January 10 - Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter

Two girls are waiting for a bus to Woodstock, and decide to hitch a lift. Later that night, one of them, Sylvia Kaye, is found murdered and apparently sexually assaulted in the car park of the Black Prince pub in Woodstock.

Suspicion falls on various characters. The body is reported found by John Sanders, a young man who, it later transpires, is addicted to porn and sometimes paid Sylvia for sex. He admits to waiting for her on the night of her murder but found her dead. It turns out he interfered with the body but did not murder her.

Inspector Morse discovers the lift was offered in a red car and guesses various bits of information about the owner. This leads him to calculate the chances of finding a red car in North Oxford which meets all the criteria. There is only one, and it belongs to Bernard Crowther of Southdown Road. Crowther admits that although married he was having an affair with another woman. He admits giving a lift to two girls and dropping them in Woodstock while on the way to meet his mistress.

Crowther and his wife kill themselves, each thinking the other one was the murderer. In the end it turns out it was neither of them but the other girl at the bus stop, Sue Widdowson, who was Crowther’s mistress. Crowther had dropped her off and had sex with Sylvia. Insanely jealous, the other girl had crept up behind Sylvia in the car park and banged her on the back of the head.

A sub plot is about Jennifer Coleby who worked with Sylvia in an insurance office. She was having an affair with her boss, Palmer, and shared a flat with Sue. Each helped the other with messages for their affairs, and the police are sent on a merry dance chasing them.

January 10 - Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter.

Two girls are waiting for a bus to Woodstock, and decide to hitch a lift. Later that night, one of them, Sylvia Kaye, is found murdered and apparently sexually assaulted in the car park of the Black Prince pub in Woodstock.

Suspicion falls on various characters. The body is reported found by John Sanders, a young man who, it later transpires, is addicted to porn and sometimes paid Sylvia for sex. He admits to waiting for her on the night of her murder but found her dead. It turns out he interfered with the body but did not murder her.

Inspector Morse discovers the lift was offered in a red car and guesses various bits of information about the owner. This leads him to calculate the chances of finding a red car in North Oxford which meets all the criteria. There is only one, and it belongs to Bernard Crowther of Southdown Road. Crowther admits that although married he was having an affair with another woman. He admits giving a lift to two girls and dropping them in Woodstock while on the way to meet his mistress.

Crowther and his wife kill themselves, each thinking the other one was the murderer. In the end it turns out it was neither of them but the other girl at the bus stop, Sue Widdowson, who was Crowther’s mistress. Crowther had dropped her off and had sex with Sylvia. Insanely jealous, the other girl had crept up behind Sylvia in the car park and banged her on the back of the head.

A sub plot is about Jennifer Coleby who worked with Sylvia in an insurance office. She was having an affair with her boss, Palmer, and shared a flat with Sue. Each helped the other with messages for their affairs, and the police are sent on a merry dance chasing them.

The Daughter of Time Characters

 The Daughter of Time Characters

Alan Grant - The main character, also a Scotland Yard detective who is bedridden from an injury in the line of duty.

Brent Carradine - An American from a well to do family, and a research worker at the British Museum.

Marta Hallard - A friend of Alan Grant and also the one who provides him with a mystery to solve while in the hospital.

The Amazon - Nurse Darroll - A nurse who is homesick at daffodil season.

The Midget - Nurse Ingham - the nickname for another nurse whose stature is deceiving.

Sergeant Williams - a co-worker of Alan Grant

Matron - he hospital's executive leader.

Mrs. Tinkerc- Alan Grant's maid and also someone who seems to choose to appear poor.

Surgeon - Alan Grant's surgeon, who has no other name, thinks Richard III had polio as a child and was a hunchback.

Richard III - Richard Plantagenet takes the British throne when his brother, Edward IV dies. 

Henry VII - Henry Tudor has a very weak claim to the throne and when he takes it after the Battle of Bosworth.

Elizabeth Woodville - Wife of Edward IV, Elizabeth is also the mother of Elizabeth who later becomes Henry Tudor's queen, as well as mother to the two boys who are supposedly murdered in the tower of London. 

Sir Thomas More - A famous British historian whose word has tended to be sacrosanct in England, but whom Alan Grant determines wrote about Richard III more from hearsay than from fact.

John Morton - Bishop of Ely, Archbishop of Canterbury, John Morton is a man of changeable loyalties and a bitter enemy of Richard III.

