This week’s book, See Also Murder, by Larry D. Sweazy, came to me as a pass-along from a friend. For those of you who like to outwit your mystery authors and guess the murderer four chapters before the end, I offer to hand it over to you. But I will want to hear if the denouement denoue-ed for you. The narrator is Marjorie Trumaine, [...]
Take one normal Mormon housewife, busy keeping up with the laundry and the Relief Society president’s meal requests. Throw in a husband who’s a bishop, which means she’s now got people showing up on her doorstep with tear-stained faces, people calling at all hours. That should be enough to kickstart Mette Ivie Harrison’s novel, The Bishop’s Wife. Then people go missing. Or dead people [...]
I’m not sure how Katherine Hayton’s The Three Deaths of Magdalene Lynton ended up on my Kindle. But I gave it a whirl. It’s a workable murder mystery in which we have two detectives, Ngaire and Deb, possibly meant to be the Cagney & Lacey of Christchurch, New Zealand. A man walks in off the street and confesses to a forty-years-past murder. He’s got nothing to [...]
