Mystery 
Recommended Reads
Discover new authors (or revisit old favorites) with The Poisoned Martini ‘s Recommended Reads. Perhaps these suggested titles will expand your reading list. *** Culinary Mysteries! Thinking about food this holiday season? There are numerous culinary mysteries to whet your appetite. These sweet tales serve up coffee, cheese, desserts and more along with a body or… Read More ›
Murder in the British Isles
Read along with The Poisoned Martini … The British Isles have long been a source of intriguing mysteries. In fact, Judith Flanders’ 2013 book, The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime, touches on this very topic. True crimes perpetrated by Jack the Ripper, infamous body snatchers… Read More ›
The Daughter of Time
What would you do if you were cooped up, staring at the ceiling, with nothing to engage your mind? Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard finds himself in just such a position, having fallen through, of all things, a trap door! To relieve his boredom, at the suggestion of his friend, actress Marta Hallard, he endeavors to… Read More ›
Strangers on a Train
“The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm. It was having to stop at smaller and more frequent stations, where it would wait impatiently for a moment, then attack the prairie again.” Guy Haines is on that train thinking about divorcing his wife, Miriam. In a matter of moments, he will meet Charles Anthony Bruno… Read More ›
Dorothy L. Sayers’ Whose Body?
A scant two years before the introduction of that Belgian detective, Dorothy L. Sayers featured gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey in her 1923 novel, Whose Body? When we first meet him, Wimsey is in a taxi. He’s forgotten his catalogue for an auction and returns home to retrieve it. Just as he arrives his butler/valet… Read More ›
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Discover new authors (or revisit old favorites) with The Poisoned Martini ‘s Recommended Reads. Perhaps these suggested titles will expand your reading list. *** Paranormal Mysteries! With Halloween approaching, now is the perfect time to try one of the growing number of supernatural-tinged mysteries. Such genre defying stories are often hard to categorize as they tend to… Read More ›
Dark Horse
Nicky ‘Nick’ Rigopoulos finds himself a dark horse in a race to solve a frame up—his own. Nick’s day starts off well enough. He’s in a courtroom handling a personal injury case. “None of his cases went to trial anymore. That was the way he liked it—no risk. Just put your John Hancock right there… Read More ›
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Discover new authors (or revisit old favorites) with The Poisoned Martini ‘s Recommended Reads. Perhaps these suggested titles will expand your reading list. *** Academic Mysteries! Murder mysteries are an exercise in using our little grey cells to solve the crime. What better setting for a devious crime than an academic one? The approaching fall season… Read More ›
A Kiss Before Dying
“His plans had been running so beautifully, so goddamned beautifully, and now she was going to smash them all. Hate erupted and flooded through him, gripping his face with jaw-aching pressure. That was all right though; the lights were out.” Dorothy ‘Dorrie’ Kingship has just told her boyfriend she’s pregnant. “Finally his face relaxed. He put… Read More ›
Killer Theory: ABC’s Whodunnit
Really, it was only a matter of time before reality show contestants participated in a murder mystery-themed game. Not surprisingly the ‘penalty’ for failing to solve the case is murder. In “Whodunnit?”, thirteen guests arrive at Rue Manor where they are greeted by Giles, the butler, and two creepy, silent maids. When one of the… Read More ›
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