Kingdom Books, Mysteries - Reviews

You've got a young reader in mind, and you reach for a Nancy Drew book from the shelf -- take a moment to recall her "roadster...

Black Opal Books, a small publisher with West Coast roots, is releasing ALDO in paperback on March 24. I've been mentioning the trend ...

Highly engrossing, engaging, and unpredictable -- that's this winter's debut novel from Vermont author Kaela Coble , FRIENDS &...

Soho Crime has just added to its Japanese mysteries by publishing the debut novel of Clarissa Goenawan , RAINBIRDS. It couldn't be muc...

Exploring another place and culture through an enjoyable mystery in that setting has a long tradition -- readers have long appreciated vin...

Kathryn Harkup calls herself a "science communicator," and her book A is for Arsenic: The Pisons of Agatha Christie made quite...

What a great trend, to have European mysteries being translated at a newly rapid pace to bring fresh settings and attitudes to American re...

The moment I opened the American publication of R. J. Ellory 's THE DEVIL AND THE RIVER, I knew I was hooked. Although I spread my rea...

It's a small world, true enough. But in the world of mystery fiction, it's also a very wide world with more good books and skilled...

There's a new-ish trend among university presses that's fascinating to observe: an urge to publish fiction, including thrillers an...

Coupled with the title, the cover on Carter Wilson 's fifth book, MISTER TENDER'S GIRL, scared me -- in fact, I found the combo so...

I'm a major fan of Mick Herron 's " Slow Horses" espionage novels . They're British and embedded in the classic MI5 ...

Nothing is simple in Mark Winkler' s crime fiction -- least of all the motivation of the protagonist. In MY NAME IS NATHAN LUCIUS (his...

Sometimes books arrive here for review after they've already been released -- and KILLING PACE is one of those. I wasn't wild abou...

Last year's mystery from Randall Silvis was Two Days Gone , a superb work of compelling suspense that tested the impact of once-in-a-...

Wow! I really liked Jonathan Moore's mystery from last year, The Dark Room . And I figured I'd enjoy the 2018 book, which was al...

Mark Pryor is British by birth and bucked the author trend by moving to Austin, Texas, to become an assistant district attorney. His Hugo ...

Newly released this week is a hot new historical mystery from Soho Crime -- one that's been widely anticipated for its colorful depictio...

Love a good traditional mystery with a smart amateur sleuth, hot clues, red herrings, an intriguing setting, and characters you can bond w...

People still obsess about America's most well-known art heist: The one that took place at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum...