by Michelle | Apr 30, 2010 | Mystery, Paranormal
Fans of Alt’s Bewitching Mystery series will no doubt tell you that, despite the transparent mystery, this sixth installment is well worth reading for its relationship-centric plot. What that means? More Marcus! And that’s always a good thing. So, this...
by Michelle | Apr 26, 2010 | Horror, Local Connection, Mystery
If you like books that take place close to home, we’ll give you a heads-up on titles you may want to check out with Read This’ new Local Connection feature. This time we’ve found one for all of you horror/police procedural fans: Alexandra...
by ta | Apr 21, 2010 | Fiction, Mystery, Staff Picks
In the summer of 1921, English society is fascinated by the spiritual world – perhaps no one more than the great mystery writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, one of thirteen eager guests at a weekend party and seance in a stately Devon manor house steeped in history...
by ta | Apr 11, 2010 | Fiction, Mystery
The staff here at the Peabody Institute Library had the pleasure of hearing author and Boston Globe mystery reviewer, Hallie Ephron, hold forth on the mystery genre last week. She talked about the origin of mysteries and major authors in some of the many subgenres....
by Michelle | Nov 28, 2009 | Mystery
In the eighth installment of the Coffeehouse Mystery series, Clare Cosi, manager of the Village Blend in Greenwich, NY, has her hands full trying to get her team of baristas to join in on the holiday spirit. When Clare finds Alfred Glockner, a traveling Santa and...
by ta | Sep 28, 2009 | Fiction, Mystery
Originally from Palestine, Nayir is something of an outsider in Saudi Arabia. As a desert guide, he has become familiar with the bedouin customs, but the bedouins do not welcome him into their social circles and the Saudi’s think he is too much like a bedouin to...
