Tag: Fiction
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 ›
John Steakley’s Vampires
Have you ever started reading a book, but for whatever reason set it aside—and possibly in the process lost track of your copy—only to pick it up to read years later? Years ago—likely in the mid1990s—I picked up a vampire book. I started reading it, but (j’en sais quoi) I really don’t remember why I set… 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 ›
18 Reads for Halloween
Recommended Reads: 18 Reads for Halloween Discover new authors (or revisit old favorites) with The Poisoned Martini ‘s Recommended Reads. Perhaps these suggested titles will expand your reading list. *** With Halloween approaching, now is the perfect time to settle in with a gothic or terror-inducing read. These chilling stories may make you think twice about… Read More ›
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. *** 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 ›
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. *** 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 ›
Billy Boyle: World War II Mystery
In the opening pages, Lieutenant William Boyle has finished typing. “I pulled the sheets out of the typewriter, separated out the carbon paper, and made two neat stacks. My offical report.” What follows is his first adventure as special investigator for his “uncle”, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Billy Boyle “made detective three days before Pearl Harbor.” … Read More ›
Recommended Reads
Discover new authors (or revisit old favorites) with The Poisoned Martini ‘s newest monthly feature: Recommended Reads. Perhaps these suggested titles will expand your reading list. *** Spotlight on Soho Press! Founded in 1986, Soho Press publishes literary fiction and, under the Soho Crime imprint, international mysteries. Travel the globe in the pages of these mysteries by… Read More ›
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