2023 Year In Review: SMSA’s Top 10 Mysteries
Mystery & Crime lovers abound at SMSA, so we have highlighted the top books from that genre this year. Which have you read? We hope…
Mystery & Crime lovers abound at SMSA, so we have highlighted the top books from that genre this year. Which have you read? We hope…
Discover the year’s best books and award winners for 2021, focusing on the major literary and crime writing awards.
A gem of Australian crime fiction, this novel is the first in a series by Australian author Ms. Gentill. Set in Sydney 1931, we are…
It isn’t unusual for a well-known author to write for the Young Adult audience (i.e., Garry Disher, Robert Galbraith) so for that reason I read…
An immensely readable trilogy, to be found in the Science Fiction part of the Library, the books are in order A Discovery of Witches, Shadow…
McCall Smith has written another delightful instalment in this wonderful series. As always, it is full of gentle humour and sage advice. The ‘mysteries’ are…
Not a word is wasted in this lyrical meditation on one woman’s life choices. After attending a number of retreats at a Catholic nuns convent,…
This is a series of essays, many previously published in magazines and newspapers, but brought together in this one volume. As each essay is complete…
Well, this is a book that has polarised the reading world! And it’s not the actual plot that has caused all the hoo-ha-ha, but the…
Another cracker in this series by Louise Penny, set in the mysterious Quebec village of Three Pines: it may not be on any map, but…
One of the first words that comes to mind when I read this series is ‘compassion’. Richard Osman shows enormous compassion towards his characters, and…
A cross between Ocean’s 8 and Downton Abbey, this historical heist novel kept this reader thoroughly captivated from the first paragraph to the final sentence….