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The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond

Michael Sims

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From Mahatma Gandhi and John F. Kennedy to Martin Luther King and Leo Tolstoy, the works of Henry...

Earl and His Butler in Constantinople: The Secret Diary of an English Servant Among the Ottomans

Nigel R. Webb and Caroline Webb

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George Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull, was an unconventional ambassador. A Scottish aristocrat who had...

I Walked with Giants: The Autobiography of Jimmy Heath

Jimmy Heath, Joseph McLaren and Bill Cosby

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Composer of more than 100 jazz pieces, three-time Grammy nominee, and performer on more than 125...

White King: Charles I - Traitor, Murderer, Martyr

Leanda de Lisle

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Less than forty years after the golden age of Elizabeth I, England was at war with itself. The...

Dining with the Victorians: A Delicious History

Emma Kay

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From traditional seaside holiday treats like candy floss, ice cream and fish 'n' chips, to the...

Women in New Religions

Laura L. Vance

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Women in New Religions offers an engaging look at women's evolving place in the birth and...

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2452 KP) rated Murder on Amsterdam Avenue in Books

Jul 7, 2021 (Updated Jul 7, 2021)

Poisoner on the Lose

Frank Malloy has moved into the house that he and Sarah Brandt will share after they get married, but they have to wait until restoration is done on the house to actually get married, and the workers are taking their sweet time about it. Meanwhile, Sarah accompanies her mother on a condolence call to the home of the Oakes family. Charles suddenly got sick and died a few days later. The Oakes have been friends with Sarah’s family for years, and so, on the visit, Charles’s father asks if Frank will investigate the death. He thinks that something is not right about it. It isn’t long before Frank confirms that Charles was poisoned. But who would poison him?

While these are historical mysteries, history doesn’t always come into play in these books. Here it does in a couple of different ways, and I enjoyed both of them. Fans of the series will be delighted with how the character’s lives are progressing. The mystery was a little slower than most, or maybe it just felt like it to me because I guessed some parts of the plot early on. Even so, I enjoyed some of the twists along the way to the satisfying climax. We get plenty of the supporting characters here, and I am enjoying how they are developing. The characters’ lives are transitioning still in this book, and long-time fans will be happy with how that progresses. This isn’t the strongest in the series, but it will still please fans.