Author: Peter Turnbull

I was introduced to this author by a friend of a friend who sold quilt show raffle tickets with me. I was able to find this one at the library; it is the second in the Harry Vicary series.

I didn’t like this as well as I like the Shetland or Vera series. It may be because the characters aren’t familiar yet but none of them, including Harry, seemed all that interesting.

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Author: Jussi Adler-Olsen

This book came in the December bag from my Guild Secret Pal. I’d never heard of the author but his award puts him in the same category as Henning Mankell, Jo Nesbø and Stieg Larsson – all authors I’ve enjoyed.

Carl Mørck has been promoted after a shooting incident left one of his partners dead and another permanently disabled. His “promotion” puts him alone in the basement of the building as head of Department Q tasked with solving cold cases.

I liked the method used to tell the story. In most cases we had one chapter about the investigation into the cold case followed by a chapter about the case Carl is investigating.

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Author: Liliana Hart

This author has written a lot of books – there are six in this series alone. I won’t be reading any more of them though.

The heroine, J.J. Graves, is a mortician and the coroner in a small town. Her best friend is the sheriff. She has a good sense of humour and, while there are a few murders involved, the book seemed more like a romance novel than a good mystery. The murderer is only mentioned in six chapters and never even showed up on my radar. I like a mystery where I have at least a fighting chance of figuring out who-done-it.

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Author: Thrity Umrigar

I was thrilled to find there was a sequel to The Space Between Us and I loved it just as much. Bhima and her granddaughter, Maya, are back. A background character in the first book, of Bhima’s generation, is further developed and there are two new modern women added that relate more to Maya.

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