Category: Detective & crime
Laurels Are Poison — Gladys Mitchell
March 28th, 2012, 1 Comment
Laurels Are Poison Gladys Mitchell 237 pages published in 1942 Whereas my fiction reading mostly centers around science fiction and fantasy, Sandra was always more interested in other genres, especially that of the classical cozy detective story. Her alltime favourite was probably Margery Allingham, but Gladys Mitchell was a strong second. Now while Mitchell was [...]
The City & The City — China Miéville
May 29th, 2011, 2 Comments
The City & The City China Miéville 312 pages published in 2009 Right. China Miéville is one my favourite writers, one of the few (together with Terry Pratchett, Iain M. Banks and Ken MacLeod) I’ll always buy in hardcover. I love the way in which he fuses science fiction and horror and fantasy together into [...]
Killing for England — Iain McDowall
February 20th, 2011, No Comments
Killing for England Iain McDowall 305 pages published in 2005 I picked up this book because I thought it was by a writer I sort of knew, then kept looking when it became clear McDowall wasn’t the writer I was thinking of, because the back cover blurbs compared him favourably to Ian Rankin. That intrigued [...]
Red Army — Ralph Peters
January 29th, 2009, No Comments
Red Army Ralph Peters 402 pages published in 1989 Infinity star general Ralph “Blood ‘N Guts” Peters (as seen on Alicublog) is one of the more loonier cheerleaders for the War on Musl^wTerror. He’s a firm believer in both what Matt Yglesias dubbed the Green Lantern Theory of Geopolitics where America just needs the Will [...]
Black as He’s Painted — Ngaio Marsh
January 24th, 2009, No Comments
Black as He’s Painted Ngaio Marsh 221 pages published in 1974 If my girlfriend hadn’t insisted on me reading a passage of this, I would’ve never have read Black as He’s Painted, or any other Ngaio Marsh novel for that matter. My mum, a big fan of the British cozy detective genre, used to read [...]
