Grandville Bete Noire
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The Badger is back! At Toad Hall, lair of multibillionaire. Baron Aristotle Krapaud, a cabal of...
Death Comes to Call (A Tara Thorpe Mystery Book 3)
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Tara Thorpe may be Cambridge Police’s youngest detective, but that doesn’t stop her from...
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Just Cause (Detective Madison Knight Series Book 5)
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One cold case could be what kills her… Eight years ago, a young defense attorney was murdered,...
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Ties That Bind ( Detective Madison Knight Series Book 1)
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Three victims. One method. One motive. When dead bodies start piling up, Detective Madison...
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The Art of Death
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London's latest art installation is a real killer . . . An underground artist leaves three glass...
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Clare Parrott (294 KP) rated Stone Cold in Books
Mar 11, 2018
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Minority Report (2002) in Movies
Apr 8, 2020
The plot: Based on a story by famed science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, "Minority Report" is an action-detective thriller set in Washington D.C. in 2054, where police utilize a psychic technology to arrest and convict murderers before they commit their crime. Tom Cruise plays the head of this Precrime unit and is himself accused of the future murder of a man he hasn't even met.
A excellent movie.
Spotted Hemlock
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Rediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha...
Mysteries and Conspiracies: Detective Stories, Spy Novels and the Making of Modern Societies
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The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies,...
Phil Leader (619 KP) rated A Kill for the Poet (Chaser on the Rocks #2) in Books
Nov 18, 2019
Yet that is what happens when a mysterious surveillance job turns into something far more sinister and despite himself Caskey can't help but try to unravel the mystery. Like picking at a scab this is something he feels compelled to do but it's really only going to make things worse. The main story is woven through with Caskey composing his latest novel featuring his 1940s detective Billy Chapman investigating a murder.
Despite the complexities Maltman creates for himself in both his main character and the book within a book, both plots work well together. The Billy Chapman sections serve to break up the main story, like sorbet between a twelve course meal. Caskey, despite his problems, is an engaging character and very believable even when the plot he gets caught up in veers towards being wilfully obscure. There is an obvious comparison to Bateman's Mystery Man, another Nothern Irish detective with mental issues. But where Mystery Man is often a tragic and self-defeating character, Caskey is nothing like that and embraces his flaws.
Above all this stands up as a good solid detective story (indeed two of them). Maltman has a flair for producing interesting and very readable books and this is no exception