Like many places at the time, Mexico City in the early 1970’s was a cold-war battleground; chaos was all consuming and danger ever present. As viscerally demonstrated in the movie Roma, paramilitary groups could attack student protestors with impunity. In that case, it was an outing to buy a crib that landed a pregnant woman […]
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Altered Carbon is a science fiction mystery thriller published almost fifty years after Asimov’s science fiction mystery, the Caves of Steel. Asimov envisaged a future humanity afraid and suspicious of robot intelligence. Morgan’s Altered Carbon future is the polar opposite. Humanity has embraced digital technology to such an extent that even the human mind is […]
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The Maid, by Nita Prose, published January 4, 2022, is an absorbing mystery that will engage its readers from the start with its elements of the movie Clue, Agatha Christie-esque puzzle, and satisfying twists. Main character Molly Gray (or, Molly Maid as she is known among acquaintances) narrates the story, letting readers into her […]
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Tana French’s hard-to-believe murder mystery follows detective Cassie Maddox as she operates in an undercover capacity, slipping into the life of Lexie Madison, a murdered woman who was fraudulently living as detective Maddox’s undercover persona. Taking place in Glenskehy, a small town outside of Dublin, Ireland, the murder occurs near an abandoned, dilapidated cottage near […]
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L.A. Requiem is a detective novel by Robert Crais published in 1999. It is the 8th in the series that centers on Elvis Cole, a private detective of the hard-boiled ilk in Los Angeles, California. Cole is brought into the mysterious death of Karen Garcia by his business partner, long-time friend and former Police Officer, […]
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