Tag: crime-fiction

• Agatha Award Winners 2024: Celebrating Traditional Mysteries

  

  If you’re a fan of Agatha Christie, you’ll likely find something to love in this annual awards roundup. Fans chose the winners, which cannot include explicit sex, gore or violence.

  N.K. Mitchell

  July 1, 2024

  Amateur Sleuths, Award winners, Contemporary Setting, Cozy Mystery, Historical Setting, Private Investigators, Traditional Mystery, Young Adult

  agatha-christie, book-review, book-reviews, books, crime-fiction, mystery

• Welcome Back, Vic! The Tough Chicago PI Returns

  

  The now middle-aged Warshawski is still reeling from her last case when she agrees to search for a missing young woman in Kansas — and then stumbles across another woman’s body. I loved book 22 in this series.

  N.K. Mitchell

  June 30, 2024

  Contemporary Setting, New Release, Private Investigators, Traditional Mystery

  book-review, books, crime-fiction, fiction, mystery, reviews

• A Flawed Protagonist Searches for the Missing, and Redemption

  

  Frankie Elkin is an “average, middle-aged white woman” who travels from one missing-persons case to the next, dragging a single suitcase behind her. Think Jack Reacher, but with fewer muscles and more underwear.

  N.K. Mitchell

  June 29, 2024

  Amateur Sleuths, Backlist, Noir Mystery

  crime-fiction, fiction, lisa-gardner, reviews, thriller

• Left Coast Crime Award Winners: Female Sleuths Win Big

  

  It’s time for the 2023 best mystery awards season, and winners can be a great source for new additions to your TBR (to be read) list. Female sleuths swept the “Lefty” awards.

  N.K. Mitchell

  April 20, 2024

  Award winners

  book-review, book-reviews, books, crime-fiction, mystery