Tag: mystery
member name: Christine Zibas
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July 04, 2007 04:17 PM EDT --
This murder mystery is as charming as Vienna itself. Like the city's famed waltz, Frank Tallis moves his book, A Death in Vienna, along at the perfect tempo. The year is 1902, and Vienna is at . . .
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December 01, 2009 01:04 AM EST --
Stardust
Joseph Kanon
ISBN: 978-1-4391-5614-8
The best mysteries take their readers into another world, and capture their imaginations with puzzling human behavior. Joseph Kanon is surely one . . .
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May 06, 2009 12:48 AM EDT --
Absolute Friends
John Le Carre
ISBN: 0-316-00064-7
The old spy game is taken up a notch in Le Carre’s Absolute Friends. Here the intrigue and spying are not merely about competing . . .
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August 18, 2009 03:41 PM EDT --
The Dancer Upstairs
Nicholas Shakespeare
Anchor Books ISBN: 978-0-385-72107-2
In The Dancer Upstairs, author Nicholas Shakespeare poses questions both personal and universal in his telling . . .
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September 09, 2008 03:15 PM EDT --
Good People
Marcus Sakey
Dutton
August 14, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-525-95084-4
Marcus Sakey’s third book, Good People comes at the perfect time on the American landscape. With so many . . .
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July 07, 2007 05:11 PM EDT --
The strengths ofThe Last Nightingale by Anthony Flacco are not what you'd expect from a murder mystery based around a serial killer named "The Surgeon." The two greatest advantages this book . . .
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March 25, 2009 03:22 PM EDT --
Armed and Glamorous: A Crime of Fashion Mystery
Ellen Byerrum
Obsidian
ISBN: 978-0-451-22456-9
It’s hard to believe that fashion and murder would make a good mix, but in Armed and Glamorous, . . .
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July 25, 2008 01:27 AM EDT --
The Body in the Gallery: A Faith Fairchild Mystery
Katherine Hall Page
William Morrow
ISBN: 978-0-06-076367-1
Combining food and art in her latest Faith Fairchild mystery, Katherine Hall . . .
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April 09, 2008 02:56 PM EDT --
Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt
Barbara Mertz
ISBN: 978-0-06-125276-1
William Morrow
For anyone who has an interest in Egypt or ever . . .
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January 17, 2009 12:27 AM EST --
The Mystery Writers of America announced the nominees for 2008's Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which celebrate the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction, television, and movies for the year. The winners . . .
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January 20, 2009 11:42 PM EST --
A Dangerous Affair
Caro Peacock
Avon A
ISBN: 978-0-06-144748-8
Following on from her first book, A Foreign Affair, Caro Peacock has written a stunning successor novel. She continues . . .
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September 08, 2008 05:25 PM EDT --
A Most Wanted Man
John Le Carre
Scribner
ISBN: 978-1-4165-0488-8
There is a reason Le Carre is called the master of the spy novel. Even with the changing complexities of the international . . .
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November 09, 2008 03:14 PM EST --
Consequences of Sin
Clare Langley-Hawthorne
Penguin Books
ISBN: 978-0-14-311293-8
In this historical mystery, the heroine is an unlikely Edwardian character: Ursula (“Sully” to her intimate . . .
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October 09, 2007 01:49 AM EDT --
During the past five years, works by Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Edvard Munch, Leonardo da Vinci, Paul Gaugin, and Vincent Van Gogh have all been the targets of art thieves. Even the "Mona Lisa" . . .
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October 29, 2008 12:07 AM EDT --
Dark Summer
Iris Johansen
St. Martin’s Press
ISBN: 978-0-312-36808-1
Iris Johansen is a well known mystery writer, and having read other books of hers (most recently Stalemate ), I was . . .
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November 02, 2008 01:19 PM EST --
ROCK AND ROLL HOMICIDE
RJ McDonnell
ISBN: 978-0-9814914-1-7
Part of what makes any mystery great are the personalities and background history of its characters. In this case, readers are in . . .
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December 15, 2007 03:39 PM EST --
Eight Million Ways to Die
25 th Anniversary Edition (release date: December 26, 2007)
Lawrence Block
ISBN:978-0-06-145796-8
WilliamMorrow, an imprint of HarperCollins . . .
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February 01, 2008 02:25 AM EST --
And they say January is dreary! This past month, I have been hunkering down inside while the snow has been blowing outdoors, entertaining myself with the latest in mysteries and thrillers. I am a part . . .
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