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★★★★☆ Murder in multiple guises invades the six intimate stories of death in P.D. James’ Sleep No More, with emphasis not on the victims but the perpetrators and how they came to commit this ultimate...
★★★★☆ The name “Dorothy B. Hughes” may not be one that elicits immediate recognition from casual readers of noir fiction, though that should change with the release of a new edition of her much...
★★★★☆ Lisbeth Salander is back! In all her dark glory, she is fighting against the forces of institutional greed that seek to control lives. Her fights for Truth and Justice have been rather unconventional...
★★★★☆ People’s lives were changing at an accelerated pace in the 19th Century. How would new technologies and scientific discoveries mold this brave new world? Authors reflected on this disturbance in the force as...
★★★★☆ Maben and her daughter Annalee walk along a lonely highway, a black garbage bag of clothes their only possession. Three days of “walking to nowhere with nothing” have rendered them dead tired, nearly...
★★★☆☆ Bestselling author Sophie Hannah attempts to capture Agatha Christie’s masterful storytelling in Closed Casket, but Christie was an author who cannot be replicated. Closed Casket takes place at Lady Athelinda Playford’s estate in Clonakilty, County...
★★★★☆ Mary Higgins Clark has been writing thrilling mysteries for decades. The Sleeping Beauty Killer, the fourth book about TV producer Laurie Moran, is her third collaboration with Alafair Burke. The Sleeping Beauty Killer finds...
★★★★★ The era of the Penny Dreadful in European literary history is one of vicious source material: many blood-curdling pamphlets of “true” crime were adulterated from the headlines, influenced by grizzly stories of psychopaths...
★★★★☆ In A Banquet of Consequences, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, of Scotland Yard, is at somewhat of a loss. Her best friend and his daughter have moved away from London to Pakistan. At work,...
