1+ week, 2+ day ago   (571+ words) Translated by Ian Giles — Are you ready for a cold case mystery from Sweden? Professor Hans Rekke and police officer Micaela Vargas team up once again in Post Mortem, the third in Lagercrantz’s series featuring the unlikely duo, following Fatal…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (335+ words) The Vanishing Room, the sophomore outing for the pair, follows close behind, with Blackwood being honoured for her role in solving the case and Lennox haunted by events, compounding his ongoing cognitive issues. The central mystery involves a missing eight-year-old....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (873+ words) All is not well at the Horatio Combe Institute in Priory Square, Camden, London. And it’s not just the mokomokai who are looking peaky. Owner/operator Digby Coombe-Watson – descendent of notorious colonial pilferer Horatio Coombe – has been murdered. And on…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (162+ words) The early chapters fell flat with me, the characters seemed rather generic and uninspired, and I did wonder how much I would enjoy the book. However, once it became apparent that what connected these people was that they had all…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (116+ words) But they have one last book in its final stages, so have to put on a brave face for their loyal readers. It’s hard. Reminders of their first success are everywhere at the event, and the conference planner has even…...