“Cold, hungry, sick with typhus, and limping from the dog bite on her leg, Czeslawa has forgotten most things. Only in her dreams does Czeslawa remember:
“a phenomenal book, the conclusion to a magnificent trilogy as well-written and psychologically powerful as the Regeneration Trilogy, which raised Barker’s stature more than three decades a
A distraught husband, Ronnie Armitrage, is found returning to his car in a field, saying his wife may have run toward the ocean after an argument and drowned.
“Archer’s bold thriller structure bares all motives and manipulations, so there are few surprises and no secrets here, but the suspense of each interaction resembles the final rounds of a c
“Though this is far from the modern crime fiction she’s known for, McDermid weaves Queen Macbeth from the same understanding of longings for safety, justice, and yes, love.”
The Empusium reprises many aspects of Thomas Mann’s The MagicMountain: a sanatorium (this one in Lower Silesia) for the treatment of tuberculosis; a time period set in 1
“Some Murders in Berlin blends historic forensics and international intrigue in ways that should guarantee it a place on the thriller and investigations shelf.”
