The Department of Sensitive Crimes (Detective Varg #1) by Alexander McCall Smith

I am a big fan of the author and his unique take on people and their relationships. That said, this new series based in Sweden is not off to a very great start. The main character is Ulf Vargas and although he is an interesting enough character I found some of the relationships he has…

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Mathematical Mysteries 1 &2 by Jonathan Pinnock

It has been a while since I had this book on my virtual shelves and although I found the writing entertaining, something always seemed to come in the way and I did not get around to reading it last year. This year though, I found out that the second book was releasing and thought of…

The Return of Mr Campion: Uncollected Stories by Margery Allingham

This is a slight misnomer since Mr. Campion and his creator are but a part of the stories included in this collection. I was delighted with my first international physical ARC. I was excited to be given an opportunity to read it and this in no way effected my review, which is completely based on…

The Umbrella Men by Keith Carter

I do not know what drew me to this book in the first place, but I am really glad something did. If one reads as many books as I do in the time that I have, a pattern emerges. This relates to the type of books and stories that become some sort of standard. This…

The Fifteen Wonders of Daniel Green by Erica Boyce

I am back!! Did you notice I was missing in action? I was still reading other people's posts and liking them but I was neither reading nor writing rough drafts of my reviews in my head for the entirety of the last week. My parents and grandmother dropped by for a flying visit of six…

The Murder of My Aunt by Richard Hull

I read and reviewed another of this author's works here. I have been enjoying these British Classics being published by Poisoned Press publications. They are my cup of tea in terms of the writing and content. I do not know if I am partial to the writing because they are a throwback to the books…

The House of Unexpected Sisters (No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #18) by Alexander McCall Smith

As mentioned in my first book review in a while, Flaxborough Chronicles #11 #12 I am going to schedule this post to publish a little while later. I did not really intend to get to this (currently) last book published in this series. I thought I would get to it in my own sweet time in order to…

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently #2) by Douglas Adams

I reviewed or attempted to review the previous book of the series here : Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency . I encourage you to read the first review before proceeding, in order to get an idea of what you might be heading in to this review. Now that you are back from that review I…