Author Review: Robert Van Gulik
True to its mantra, the SMSA Library holds a number of out-of-print works by mystery and crime authors including Robert Van Gulik
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The Elm Creek Quilts Series by Jennifer Chiaverini
The Elm Creek Quilts Series by Jennifer Chiaverini is a series of mystery novels, using American quilting lore as the basis for their stories.
Author Review: Nathan Lowell
Author Review: Nathan Lowell – the series deals with a man becoming the owner of a spaceship carrying passengers and cargo and their adventures to…
Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
Diana Gabaldon has had a huge following for years with her Outlander series, the first novel of which, Cross Stitch, was released in 1991.
Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent
This book is set in Oxford (tick); the characters work for the Clarendon English Dictionary which is a thinly disguised Oxford English Dictionary (tick) and…
The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9) by Elly Griffiths
The Chalk Pit is the ninth book in the Dr Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths, and it ticks all the boxes!
The Four Legendary Kingdoms by Matthew Reilly
The Four Legendary Kingdoms by Matthew Reilly is the latest novel in the Jack West series, where our hero finds himself kidnapped and forced to…
The Last Remains (Dr Ruth Galloway #15) by Elly Griffiths
I strongly recommend reading the rest of the series before reading this instalment. I approached this book with some trepidation as I knew it was…
Bad Seed by Alan Carter
Bad Seed by Alan Carter tells of Cato Kwong forced to recall a personal history that makes his investigation doubly painful when Francis Tan and…
Author Review: Qiu Xiaolong
Author Review on crime & mystery novelist and academic writer, Qiu Xiaolong, and his extensive body of work.
From a Far and Lovely Country (No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #24) by Alexander McCall Smith
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…
The Last Order by Steve Berry
The Lost Order is the latest novel in Steve Berry’s action-packed, thrilling Cotton Malone a covert spy series.