Peter Temple's The Broken Shore (2005) Random House, 2008 Sometime in early May I picked up a copy of Peter Temple's Truth at the library; it was on my hold shelf with a few other books. <cough> (It doesn't really matter for the purposes of this story that you know
Maureen Jennings' Except the Dying St. Martin's Press, 1997 M&S, 2004 Remember when I said that I'd be reading mysteries and classics this summer? Well, I'm doing a great job of reading those mysteries. The classics are definitely taking a backseat. It's been hot; we've been busy (bike-riding, playing games, learning
Cara Black's Murder in Belleville Soho Press,2000 If I'd had any doubts about whether Cara Black's mystery series would be a good choice with which to celebrate Paris in July, the blurbs on the second Aimée Leduc mystery would have cinched the deal. Val McDermid writes: "If you've always wanted
Agatha Christie's Murder on the Links (1923) Harper, 2001 If you've been following along, you'll know that I have a fancy-schmancy spreadsheet listing Agatha Christie novels with only a single tick-mark in it. After years of thinking about it, I finally read my first Agatha Christie mystery earlier this year,
Antony Trollope's The Warden (1855) Random House, 2003 When a reading friend first got bitten by the Trollope bug a few years back, I rushed out to buy a copy of this novel, the first in his Barsetshire series; of course I intended to read it immediately, but you know
