The Last Murder at the End of the World is author Stuart Turton’s latest novel. Set on a remote island at the end of the world, it concerns a group of villagers and their elders. The villagers are peaceful and content to serve the island (where they have gathered to escape a mysterious deadly fog that is enveloping the world), and to obey the three elders who run the island.
Red Beans and Rituals is book two in The Witches of the French Quarter mystery series by Jen Pitts. While readers can easily devour this delicious mystery on its own, book one (Mardi Gras and Magic) is equally delightful and reveals some excellent back story.
She Left is a locked room mystery, with a limited number of characters that the reader gets to know intimately. In a special nod to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, the characters are invited to a remote location by a well-known journalist who wants to interview each of them about a mass murder that happened 20 years ago. Upon arrival, they don’t find a journalist, they find the crazed mother of the young man that confessed to the crime of setting off a bomb then knifing survivors.
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On a book-related topic, I am a part of a lot of book Facebook groups and one question that consistently comes up is what to do about bad smelling books. Most of the time it’s a book that belonged to their nine-pack-of-cigarettes-a-day grandmother and they just can’t bear to part with it.
Dubai. New York City. Lexington, Kentucky. The Tallest Building in the World. Luxurious suites in five-star hotels. The Kentucky Derby. Lurking gangsters. Perfidious terrorists. Kidnappings. Bombs. Murder. A secret weapon. A helpful cat. And—believe it or not—Klingons.
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Valerie and her wife Kristen are in Hawaii as a way for Valerie to begin to recover from the death of her brother, Charlie, in a fiery car wreck. Kristen visited years before she met Valerie and made friends with Isaac. Now the couple are Isaac’s houseguests.
The Band begins with a breezy narration full of footnotes covering the rise – and fall? – of a female Korean pop band attempting to forge their success in the States. They hope that connecting with another Korean idol who has found popularity in America will give them a boost up, but ominous hints would indicate that it’s about to go wrong.
Emily Kelton is a probationary reporter for the Standard, a scrappy, Boston daily newspaper. The job is a step up from the suburban weekly she’d spent two years writing for, but her success there gave her a strong dose of confidence: she knows how to report. She’s a lone wolf, with ambition to move out of the cop beat to the City Hall bureau, which her friend Roz covers, and then to larger political entities. Just prove it to Saul, her editor, she thinks.
I’m no stranger to Colleen Cambridge’s enchanting storytelling, but this is my first time meeting her sleuth, Tabitha Knight. It can be a gamble picking up book two in a series without reading the first, but I am happy to report that the kindhearted, yet fierce Tabitha dazzled me right from page one, and by page two, she felt like an old friend. The warm, inviting way in which Cambridge writes her characters (and the settings they inhabit) has a mesmerizing effect on the reader.
