Crime / Mystery Books & Stories: Buy or Read Any Recently?

[MajorHoy]

Somehow I forgot about this one. I'm going to have to get it as soon as I can. I love the Booktown series.

I'm also waiting for another library to get in the new Lighthouse Library Mystery for my Mom: Death by Beach Read, which was released this past Tuesday.

And later this month, Barbara Ross' new Maine Clambake Mystery is due out: Muddled Through.

[Deathstroke]

I'm also waiting for another library to get in the new Lighthouse Library Mystery for my Mom: Death by Beach Read, which was released this past Tuesday.

And later this month, Barbara Ross' new Maine Clambake Mystery is due out: Muddled Through.

I've met Barbara Ross and have a few of her books. I'm going to have to get that Library Lighthouse mystery as well.

[MajorHoy]

Recently got delivery of:

The Wrong Murder by Craig Rice
<A John J. Malone Mystery #3>

and

Claws for Alarm by Cate Conte
<A Cat Café Mystery #5>
for my Mom

And next week I should be receiving

The Complete Cases of the Acme Indemnity Op, Volume 1
by John Lawrence

[MajorHoy]

. . . I'm going to have to get that Library Lighthouse mystery as well.

Checked out Death by Beach Read from a library for my Mom today.

Also, a publisher I like that publishes collections of old pulp stories is having a 25% off sale through their website this weekend (through July 4th).
See: https://steegerbooks.com/save-25-thi...-sale-is-on-2/ for specifics if you're interested.

I'm planning to order a few books myself . . .

[Captain Smith]

Safe House by Stuart Woods. The worst of all the Stone Barrington books. idiot plot and characterization. Moronic ending. Skip it, in fact run away if you see it.

The Investigator - John Standford - Letty Daveport in her own book. Worth it. Good story and a worthy successor to Lucas.

[Deathstroke]

The Investigator - John Standford - Letty Daveport in her own book. Worth it. Good story and a worthy successor to Lucas.

I got to review the book for Mystery Scene magazine and I loved it!

[MajorHoy]

Recently got delivery of

The Hoods Take Over by Ovid Demaris
(orig. published 1957 by Gold Medal Books;
© 1957 by Fawcett Publications, Inc. /
published April 2019 by Stark House Press/Black Gat Books)

[MajorHoy]

Safe House by Stuart Woods. The worst of all the Stone Barrington books. idiot plot and characterization. Moronic ending. Skip it, in fact run away if you see it...

Reminds me of an old book review that's been attributed to Dorothy Parker in the past:

"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."

[MajorHoy]

Got delivery today of:

Hangman's Harvest by Kendell Foster Crossen
{writing as "M.E. Chaber"}
<A Milo March Mystery #1>
(orig. published February 1952 by Henry Holt & Co. <hardcover> /
cover art by Robert McGinnis for a 1971 paperback /
published 2020 by Steeger Books)

[MajorHoy]

Borrowed a couple more new cozy mysteries from a library today for my Mom:

The Paper Caper by Kate Carlisle
(Book #16 in the "Bibliophile Mystery" series)

and


Murder Spills the Tea by Vicki Delaney
(Book #3 in the "Tea by the Sea Mysteries" series.)

[Deathstroke]

Murder Spills the Tea by Vicki Delaney
(Book #3 in the "Tea by the Sea Mysteries" series.)[/INDENT]

I'm a big fan of Vicki Delany's work but while I've got the first two books in this series, I haven't gotten around to reading them yet.

[MajorHoy]

Borrowed a couple more new cozy mysteries from area libraries yesterday and today for my Mom:

The Darling Dahlias and the Red Hot Poker by Susan Wittig Albert
(Book #10 in the series)

and


A Catered Doggie Wedding by Isis Crawford
(Book #17 in the "A Mystery With Recipes" series.)

[MajorHoy]

Ordered a couple more books for myself last night:

The Complete Cases of Bill Brent, Volume 2
by Frederick C. Davis

and


The Complete Cases of the Arson Dick
by Leslie T White

[MajorHoy]

Borrowed another new cozy mystery from a nearby library for my Mom:

Round Up the Usual Peacocks (A Meg Langslow Mystery)
by Donna Andrews
(Book #31 in the series)

[Deathstroke]

I picked up the two most recent Thomas Kies books:

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