Our youth-oriented society also applies to mystery fiction in which the average age of most detectives barely reaches 40. In this debut novel a retired FBI agent, newly and happily married, is pulled reluctantly back into a case she couldn’t solve years ago.
Schlagwort-Archive: The Seattle Times
Rezension: Kate Atkinson: “Life After Life”
Kate Atkinson’s new novel tells the story — excuse me, stories — of Ursula, a strange, sturdy and very brave young girl born into an English family in 1910. Ursula dies in the second chapter, at the moment of her birth, and then is reborn, again and again and again.
Rezension: Jacqueline Winspear: “Leaving Everything Most Loved”
In the latest Maisie Dobbs novel, “Leaving Everything Most Loved,” the British psychologist/detective investigates the death of a young Indian woman. Author Jacqueline Winspear appears twice locally in April.
Rezensionen: Camilleri, Wilson, Bannister, Thomas, & Lovejoy
Adam Woog on Andrea Camilleri’s “The Dance of the Seagull”, Robert Wilson’s “Capital Punishment”, Jo Bannister’s “Deadly Virtues”, “Death on a Pale Horse” by Donald Thomas, and Bess Lovejoy’s nonfiction work “Rest in Pieces”.
Rezension: Cara Black: “Murder Below Montparnasse”
San Francisco writer Cara Black has her fashionable detective investigating high-stakes art theft in Paris’ famous Montparnasse neighborhood in her latest Aimée Leduc mystery, “Murder Below Montparnasse.”
Rezension: Christopher Sandford: »Masters of Mystery«
Christopher Sandford’s »Masters of Mystery« explores the oddball friendship that formed between two very different kinds of geniuses: the magician Harry Houdini and Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle.