Books that include a murder mystery investigation.
Malcolm Pryce’s hardboiled detective is back cavorting down the mean streets of Aberystwyth in the second book of the series…….. Dean Morgan, who teaches at the Faculty of Undertaking, comes to Aberystwyth to pick up course materials. Checking into a notorious bed and breakfast ghetto, he mistakenly receives a suitcase intended for a ruthless druid assassin.… More Last Tango in Aberystwyth
Hardboiled detectives aren’t just found on the mean streets of Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles…….They can also be found in the parochial Welsh town of Aberystwyth…….. Well at least that’s where Malcolm Pryce’s hardboiled detective can be found. This Aberystwyth is run by shady Druids. There are whelk-stalls as well as sexy dancing girls. And even an… More Aberystwyth Mon Amour
Taking wedding day stress to a new level “Better Off Wed” is the first book in the Annabelle Archer cozy mystery series by Laura Durham. This book also won the Agatha Award for the Best First Novel. Laura based her wedding planner mysteries on her 20 plus years of planning society weddings in Washington, DC. She… More Annabelle Archer
Aristide Leonides, a wealthy and ruthless tycoon, has been poisoned…. It appears that someone laced his regular insulin injection with eserine from his eye drops……This is the premise for Agatha Christie’s Crooked House. The old mans grandaughter, Sophia, is convinced he has been murdered by a member of their idiosyncratic family. She hires her ex-lover, a spy-turned-private-detective to… More Killed by Eye Drops!
Watching a TV quiz show, I was surprised by a question asking which author was set on fire while playing cricket at Lord’s. I correctly guessed Sir Arthur Conan Doyle but wanted to know more of the story about the man behind Sherlock Holmes. First Class Cricket Sir Arthur Conan Doyle played for MCC until 1907. He finished with… More “Couldn’t get you out — had to set you on fire.”
Widely considered to be one of her greatest works, A Judgement In Stone is a 1977 novel by Ruth Rendell. This is a psychological thriller that concerns the murder of four members of the Coverdale family. George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles all died in the space of fifteen minutes on the 14th February, St Valentine’s Day. They were shot… More A Judgement In Stone
This book is the first in a series following Donna on her missions as the housewife assassin. This is no ordinary cosy murder series. It’s a mixture of American mom and thriller with plot twists and a fair smattering of sex. (You have been warned) via The Housewife Assassin’s Handbook — Invitation To Events
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