https://malwarwickonbooks.com/category/mysteries-thrillers/feed/
-
![]()
Sara Paretsky’s aging detective fights corruptionHave you ever wondered why the heroes in detective stories never seem to get any older? You might know perfectly well that the author is,...
-
![]()
World War I, up close and personalWhen I was born, shortly before the United States entered World War II, the Great War of 1914 to 1918 was an active living memory for many...
-
![]()
An engaging historical mystery set in the South PacificFor most Americans and Europeans, the name Fiji conjures up images of golden beaches, lush jungle landscapes, and coconut palms waving in a...
-
![]()
Two young men of color die in police shootingsOn a single night, two young men of color die at the hands of white cops in Denver and the adjoining town of Blackwater Falls. One, Mateo...
-
![]()
A CIA plot to destabilize the Russian governmentYou don’t need a career in the CIA or MI6 to write a great spy novel, but it helps. And former CIA analyst David McCloskey put his...
-
![]()
Police procedurals spanning modern Russian historyFrom 1981 to 2009, the late Stuart Kaminsky wrote a series of sixteen Russian mystery novels centered on Inspector Porfiry Petrovich...
-
![]()
Down home with the lady detectives againHere we are again, back with Mma Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of Botswana’s #1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. And of course all the...
-
![]()
In 1536, a lawyer investigates a murder at a monasteryOver 1,200 years of its tumultuous history, sixty-three men and women have ruled England. But no monarch, man or woman, has gained more...
-
![]()
A Russian detective on a murder case in Castro’s CubaSasha Tkach and Emil Karpo (“the Vampire”) are in Moscow, on the trail of a Russian serial killer with multiple personality...
-
![]()
Assessing the first of the Inspector Maigret novelsBelgian author Georges Simenon set a dubious record with the publication of 75 novels in his series about Paris police commissioner Jules...
-
![]()
Cormoran Strike takes on a criminal sex cultThe world’s richest author, J. K. Rowling, wrapped up the blockbuster seven-book Harry Potter series in 2007, and six years later she...
-
![]()
A compelling spy novel about living a double lifeWe all have secrets. . . Secrets are a part of our lives and the lives of literature’s great characters. But spies operate in a more...
-
![]()
A standalone novel from the author of “Slough House”By my count, Mick Herron has written a total of eleven books in the Slough House series since the first, Slow Horses , appeared in 2010....
-
![]()
An action-packed medical thriller set in orbital spaceGravity opens in the Galápagos Rift nineteen thousand feet below the surface of the South Pacific. And it reaches a shattering conclusion...
-
![]()
A gripping tale of intrigue in wartime StockholmFor most Americans, World War II was all about the war in the Pacific and what took place after the Allied invasions of Italy and northern...
-
![]()
A novel of suspense with roots in colonial AfricaRobert Goddard writes suspenseful crime thrillers that typically span many years of British history. Invariably, they demonstrate...
-
![]()
Is this the Great American novel?James McBride won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2013 for The Good Lord Bird . It’s an often-hilarious novel about the...
-
![]()
A terrific standalone historical thrillerBritish American author Jacqueline Winspear has gained wide readership for the seventeen novels in her Maisie Dobbs series . The books...
-
![]()
A baffling mystery based on ciphersA teaser on the cover of the edition I read promises a tale of “a priceless manuscript, a missing scholar, and a trail of...
-
![]()
When the cracks opened wide in Boston societyMary Pat Fennessy lives on the wrong side of the tracks. In South Boston, or “Southie” as the locals call it, a heavily Irish...
-
![]()
The engrossing John Madden British police proceduralsIronic, isn’t it? Some of the best English mystery novels are written by people who aren’t British. Consider the work of...
-
![]()
A colonial-era mystery set in British CeylonOn the globe, Sri Lanka is that small teardrop off the southeast coast of India, and today it’s the source of about one-tenth of the...
-
![]()
A fascinating historical mystery novelEvery mystery novel possesses characters, a plot, and a setting—but one of those three elements tends to be dominant in each. For example,...
-
![]()
The best Russian mysteries and thrillersOkay, it’s not entirely accurate to call the books listed below as “Russian mysteries and thrillers.” If the truth be told, none of them...
-
![]()
Fighting crime in Bombay a century agoRead the first several chapters of Sujata Massey’s engrossing fourth entry in her series about the first woman lawyer in Bombay, and...
