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David McK (3227 KP) rated The Maltese Falcon in Books

Jan 28, 2019

Another classic detective novel, this time with the mystery on two (at least) tiers: the central concept of the whole story (The Maltese Falcon), and just how the morally ambiguous Sam Spade is going to react in any given situation!

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The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser Series #1)

Robert B. Parker

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The first detective novel featuring Boston PI Spenser, in Robert B. Parker's acclaimed and...

Dark Crimes (2018)

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A hard-boiled detective becomes suspicious of an author when the incidents described in his hit...

Erika (17788 KP) rated The Department of Sensitive Crimes (Detective Varg #1) in Books

Jul 21, 2019

This is the first novel in the Detective Varg series by McCall Smith. It's lighthearted (as much as a mystery novel can be), and the polar-opposite of nordic noir. The novel is written as a series of short stories, and it was a very quick read. Half of me thinks that this was written purely as a satire of nordic noir, without grisly deaths and violence against women.
I received this book from the Penguin First to Read program (RIP).

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Dirk Gently's Big Holistic Graphic Novel

Tony Akins, Ilias Kyriazis, Chris Ryall and Arvind Ethan David

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Douglas Adams' holistic detective Dirk Gently has his comic book adventures collected here in DIRK...

Christine A. (965 KP) rated Never Tell (Detective D.D. Warren #10) in Books

Mar 28, 2019

Includes Detective D.D. Warren, Flora Dane, and FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy (1 more)

Can stand alone

A stand-alone, multi POV novel and the 10th novel in the Detective D.D. Warren series.

I was provided with a complimentary copy of this book so I could give an honest review.

I was not my parents' favorite child. I was not even the favorite daughter. Let me say my family has a strange sense of humor so my dad bought me Lisa Gardner's novel "The Other Daughter". I laughed and let the book sit for a few years. When I eventually read it, I knew I found an author I would definitely read again.

Never Tell by Lisa Gardner can stand alone. The multi POV thriller is the 10th novel in her Detective D.D. Warren series. It includes Flora Dane who was first introduced in Find Her, the 8th novel in her Detective D.D. Warren series.

In Find Her, Dane was kidnapped while on spring break and held for 472 days. Since then, she in now working as Warren's unpaid Confidential Informant). The agent who was instrumental in rescuing Dane was FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy, daughter of FBI Profiler Pierce Quincy, a main character in Gardner's FBI Profiler series. Kimberly Quincy also returns to assist with Warren's case.

It might be difficult to understand the connections I mentioned if you have not read prior books. The book does stand alone and will make you want to go read the others.

Review published on Philomathinphila.com on 3/27/19.