Tag: reading
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Janice Hallett’s The Silent Appeal
With thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC. Janice Hallett’s The Silent Appeal is due out in late August in Canada and the U.S., and in early September in the UK (which is, itself, a bit of a mystery for a new British crime novel: it’s more common for the North American publication…
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The Dying Light: Forthcoming Ann Cleeves
With thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan for this preview. The Dying Light, the new Matthew Venn mystery, will be out in early October in Canada and the U.S. A couple of weeks ago Ann Cleeves, Shetland Noir’s patron, appeared at a fun crime fiction festival that’s on my bucket list. Cleeves was discussing her two…
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Marsha Mildon’s Stalking the Goddess Ship
Marsha Mildon’s second Cal Meredith novel, set on the west coast of Vancouver Island and in Victoria where the fictional P.I. lives and works, is a thoughtfully plotted lesbian crime novel with an exceptional sense of place. Marguerite is an embattled feminist archaeologist in UVic’s fraught (and fictional) department of ancient cultures. Her theories about…
