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The Locked Room Mysteries
The locked room mystery, also known as the impossible crime or closed-circle mystery, is not really a genre, but a popular type of mystery.
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Christmas Mysteries and New Books
This is a time of year that has always been important to crime fiction.
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Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
Sleeping Murder was the last Miss Marple mystery
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Robert B. Parker’s Jesse Stone
When you think of a troubled police officer character, Robert B. Parker’s Jesse Stone series comes to mind. Recently, I saw an article where the writer was warning against writing about an alcoholic detective. The writer said that the trope was being overused. And one reason that the character is so popular is because of…
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Historical Mystery
Historical mystery is the party mix version of crime fiction genres—it contains a little something for everyone. It can include history, romance, travel, politics, true crime, archeology, and of course, a crime. To be a historical mystery, the author places the story in a historical era from the author’s viewpoint, and the plot involves the…
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Review of What Doesn’t Kill Us by David Housewright
In David Housewright’s latest novel released this year, What Doesn’t Kill Us, Rushmore McKenzie has been shot and lies in a coma.
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PIs and Spies
One of the things that I want to do with this blog is introduce you to mystery novels, authors, and those that love them. There are so many good blogs that are about mysteries. And this week I’ve read two that I want to share.
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Miss Jane Marple: Agatha Christie’s Surprising Senior Citizen
In 1927, Grand Dame Agatha Christie introduced to the world one of the most popular mystery characters, Miss Jane Marple.