December 13 - The Daughter of Time

 The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

"One of the best mysteries of all time" (The New York Times)—Josephine Tey recreates one of history’s most famous—and vicious—crimes in her classic bestselling novel, a must read for connoisseurs of fiction, now with a new introduction by Robert Barnard.

Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world’s most heinous villains—a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother’s children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the usurpers of England’s throne? Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard Plantagenet really was and who killed the Little Princes in the Tower.

The Daughter of Time is an ingeniously plotted, beautifully written, and suspenseful tale, a supreme achievement from one of mystery writing’s most gifted masters.

Livia Lone Guide

Livia Lone Guide

Sean Uenoyama

Malcolm Freeman

Lieutenant Donna Strangeland

Suzanne Moore

Alvin

Kawamoto-sensei 

Maija Soderholm, 

Fred Lone

Dotty Lone

Senator Ezra Lone - Matthias Redcroft

Ophelia, Lone

Rebecca “Becky” Lone

Rick Harris

Nanu

Billy Barnett

Timothy “Weed” Tyler

Jenny Jardin

Vela

Michael “Mech” Masnick

Kai

Yao

Square Head

Skull Face aka Kana aka Chanchai Vivavapit,   

Dirty Beard

November 8: Livia Lone by Barry Eisler

Livia Lone (Livia Lone #1) by Barry Eisler 

Seattle PD sex-crimes detective Livia Lone knows the monsters she hunts. Sold by her Thai parents along with her little sister, Nason; marooned in America; abused by the men who trafficked them…the only thing that kept Livia alive as a teenager was her determination to find Nason.

Livia has never stopped looking. And she copes with her failure to protect her sister by doing everything she can to put predators in prison.

Or, when that fails, by putting them in the ground.

But when a fresh lead offers new hope of finding Nason and the men who trafficked them both, Livia will have to go beyond just being a cop. Beyond even being a vigilante. She’ll have to relive the horrors of the past. Take on one of the most powerful men in the US government. And uncover a conspiracy of almost unimaginable evil.

In every way, it’s an unfair fight. But Livia has two advantages: her unending love for Nason—

And a lifelong lust for vengeance.

September 13 - Night Boat toTangier

 Night Boat toTangier Characters

Charles Redmond (Charlie Red), 50s

Maurice Hearne (Moss), 50s

Cynthia (left footed)

Dilly Hearne, 23

Frederique

Karima

Remick

Benny & Lorca

Leonor & Ana - Junior Cortes

Maam Valley

John James Clifton, landlord

Murphy, builder

Judas Iscariot

Nelson Lavin

Vincent Keogh

Steve Bromell

Jimmy Earls

Rita Kane

Edmond Leary

Sylvia 

Alvin Hay

A Recipe For Hardboiled Fiction

https://crimereads.com/a-recipe-for-hardboiled-fiction/ 

August 9 - Dana Stabenow, No Fixed Line

No Fixed Line Notes

Kate (Ekatarina) Shugak

Mutt

Ekatarina Shugak, grandmother

Jim Chopin - John Barton, Alaska Trooper Chief 

Pletnikof Investigations

Kurt Pletnikof

Tyler

Agrifina Fancyboy

Jack Morgan, Anchorage DA, former lover

Jane Morgan Wardwell, ex

Johnny, son - Vanessa (Van)

Det Josie Branson, Anchorage PD

James G. Mason (Gerry), FBI Special Agent

Bobby Clark - Dinah -  Katya (Ekatarina), 6

George Perry, Chugach Air Taxi

Brendan McCord, Anchorage DA

Ronald Reagen Brillo

Judge Roberta Singh

Chief Kenny Hazen

Pete Heiman, Congressman

Canyon Hot Springs

Laurel Meganack

Matt Grosdidier  

Anna

David

Grosdidier Clinic

Matt - Luke - Mark - Peter 

Auntie Vi’s B&B

Maria Jose Trevioso, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

David - Anna

Gaunt, O’Hanlon Ltd.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Agent Kevin Gaunt

