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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated Girl in Disguise in Books
Oct 5, 2020
In Macallister's second novel, she takes on telling the story of Kate Warne, America's (and maybe the world's) first female detective, who walked into the Pinkerton's Detective Agency in 1856 and insisted Pinkerton take her on as an agent. Find out what I thought of this historical fiction novel in my review here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2017/03/03/becoming-the-first/
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Kristy H (1252 KP) rated Sweetheart (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #2) in Books
Feb 1, 2018
Addictive sequel to Cain's "Heartsick" -- featuring serial killer Gretchen Lowell, detective Archie Sheridan, and reporter Susan Ward. Picks up shortly after the end of the first novel, with the intersection of a story Ward is pursuing and the ongoing twisted relationship of Archie and Gretchen. As with the first novel, hard to put down...
Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated Knots And Crosses in Books
Nov 9, 2017 (Updated Nov 9, 2017)
Detective Rebus is totally clueless
From the outset it was completely obvious who was responsible for the murders and abductions and yet it took the entire novel for the detective to figure it out. I became rather frustrated with the character's various flaws which stopped him from solving the murder. I was told Ian Rankin has a good reputation for writing thrillers so slightly disappointed overall.
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David McK (3921 KP) rated The Maltese Falcon in Books
Jan 28, 2019
The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser Series #1)
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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 (17789 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).
I received this book from the Penguin First to Read program (RIP).
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...