A True Story of Morgues, Murderers, and Mysteries During the London Blitz Knowing how much stories like this interest me, I was surprises I’d only learned of Molly Lefebure from a PBS show. In it, a spunky young reporter teams up with a forensic pathologist to solve crimes in war-torn London. And I was even…
REVIEW: THE GREEK COFFIN MYSTERY by Ellery Queen
As a nerdy child who read just about any mystery she could get her hands on, I often picked up musty copies of the Ellery Queen Magazine with stories by dozens of contributing writers at yard sales. And in recent years I’ve watched some episodes of the show starring Jim Hutton. But somehow, I…
ACCENT: THE DEAD IN THEIR VAULTED ARCHES by Alan Bradley
This is the sixth in the Flavia de Luce series — but the first one I have read. No doubt there are aspects of the novel that I didn’t appreciate since I was familiar with the stock characters. In this episode, Flavia’s mother Harriet (who has been missing since she was a baby) is coming…
REVIEW: THE HOUSE ON THE CLIFF by Charlotte Williams
The narrator is one Jessica Mayhew, a successful psychotherapist. She becomes interested in one of her patients who has recently remembered a childhood memory. He believes he saw his father kill his au pair, throwing her off a boat near the Welch coast. This vague memory has haunted his dreams for a couple of…
ACCENT: THE LUMINARIES by Eleanor Catton
This is a massive book — it clocks in at just under 900 pages — but you won’t notice it. It is so absorbing from the outset that you won’t realize you just devoured another 75 pages. On your lunch break. The story is deceptively simple. On the gold coast of New Zealand, a…