Monthly Archives: January 2011

The Fates Will Find Their Way is a Haunting Novel by Hannah Pittard

Title: The Fates Will Find Their Way Author: Hannah Pittard Release: January 2011 # of Pages: 256 Genre: Contemporary Mystery This is a story about a haunting, but not the kind we normally think of. When sixteen-year-old Nora Lindell goes … Continue reading

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Easy to See Why Tom Franklin’s Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is up for an Edgar

Title: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter Author: Tom Franklin Release Date: October 2010 # of Pages: 288 Genre: Modern Mystery It’s the late 70s in rural Mississippi, a time of turmoil and change. Two boys have formed the most unlikely of … Continue reading

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It’s A Lonely Death for Many in Charles Todd’s Latest Inspector Rutledge Mystery

Title: A Lonely Death Author: Charles Todd Release Date: January 2011 # of Pages: 352 Genre: Historical Mystery It’s the 1920s and the good inspector is investigating a series of murders in a small village that leaves everyone mystified. The … Continue reading

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Castle’s Third Season Episode Shines in He’s Dead, She’s Dead

This is an episode where a lot happens, some of it foreshadowed in previous episodes, so pay attention! Martha’s never seen but always mentioned boyfriend is finally bumped off, and we get pulled into the mysterious murder of a psychic … Continue reading

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First Season’s Boston Strangler Redux Brings Classic Murder to Rizzoli and Isles

A baseball game is brutally interrupted when the strangled body of a young woman is dumped from a nearby overpass onto a baseball field. The fact that the players are cops, in fact that one of them is our favorite … Continue reading

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Castle’s Third Season Opening Episode is A Deadly Affair

Well summer is over and Beckett may be miffed that she hasn’t heard or seen Castle yet, but that doesn’t stop crimes from happening at a deadly pace. The action starts right away as the season opener begins with Castle … Continue reading

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Season Opener of Rizzoli and Isles, See One, Do One Teach One is a Winner

This was a great way to start off what promises to be a fascinating new crime procedural show. Although the idea of two good looking women that team up to fight the bad guys is not all that new, this … Continue reading

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The Return of a Great Les Roberts Series is Led by “Pepper Pike”

Title: Pepper Pike Author: Les Roberts Release Date: June 2005 # of Pages: 232 Genre: Contemporary Mystery The recent decision to bring back into print the overwhelmingly well-written mystery series by Les Roberts is welcomed by many fans of this … Continue reading

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The Sherlockian Tells the Tale

Title: The Sherlockian Author:Graham Moore Release Date: December 2010 # of Pages: 368 Genre:Historical Mystery Although the story may open in 1893 with Sherlock Holmes author Arthur Conan Doyle struggling with murder most fowl while he contemplates his killing off … Continue reading

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Castle Goes to Animal Farm

This has got to be one of the more complicated of the episodes, and also one of the more satisfying. It all begins in Central Park when a couple of bike riders find a dead body. The next morning we … Continue reading

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