Who doesn’t love reading a locked room mystery? It’s fascinating how each author in this collection thought of a unique and intriguing impossible murder scenario. And then quickly unveiled their witty solution. Surely, one or more of the fourteen tales within the Golden Age Locked Room Mysteries will tickle yourContinue Reading
I have been reading a lot of mysteries lately where the characters and even the setting were prioritized above the mystery itself. Having read other locked room mysteries by this author, I was looking forward to the challenge. And the Plague Court Murders did not disappoint! “Cats with their throatsContinue Reading
Join me in the welcoming The Corpse with the Crystal Skull to my blog as part of the Great Escapes Virtual Book Tour. This book is the ninth entry in the Cait Morgan Cozy Mystery Series and will be published on June 29, 2020. And who doesn’t love aContinue Reading
“It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key.” said Winston Churchill. In The Guest List, the key is that no one is what they seem and all have major secrets to protect. Posh Jules is marrying the handsome television star WillContinue Reading
What could have happened? Six college students go into England’s longest tunnel canal. Only one comes out in the new puzzler, Now You See Me. The five bodies are never found. Despite the lack of evidence, Matthew is accused of murder and sent to jail to await his trial. MatthewContinue Reading
Guess Who is a mash-up of Saw and The Game, where nothing is what it appears. Sheppard, a famous true crime television detective, wakes up handcuffed to the bed in a hotel room. He remembers nothing of how he arrived there. With him are five strangers: Mandy, Alan, Ryan, ConstanceContinue Reading
Rett and Bryn continually awaken in the apocalyptic future in the Echo Room. Step 1: Rett wakes up in a locked metal room with no memory of how he got there. He has blood on his clothes and hands. Soon he sees Bryn, who is also locked in the roomContinue Reading
A Gentleman’s Murder just made me a believer in reincarnation. In this case of Agatha Christie in this perfectly imagined locked room mystery set in 1924. Eric Peterkin is a member of the prestigious Britannia Club, open to male war veterans only. When a wager ends in murder, Eric, anContinue Reading
Who doesn’t love a locked room mystery? Only six people were in the locked meditation room: Aslan, owner of The Plantation Spa and murder victim Julia, part-time secretary and confessed killer Saskia, vacationing secretary Paul, vacationing pharmacist Ann, Paul’s wife Ben, rich vacationer Detective Inspector Poole investigates but doubts Julia’sContinue Reading