Lucy Strange’s third book combines a spooky ghost story with a clever page-turning mystery. The author sets her shivery tale of spectres and wrongdoings in the English Lake District in 1899.
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As a mystery novel, “Those Opulent Days” is well-plotted, with a tangled web of possible outcomes. But the allure of the book’s guessing-game narrative and its historical context does not ...
The Queen of Crime’s best mystery novels and film adaptations With no explanation of any sort, Agatha finally shows up at a popular hotel in the spa town of Harrogate, safe and well. Her ...
In her third mystery featuring Trinidadian police sergeant Wesley Peterson (after 2000's The Armada Boy), Ellis proves herself once again adept at linking a contemporary British police procedural ...
Pek, who introduced Claudia in her 2022 debut book, “The Verifiers,” has given the mystery genre fresh trappings — a vivid New York City landscape of chatbots and apps that can create chaos ...
As readers we are embedded in the mystery with Batman, not only as he starts to peel away the layers that are in front of him but in how he’s juggling life as Gotham’s vigilante. The drive to ...
Pek, who introduced Claudia in her 2022 debut book, “The Verifiers,” has given the mystery genre fresh trappings — a vivid New York City landscape of chatbots and apps that can create chaos ...