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A Little Murder

Suzette A. Hill

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London, early 1950s. Marcia Beasley of St John's Wood is discovered dead in her home, naked and...

A Man Lay Dead / Enter a Murderer / the Nursing Home Murder

Ngaio Marsh

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Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the first volume in a set of omnibus...

The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler and Ian Rankin

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The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler's most famous and popular novel of all Los Angeles PI Philip...

Donna C (199 KP) rated The Art of Death in Books

Jan 18, 2021

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I knew I was going to like this book from the First Impression. I read quite a few crime novels and some can be quite "samey" but this was a bit different. The concept of murder victims displayed as artworks by the killer was an interesting twist on the genre. Also unnerving was the way he chose his victims by stalking them on social media and dating sites. It makes you think about what you put online.

Several characters could have been the killer. You decide who it is and then some small action or comment makes you think "Hang on, they just did........ maybe it's actually them?"

The two main police officers were well written, and I would like to see them again in another book. I really wanted to know Detective Inspector Grace Archer's back story from when she was a child and you do get to find out, but perhaps this will be explored further in future?

(A bit of a niggle is the number of typos in the text, at least 10-15!)

Overall, easy to get into, keeps your interest and I'd definitely read more by this author.

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Charlotte_14 (68 KP) rated ICED MALICE Detective Kendall Halsrud #2 in Books

Sep 26, 2019

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Iced Malice Marla Madison

When I started reading this book I wasn’t aware that it was part of a series, but it became apparent that I was missing a lot of back story to fully understand the content of parts of the story, especially between Ryan and Brynn, and Kendell and Nash.
I would recommend that others do start this series with the first Detective Kendall Halsrud novel “Relative Malice” I imagine this will set the scene for Iced Malice as this is book 2 out of 4.
Even with having to work with missing plot keys I found Iced Malice to be an enjoyable crime mystery. I found it easy to get sucked into the mystery of the stories as they are more than one case happening during the course of the story. I’m not sure if it’s with me not starting with book 1 but I seemed to keep getting lost and in a permanent position of confusion.
I may have to come back to this again after I find the 1st book. It will not be for a while as I have a pile of books that I need to get through before any rereading takes place. So at present I feel I can only give Iced Malice 5/10