The Torso in Town
By Simon Brett Summary: Amateur sleuths Jude and Carole take on their third case when a terrible discovery is made in the cellar of a…
Group Reviews
Hollywood Homicide
By Kellye Garrett Summary: Dayna Anderson doesn’t set out to solve a murder. All the semifamous, mega-broke actress wants is to help her parents keep…
The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
By Soji Shimada Summary: An amateur detective investigates a string of gruesome unsolved murders in this classic Japanese locked room mystery Astrologer, fortuneteller, and self-styled…
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
By Agatha Christie Summary: Roger Ackroyd was a man who knew too much. He knew the woman he loved had poisoned her first husband. He…
Faithful Place
By Tana French Summary: Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen-year-old kid with a dream of escaping his family’s cramped flat on Faithful Place…
Talking To The Dead
By Harry Bingham Summary: At first, the murder scene appears sad, but not unusual: a young woman undone by drugs and prostitution, her six-year-old daughter…
A Share in Death
By Deborah Crombie Group Reviews/Comments: I didn’t like how Duncan did/didn’t want a part in the investigation. I did like how he was introduced to…
The Man in the Brown Suit
By Agatha Christie Group Comments/Reviews: Fascinating perception of women and relationships, and looks vs. villainy. I liked the diary aspects of it. I would have…
The Chinese Orange Mystery
By Ellery Queen Summary Mandarin Press is a premier publishing house for foreign literature, but to those at the top of this enterprise, there is…
Magpie Murders
By Anthony Horowitz Summary When editor Susan Ryeland is given the tattered manuscript of Alan Conway’s latest novel, she has little idea it will change…