begins with Amos (Memory Man) Decker witnessing an execution-style murder just outside FBI headquarters.  There is no apparent link between the shooter and his victim or motive … Continue reading →

There is still time to borrow, read and talk about Hamilton by Ron Chernow.  Though never President, he had enormous influence, from framing our constitution to laying the groundwork for our financial system.  All it took was a Broadway musical (based … Continue reading →

Phillip Kerr has created on of crime fictions most interesting characters in Bernie Gunther.  A police officer in Nazi Berlin, he must walk a thin red line between integrity and complicity from the world war to the cold war. Prussian Blue (2017) is set … Continue reading →

   Attention, crime and mystery readers! Would you enjoy getting together to talk about your favorite genre with like-minded readers?  There is plenty to explore, from different sub-genres of mysteries (cozies, noirs, procedurals) to exotic locales to historic periods. Let … Continue reading →