The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Detective Stories by Michael Sims

On December 25, 2011, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

Gathering the finest adventures among private and police detectives from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-including a wide range of overlooked gems-Michael Sims showcases the writers who ever since have inspired the field of detective fiction.

Acceptable Loss: A William Monk Novel by Anne Perry

On August 9, 2011, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

To a superlative degree, Acceptable Loss provides colorful characters, a memorable portrait of waterfront life, and a story that achieves its most thrilling moments in a transfixed London courtroom, where Monk faces his old friend Oliver Rathbone in a trial of nearly unbearable tension—in sum, every delectable drop of the rich pleasure that readers expect from an Anne Perry novel.

The Sherlockian – A Murder Mystery by Graham Moore

On December 13, 2010, in Book Reviews, by Editor

The Sherlockian begins with Arthur Conan Doyle pondering the best way to kill off the character that brought him fame, fortune, and the angst of a writer desperate to be remembered for more than “a few morbid yarns.” We then skip more than a hundred years into the future, to meet Harold White, a Sherlock Holmes devotee attending an annual celebration of hundreds of Sherlockian societies.