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The Case of the Missing Tarts

Mama Pigeon has just baked her famous jam tarts, adding her own special top-secret ingredient. Before her son and his fellow detectives can enjoy them, the tarts are stolen right Read more...

Posted by on November 6, 2024

Balthazar Series 1

Rapheal Balthazar is a gifted but eccentric forensic pathologist who is constantly smiling and joking and eating, but underneath that is a deep pain stemming from his wife’s murder fifteen Read more...

Posted by on November 15, 2021

Still Life: A Three Pines Mystery

Let me admit from the beginning that I am a dedicated and enthusiastic fan of Louise Penny, Three Pines, all its quirky residents and Armand Gamache. I have the people Read more...

Posted by on July 16, 2020

Arm of the Law

One day in a corrupt, backwater town on Mars, a large crate shows up at the local police station. Inside? An experimental police robot. Initially the cops there use the Read more...

Posted by on May 29, 2020

The Glass Key

Dashiell Hammett is the godfather of hard-boiled detective fiction. A former real-life Pinkerton detective, he wrote Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man over a span of 5 Read more...

Posted by on January 30, 2020

Snapshot

In the near future, the police of New Clipperton have new tool for fighting crime: they can recreate a facsimile of the entire city for a given 24 hour block Read more...

Posted by on January 7, 2020

The Demolished Man

The year is 2301.  Telepaths are common, including within the police department.  Consequently, there hasn’t been a murder perpetrated in over 70 years. Ben Reich aims to change that fact. Read more...

Posted by on July 13, 2018

I Let You Go

As the story progresses and the characters take shape the reader begins to question their earlier assumptions. The true magnitude of Jenna's trauma emerges, and we are joined by the Read more...

Posted by on June 27, 2017

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