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One Night Gone by Tara Laskowski

By Vicki Weisfeld

11 November, 2020

In Tara Laskowski’s award-winning suspense novel One Night Gone, two women who have never met and never will meet, women of different ages with seemingly nothing in common, have unexpected and consequential connections after all. At the end of the summer of 1986, a teenager…

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The Wicked Sister

By Vicki Weisfeld

26 October, 2020

In this all-new psychological thriller, Karen Dionne again sets her drama in the sparsely populated, heavily wooded Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and again the natural world plays an important role, underlining themes and supporting the action. The main character, 26-year-old Rachel, even talks to animals….

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Murder on the Iditarod Trail by Sue Henry

By Vicki Weisfeld

22 October, 2020

Forecasts in the States are for a snowy winter, and if you want to gear up for the cold, you couldn’t do better than reading Sue Henry’s first Alaska mystery. Whatever the weather throws at the rest of us, compared to people who race the…

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The Mathematical Murder of Innocence by Michael Carter

By Vicki Weisfeld

13 October, 2020

Here’s a courtroom drama that perfectly illustrates how there’s a crime thriller exactly suited to every taste, no matter how specific – even one tailor-made for a statistician accustomed to dealing with the intricacies of prediction. In some ways, you’d think that calculating odds (except,…

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Justice Gone by N Lombardi, Jr

By Vicki Weisfeld

1 October, 2020

This crime thriller by N Lombardi is truly a mixed bag. The story is strong and might have been written this morning, its themes are so timely. However, the presentation gets in the way. Before I get to the plusses, here are the minuses. I…

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The Innocent Dead by Lin Anderson

By Vicki Weisfeld

23 September, 2020

The Innocent Dead is 15th in Scottish author Lin Anderson’s long-running series of police procedurals featuring forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod and the Glaswegian team she works with. Echoes of several of those earlier books appear rather frequently in the pages of this new one, although…

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Brothers Keepers by Donald E Westlake revisited

By Vicki Weisfeld

22 September, 2020

Donald E Westlake’s books first appeared on my shelves in the 1970s, sort of mid-way in his 60-year publishing career. Westlake was the award-winning author of more than a hundred books – not all of them novels. He specialised in crime fiction and, especially, novels…

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Mortmain Hall by Martin Edwards

By Vicki Weisfeld

23 August, 2020

Right from the title, you know the stately Yorkshire family home Mortmain Hall will play a pivotal role in this classic mystery. The legal doctrine of mortmain, after all, refers to owners’ attempts to control the fate of their property after their death. As you…

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One Night Gone by Tara Laskowski

The Wicked Sister

Murder on the Iditarod Trail by Sue Henry

The Mathematical Murder of Innocence by Michael Carter

Justice Gone by N Lombardi, Jr

The Innocent Dead by Lin Anderson

Brothers Keepers by Donald E Westlake revisited

Mortmain Hall by Martin Edwards

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