Category Archives: Mystery

Date Read: July 21 Author: Jane Harper Genre: Mystery Rating: 5/5 Set in the middle of the Australian outback, where many live over six hours from the nearest town, a family suffers a tragedy and finds that they may not know each other as well as they thought… and their isolation means that there aren’tContinue reading “The Lost Man”

Date Read: June 15 Author: Jane Harper Genre: Mystery Rating: 4/5 Aaron Falk returns to his hometown when his best friend from childhood, Luke, dies, along with his wife and son. Falk never intended on returning, but Luke’s father sends him a note before the funeral that leaves him no other choice. Death rarely changesContinue reading “The Dry”

Date Read: 14 Author: Tana French Genre: Mystery Rating: 5/5 Rather than focusing on the detectives, in The Witch Elm the novel is written and the mystery is presented from the perspective of one of the suspects involved. I always love an unreliable narrator, and this is perhaps one of the best novels with anContinue reading “The Witch Elm”

Date Read: June 13 Author: Tana French Genre: Mystery Rating: 5/5 What starts as an open-and-shut case quickly becomes complicated: who killed Aislinn? Was it her overly-attached new boyfriend, or the mysterious other man her best friend will only hint at? You can knock down a genuine belief, if you load up with enough factsContinue reading “The Trespasser”

Date Read: June 12 Author: Tana French Genre: Mystery Rating: 5/5 The Secret Place takes place in a private Catholic girls’ school where Frank Mackey’s daughter, Holly, is a student. When she shows up with a clue to a murder that happened the year before, it kicks off a full day in which the mysteryContinue reading “The Secret Place”

Date Read: June 11 Author: Tana French Genre: Mystery Rating: 5/5 A psychological thriller, full of mysterious holes in the walls, unreliable witnesses, and twists and turns. Tana French once more pulls off an amazing mystery where it is impossible to guess the ending until it’s too late. Over time, the ghost of things thatContinue reading “Broken Harbor”

Date Read: June 10 Author: Tana French Genre: Mystery Rating: 5/5 I love all of the books by Tana French, and this one isn’t any different! It’s a very well-developed family centered mystery that involves both the past and the present. Some people should never meet. The fallout spreads too wide and gets into theContinue reading “Faithful Place”

Date Read: June 13 Author: Tana French Genre: Mystery Rating: 5/5 The second book in the Dublin Murder Squad series is The Likeness. Cassie Maddox from In the Woods returns when a murder victim is identical to her – even though Cassie has never seen her before. Cassie soon finds herself undercover and possibly inContinue reading “The Likeness”

Date Read: June 10 Author: Tana French Genre: Mystery Rating: 5/5 I first read the Dublin Murder Squad books about a year ago, and I would say that they’re even better the second time through. Tana French has a way of writing eery, unpredictable mysteries that keep you guessing, and on the second read throughContinue reading “In the Woods”

Date Read: May 24 Author: Laurie R. King Genre: Mystery Rating: 3/5 While I generally love any book that involved Sherlock Holmes, I did not realize that this was the sixth book in the series. By the time I was a few pages in it felt as though I had started watching the second seasonContinue reading “Justice Hall”