Books that include a murder mystery investigation.
As we discovered in The Thursday Murder Club, Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron live in a retirement village and meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. Having successfully solved the brutal killing that took place their doorstep, you would expect them to take a well deserved rest. However, fate has other plans……… The… More The Man Who Died Twice
A letter from Richard Coles from Bookshop.org When I moved from central London to my parish in rural Northamptonshire, a friend asked if I wouldn’t miss the challenges of ministering in the inner city, and quickly tire of fêtes and beetle drives and dog shows. There was a murder in my first week. Anything can happen anywhere, an… More Murder Before Evensong
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We were surprised to discover that Adam Woodyatt was playing Tom Bryce, not DS Roy Grace, in this play. Tom Bryce is the hapless victim who puts his family in danger having found a USB memory stick that links to a subscription snuff movie site. Having seen a murder, the family are in danger….… More Looking Good Dead
The Sentence is Death is the second in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series of murder mysteries.
Having been struck down with Covid again, there was little I could do except sleep and read. So I turned to the next instalment of PI Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick. … More The Sentence is Death
Liar Liar by James Patterson and Candice Fox is the third novel in the Detective Harriet Blue series. This book was sitting on my pile of books to read, when my husband started it. Normally I fly through James Patterson books, although I struggled to read 18th Abduction , so I thought he’d get through it quickly and hand… More Liar Liar
t a murder mystery. You know from the beginning who killed Gabriel. What you don’t know is why…….and as the murderess remains silent, no-one else knows why either.… More The Silent Patient
Having a clear out we came upon these murder mystery books by S T Haymon. All are available from Amazon. Death And The Pregnant Virgin was originally published in 1980. It was the first crime thriller to feature Detective Inspector Benjamin Jurnet. The action starts in a small village in Norfolk. Nearby an ancient statue has… More S T Haymon books
Murder in the Dark by Kerry Greenwood is Book 16 in the Phryne Fisher series. I came across it the other day while browsing for a new book and was drawn to the title. It wasn’t until I got it home I realised it was part of the Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries that are being shown on… More Murder in the Dark
Described as “A classic that needs to be read” I ordered a copy of The Poisoned Chocolates Case. This murder mystery was originally published in 1929 and admired by such people as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers. The book is famed for offering multiple solutions. Written by Anthony Berkeley, (a pen name of Anthony… More The Poisoned Chocolates Case