Agent Allan O’Hanlon

Executive Air Charters

Roadhouse

Bernie Koslowski

Riverside Cafe

Laurel Meganack https://chopstop.com/order-now/

Martin Shugak

Valerie Doogan, principal

Bannister Foundation

Earland Bannister

Jane Morgan Wardwell

Eugene Hutchinson

Grants

Bering VoTech, Stephanie - $1.5 mi

Ahtna Women’s Shelter (Marlena Peratrovich) - $25,000 - $250,00

Seldovia Public Library, $10,000 - $100,000

Alaskans for a Sustainable Future, $300,000 - not $1 mil

Kichatna Academy, $400,000 - $1.4 mil

Father Smith

Gary Curley

Jared

Kev

8 Perfect Murders Notes

8 Perfect Murders Notes

Old Devil’s Bookstore

Malcolm Kershaw 

John Haley, print owner

New Blog - “Eight Perfect Murders”

Claire Mallory, car accident - Patrick Yates - Doctor Martha 

Black Barn Enterprises, Eric Atwell

Brian Murray, co-owner - Tess - Humphrey the dog Ellis Fitzgerald series

The Poison Tree (1)

The Sticking Place (5)

Temperate Blood

Die a Little 

The Wild Air, new

The Reaping Season

Emily Barsamian, am employee - seeing Jane

Jane Pendergast - The Owl Shall Stoop

Brandon Weeks, pm employee

Richard Stark - The Hunter

Robert Galbraith - The Cuckoo’s Calling

John le Carre - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Rick Murphy, prior employee

Duckburg

Bert KLing - Norman Chaney

Det. Roberta James

Nicholas Pruitt, brother-in-law

Little Fish, short stories

Jillian Nguyen

Nero, cat

Marty Kingship, former police office, friend

Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians)

“Fiction is so much better than reality”

“You introduced me to killing, and you introduced me to reading. And my life got better.”

It was where he found me, on Duckburg, looking for a fellow fan of Strangers on a Train

I’ve already said, we started to spend less time together. And that was when he came up with the idea of finishing off the murders from the list I’d written. ”

Margaret Lumm, customer

Mike and Becky Swenson, Minnesota

David Poppovich, Cut him off.

Doctor Sheppard

I am Halfway through your list …

Narrator, Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Gwen Mulvey, FBI Special Agent - Charlie

Agent Berry

Agent Perez

Seven Clifton - Gwen Mulvey’s father

Unsolved murders

Robin Callahan, Life’s Too Long,, The ABC Murders

Jay Bradshaw - The ABC Murders

Ethan Byrd

Bill Manso - Double Indemnity

Elaine Johnson - Deathtrap

memorable, difficult customer, abrasive

Det. Laura Cifelli

Patricia Cornwell - Postmortem, 1st ed

Michael Connelly - The Black Echo, 1st ed

handcuffs hanging from nail, Deathtrap

all 8 boos 

Daniel Gonzalez - The Secret History

Eight Perfect Murders

Agatha Christie’s A. B. C. Murders

Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train

Ira Levin’s Death Trap

A. A. Milne's Red House Mystery

Anthony Berkeley Cox's Malice Aforethought

James M. Cain's Double Indemnity

John D. Macdonald's The Drowner

Donna Tartt's A Secret History

Other Books mentioned

Ruth Rendell - Shake Hands Forever

Agatha Christie - A Pocket Full of Rye

Lawrence Kasdan - Body Heat, film

Dorothy Hughes - In a Lonely Place

Late Atkinson - Started Early, Took My Dog

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl, unreliable narrator 

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

Rex Stout - Too Many Cooks - named cat Nero

Ted Hughes - The Hawk in the Rain

Charles Willeford - The Burnt Orange Heresy

Lawrence Block - When the Ginmill Closes

Mysteries for a Cold Winter Night, old Blog Post

The Sittaford Mystery (1931) by Agatha Christie

The Nine Tailors (1934) by Dorothy L. Sayers

The Corpse in the Snowman (1941) by Nicholas Blake

Tied Up in Tinsel (1972) by Ngaio Marsh

The Shining (1977) by Stephen King

Gorky Park (1981) by Martin Cruz Smith

Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1992) by Peter Høeg

A Simple Plan (1993) by Scott Smith

The Ice Harvest (2000) by Scott Phillips

Raven Black (2006) by Ann Cleeves

Sharon Abrams list

Anthony Berkeley Cox - Aforethought

Dorothy L. Sayers - Gaudy Night

Dorothy L. Sayers - The Nine Tailors

Josephine They - The Daughter of Time

Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca

Faye Kellerman - The Ritual Bath

Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

2 Sue Grafton books

July 19 -Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson - NOTE date change

Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson 

A chilling tale of psychological suspense and an homage to the thriller genre tailor-made for fans: the story of a bookseller who finds himself at the center of an FBI investigation because a very clever killer has started using his list of fiction’s most ingenious murders.

