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The Case of the Missing Tarts by Christee Curran-Bauer

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...

Balthazar Series 1 by Clelia Constantine and Clothilde Jamin

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...

Posted by on November 15, 2021

Still Life: A Three Pines Mystery by Peter Moss

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...

Posted by on July 16, 2020

Arm of the Law by Harry Harrison

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...

Posted by on May 29, 2020

The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett

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...

Posted by on January 30, 2020

Snapshot by Brandon Sanderson

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...

Posted by on January 7, 2020

The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester

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....

Posted by on July 13, 2018

I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh

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...

Posted by on June 27, 2017

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