Page-turners: sometimes mysterious

2017-07-24T15:36:17-04:00

Nothing like a good mystery. Some serial fun, with Giles Blunt, Ian Hamilton, Louise Penny, or my most recent discovery, the Nina Borg series by Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis. But one can find a good page-turner in the standalone novels on the fiction shelves too. Take Claire Cameron's freshly published The Bear, longlisted

Page-turners: sometimes mysterious2017-07-24T15:36:17-04:00

Mary Lawson’s Road Ends (2013)

2014-06-26T14:46:10-04:00

You might think Struan is an unlikely setting for a novel. A town you can walk through in under ten minutes (even on slippery wintry surfaces). Knopf Canada, 2013 "Walking from one end of Struan to the other takes less than ten minutes. If you kept walking south

Mary Lawson’s Road Ends (2013)2014-06-26T14:46:10-04:00

Giles Blunt’s By the Time You Read This (2006)

2014-03-09T19:30:11-04:00

Giles Blunt’s By the Time You Read This Random House, 2006 John Cardinal and Lise Delorme #4 Although I read the third book in the Algonquin Bay series decidedly out of Blackfly Season, I chose the perfect time of year to read the fourth. The beautifully hued leaf on the cover gives

Giles Blunt’s By the Time You Read This (2006)2014-03-09T19:30:11-04:00

Giles Blunt’s mysteries

2014-03-09T18:41:20-04:00

Giles Blunt's Blackfly Season (2005) Seal Books, 2006 It would have been far more appropriate to have read this mystery earlier in the season in, say, Blackfly Season. And it would have been far more appropriate to have read it in closer proximity to the first two books in this

Giles Blunt’s mysteries2014-03-09T18:41:20-04:00
Go to Top