Years ago, bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre’s most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack—which he titled “Eight Perfect Murders”—chosen from among the best of the best including Agatha Christie’s A. B. C. Murders, Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train, Ira Levin’s Death Trap, A. A. Milne's Red House Mystery, Anthony Berkeley Cox's Malice Aforethought, James M. Cain's Double Indemnity, John D. Macdonald's The Drowner, and Donna Tartt's A Secret History.

But no one is more surprised than Mal, now the owner of the Old Devils Bookstore in Boston, when an FBI agent comes knocking on his door one snowy day in February. She’s looking for information about a series of unsolved murders that look eerily similar to the killings on Mal’s old list. And the FBI agent isn’t the only one interested in this bookseller who spends almost every night at home reading. The killer is out there, watching his every move—a diabolical threat who knows way too much about Mal’s personal history, especially the secrets he’s never told anyone, even his recently deceased wife.

To protect himself, Mal begins looking into possible suspects . . . and sees a killer in everyone around him. But Mal doesn’t count on the investigation leaving a trail of death in its wake. Suddenly, a series of shocking twists leaves more victims dead—and the noose around Mal’s neck grows so tight he might never escape.

June 14 - North of Boston by Elisabeth Elo

 Year's Best Crime Novels: 2014, Booklist

Dennis Lehane meets Smilla’s Sense of Snow: a big discovery in the world of female suspense, about an edgy young woman with the rare ability to withstand extreme conditions

Elisabeth Elo’s debut novel introduces Pirio Kasparov, a Boston-bred tough-talking girl with an acerbic wit and a moral compass that points due north.

When the fishing boat Pirio is on is rammed by a freighter, she finds herself abandoned in the North Atlantic. Somehow, she survives nearly four hours in the water before being rescued by the Coast Guard. But the boat’s owner and her professional fisherman friend, Ned, is not so lucky.

Compelled to look after Noah, the son of the late Ned and her alcoholic prep school friend, Thomasina, Pirio can’t shake the lurking suspicion that the boat’s sinking—and Ned’s death—was no accident. It’s a suspicion seconded by her deeply cynical, autocratic Russian father, who tells her that nothing is ever what it seems. Then the navy reaches out to her to participate in research on human survival in dangerously cold temperatures.

With the help of a curious journalist named Russell Parnell, Pirio begins unraveling a lethal plot involving the glacial whaling grounds off Baffin Island. In a narrow inlet in the arctic tundra, Pirio confronts her ultimate challenge: to trust herself. 

A gripping literary thriller, North of Boston combines the atmospheric chills of Jussi Adler-Olsen with the gritty mystery of Laura Lippman. And Pirio Kasparov is a gutsy, compellingly damaged heroine with many adventures ahead. 

June 14 - North of Boston by Elisabeth Elo

 North of Boston Characters

Pirio Kasparov

Milosa (Mike), father 

Isa, mother - Isa’s scent

Maureen, stepmother

Inessa Mark, Inc. Snif Party - Jean-Luc Laboure

John Rodgers,account executive McKenzie and Ross

Jeffrey

Jared Jehobeth in the Morning

Susie - Charlotte

Martin Naggek - Tiffany - Matilda - Roger - Labrador tea

Sabrina 

Thomasina - Noah, 10

Ned Rizzo, Noah’s father - Molly Jones

Phyllis Rizzo, Ned’s mother

Max (Maxwell Little-Pierce)

Larry Wozniak - Russell Parnell

Gaston School

Headmaster Richard Bates

U S Coast Guard

Captain Anthony Cavalieri

EPIRB

U S Navy

Commander Stockwell

Trudy Flanagan

Ocean Catch

Dustin Hall, owner

Libby Smith - Jasper

Captain Lou Diggens - Sea Wolf

John Oster, Crazy John, Johnny O, or Oyster Man

Goatee Man

Galaxy - Brock, Hall, Dennis, Troy

Bob Jaeger - Cardad Jaeger

Margot

Dustin Hall

Yevgeny Petrenko - Kapitan Yolkov

Jorn Ekborg

Richard Lawler

Alan Stempel 

Who is the greatest fictional detective? A new book reminds us why it’s Poirot.

