Speedy Death
Book
Rediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha...
The Sleeping and the Dead
Book
Detective Peter Porteous is called to Cranwell Lake where the body of a teenager has been...
Eleanor Luhar (47 KP) rated The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories in Books
Jun 24, 2019
This book contains four short stories, all crime/detective tales, starting with The Mistltoe Murder. My personal favourite was the final story, The Twelve Clues of Christmas. Every story was great, though, and A Very Commonplace Murder was particularly surprising.
James manages to include a fantastic little hint/twist at the end of the stories, changing your whole perception on what you've just read. This made the crimes so much more interesting and real. They were relatively simple crimes - stabbings, poisoning - but there's always a lot more going on under the surface than you'd expect.
A fantastic little collection, with a foreword by Val McDermid too. 4 stars.
My Sister's Grave
Book
Tracy Crosswhite has spent 20 years questioning the facts surrounding her sister Sarah's...
crime fiction
Strangled (2016)
Movie
Strangled (2016) Based on real-life events, this psycho-thriller is set in the provincial...
Good Girl, Bad Blood
Book
Pip Fitz-Amobi is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime...
Hangman (Special X, #8)
Book
The game begins in Seattle. On Halloween night, a woman opens her door to a trick-or-treater in a...
I Know A Secret (Rizzoli & Isles, #12)
Book
SOMETIMES IT IS SAFER TO BE SEEN BUT NOT HEARD. . . When a young woman is found dead, Detective...
The Death of Downton Tabby
Book
Hettie Bagshot and her sidekick Tilly Jenkins run the No. 2 Feline Detective Agency from the back...

