The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons by Karin Smirnoff
This is the seventh instalment in the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series. Originated by Stieg Larson (deceased) in a three book trilogy (and televised…
Book Reviews
The Dark Wives (Vera #11) by Ann Cleeves
The latest instalment follows on closely from the previous book, The Rising Tide. Vera is still grieving for the loss of a team member, when…
The Woman Before Wallis by Andrew Rose
This is a fascinating non-fiction story excellently written and explained. The book details the life of Marguerite Alibert, a high class Parisian courtesan who famously…
To Die For by David Baldacci
The author has delivered another ripping action spymaster thriller in the Travis Devine, Department of Homeland Security, series. This is book three of the series…
2024 Year In Review: Award Winners
Discover the year’s best books and award winners for 2024, focusing on the major literary and crime writing awards.
2024 Year In Review: SMSA’s Top 10 Mysteries
Mystery & Crime lovers abound at SMSA, so we have highlighted the top books from that genre this year. Which have you read? We hope…
2024 Year In Review: SMSA’s Top 10 Books
Have you managed to read all of SMSA’s most popular books? Discover our Top 10 most borrowed titles for 2024, in our Year in Review…
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
This book constitutes one of the finest readings I have had in the last months, and which I cannot but strongly recommend. Set in Penang,…
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Utopic or dystopic? This foreboding depiction of humanity’s potential future emphasizes the bliss in ignorance, and crafts an eerily appealing society where everybody is happy…
The Black Friar by S. G. MacLean
It is not often one finds a mystery or crime fiction plot so well woven, so well plotted that one almost forgets about the meticulous…
A Refiner’s Fire by Donna Leon
When is a National Hero not a Hero? That is the question to be pondered in this, the 34th instalment in the Commissario Brunetti mystery…
The Seeker by S. G. MacLean
This historical crime fiction novel is set in the time and place of London, England, 1654, in the first year of Oliver Cromwell’s rule as…