No, looked at historically, the only true contenders for world’s finest super-sleuth are Holmes and Poirot (with Wolfe and G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown close behind)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/who-is-the-greatest-fictional-detective-a-new-book-reminds-us-why-its-poirot/2021/04/13/f392cea8-9bb0-11eb-9d05-ae06f4529ece_story.html

Newcomer Characters

 CAST OF CHARACTERS

Mineko Mitsui—victim

Kyoichiro Kaga—detective, Nihonbashi Precinct

OMAKARA, THE RICE CRACKER SHOP

Satoko Kamikawa—grandmother

Naho Kamikawa—granddaughter

Fumitaka Kamikawa—son of Satoko and father of Naho

Shinichi Takura—insurance agent

MATSUYA, A TRADITIONAL JAPANESE RESTAURANT

Yoriko—manager and co-owner 

Taiji—co-owner with his wife, 

Yoriko Shuhei—apprentice 

Katsuya—apprentice

YANAGISAWA’S CHINA SHOP

Naoya Yanagisawa—husband and son

Maki Yanagisawa—wife and daughter-in-law

Suzue Yanagisawa—mother and mother-in-law

TERADA’S CLOCK SHOP

Genichi Terada—owner of the shop

Shimako Terada—wife of Genichi

Kanae Terada—daughter of Genichi and Shimako

Akifumi Yoneoka—apprentice

QUATTRO, A PASTRY SHOP

Miyuki—clerk

Reiko Nakanishi—manager Kenichi—Miyuki’s partner

Kenichi - customer, friend of Miyuki

———

Koki Kiyose - Mineko’s son

Naohiro Kiyose - Koki’s father

Ami Aoyama - Koki’s girlfriend

Machiko Fujiwara (Machi) - Mineko’s friend

FRIEND OF THE TRANSLATOR

Tamiko Yoshioka

Koji Tachibana - reino

———

THE PRESIDENT OF THE CLEANING COMPANY

Ikuo Yamada - actor

Shinozuka - director

Shizuko Takamachi - lawyer

Yosaku Kishida - accountant, Reiko Nakanishi’s father-in-law

Yuri Miyamoto - secretary

Tokiko - Yuri’s mother

HOZUKIYA, A HANDICRAFTS SHOP

Masayo Fujiyama—owner

Misaki Sugawara—part-time worker

———

Shota - Reiko’s son

Katsuya Kishida - Reiko Nakanishi’s husband

———

Koki Kiyose—son of the victim

Naohiro Kiyose—ex-husband of the victim

Tamiko Yoshioka—translator and friend of the victim Yuri Miyamoto—new secretary to Naohiro Kiyose Yosaku Kishida—accountant to Naohiro Kiyose

THE DETECTIVE OF NIHONBASHI

Hiroshi Uesugi—detective, Tokyo Metropolitan Police, Homicide Division

May 10 - Newcomer by Keigo Higashino

 A New York Times Editor's Choice *

"Part Sherlock Holmes, part Harry Bosch, Higashino's hero is a quietly majestic force to be reckoned with." ―Kirkus Reviews (starred) 

International bestseller Keigo Higashino returns with his latest mindbender―Newcomer―as newly transferred Tokyo Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga is assigned to a baffling murder.

Detective Kyochiro Kaga of the Tokyo Police Department has just been transferred to a new precinct in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo. Newly arrived, but with a great deal of experience, Kaga is promptly assigned to the team investigating the murder of a woman. But the more he investigates, the greater number of potential suspects emerges. It isn’t long before it seems nearly all the people living and working in the business district of Nihonbashi have a motive for murder. To prevent the murderer from eluding justice, Kaga must unravel all the secrets surrounding a complicated life. Buried somewhere in the woman’s past, in her family history, and the last few days of her life is the clue that will lead to the murderer. 

From the international bestseller Keigo Higashino, author of The Devotion of Suspect X, comes one of his finest works of crime fiction yet.

MURDER BELOW MONTPARNASSE:Characters

MURDER BELOW MONTPARNASSE: An Aimee Leduc Investigation by Cara Black

Leduc Detective - Aimée Leduc Investigations.

Aimee Leduc - Miles Davis

Mother - Sidney Leduc (Haader-Rofmein)

Renee Friant - CTO, Tradelert, Andy, Bob, Susie - Captain Phil

Saj de Rosnay

Maxence

Martine

Commissaire Morbier

Inspector Melac

Serge Pierre

Raphael Dombasle 

Modligliani

Yuri Volodin - in butter

Piotr Volodin

Madame Natasha - Okhrana

Madame Figuer

Madame Belluci

Oleg Volodin -  Tatyana

Damien Perret

Florent

Luebet

Serb/Feliks (Xylazine)

Goran

Morgane Tulle

Fleche

Servier

Bereskova

Svetla

Rasputin

Marina

April 12 - Murder Below Montparnasse by Cara Black

Murder Below Montparnasse (Aimee Leduc Investigations #13)

A long-lost Modigliani portrait, a grieving brother’s blood vendetta, a Soviet secret that’s been buried for 80 years—Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc’s current case is her most exciting one yet.

The cobbled streets of Montparnasse might have been boho-chic in the 1920s, when artists, writers, and their muses drank absinthe and danced on cafe tables. But to Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc, these streets hold darker secrets. When an old Russian man named Yuri hires Aimée to protect a priceless painting that just might be a Modigliani, she learns how deadly art theft can be. Yuri is found tortured to death in his atelier, and the painting is missing. Every time Aimée thinks she's found a new witness, the body count rises. What exactly is so special about this painting that so many people are willing to kill--and die--for it? 

The Infatuations Characters

Maria Dolz, Prudent Young Woman

Eugeni  

Beatriz

Cortezo, argyle socks

Garay Fontina, Nobel speech

Miguel Desvern or Deverne, 50 - advanced metastatic melanoma

Luisa Alday, Luisa Desvern 39

Carolina, 8

Nicolas, 4

Javier Díaz-Varela

Ruibérriz de Torres

Dr.José Manuel Vidal Secanell

Professor Francisco Rico

Luis Felipe Vázquez Canella, gorrilla

 

March 8 - The Infatuations

The Infatuations by Javier Marías,  Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)

From the award-winning Spanish writer Javier Marías comes an extraordinary new book that has been a literary sensation around the world: an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder that we come to understand—or do we?—through one woman’s ever-unfurling imagination and infatuations.

At the Madrid café where she stops for breakfast each day before work, María Dolz finds herself drawn to a couple who is also there every morning. Though she can hardly explain it, observing what she imagines to be their “unblemished” life lifts her out of the doldrums of her own existence. But what begins as mere observation turns into an increasingly complicated entanglement when the man is fatally stabbed in the street. María approaches the widow to offer her condolences, and at the couple’s home she meets—and falls in love with—another man who sheds disturbing new light on the crime. As María recounts this story, we are given a murder mystery brilliantly reimagined as metaphysical enquiry, a novel that grapples with questions of love and death, guilt and obsession, chance and coincidence, how we are haunted by our losses, and above all, the slippery essence of the truth and how it is told.

Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

 “One of the most authentic, gripping, and profound collection of police procedurals ever accomplished.” – Michael Connelly

https://crimereads.com/maj-sjowall-and-per-wahloo-a-crime-readers-guide-to-the-classics/

February 8 - Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes

 Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes

DPD Homicide

Captain Joe Miranda, Old Blue Eyes

Det. Gabriella “Gabi” Versado - William - threefer

Layla Stirling-Versado, 15 - Masque Theater School - Mrs. Westcott - Future Promise class

Cassnadra “Cas” Holt - SusieLee2002 - VelvetBoy (Phil)

Dorian (Dorkian)

Det. Bob Boyd’Det. Ovella Washington

Det. Luke Strikcer

Det. Mike Croff

PO Marcus Jones “ Sparkles”

Jessica diMenna, mayor’s office

Dr. Mackay

Maxie Lautner, taxidermist

Pail Lafonte - Juliet LaFonte

Dayeyton Lafonte, 11

Humboldt Middle School - Carla Fuentes

Jonno Haim, 37

Jen Q. 29 - Packard Plant

Scott

Clayton Elias Broom, 53 

PatrickThorpe, curator - Darcy D’Angelol, m

Betty Spinks - Peter Morrow

Robin Mitchell

Donald Synder, security guard

TK (Thomas Michael Keen aka Tommy, Tom, Tee)  - Florence (Florry) - Leroy 

mother - Ricky Furman

Rev Alan

Lanny

Ramon (Delray) Flores

Diyanna Green

Louanne Becker - Charlie

Big Dennis