In Hercule Poirot's Christmas, Simeon Lee has gathered his family back home for Christmas. Four sons, their wives and one granddaughter are present the day that ends with him being murdered. Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha ChristieThis entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction mystery on December 28, 2020 by Sarah Anne Carter
1 [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “A ridiculous-looking little man. The sort of little man one could never take seriously.” Hercule Poirot has just finished helping solve a problem for a friend in an Eastern European army and has boarded a train to start heading home. A cry is heard, a man is […] Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieThis entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction mystery on May 21, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter
[sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “… passion is a strange thing, a thing that warps and twists everything with which it comes in contact.” An elderly woman dies in a nursing home, which would normally be a non-event to anyone outside of her family. Another resident wants her room set aside as […] Death Without Company by Craig JohnsonThis entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction mystery on May 18, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter
1 “We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us …” Rollo Martins shows up in Vienna at the request of his friend, only to find out it’s the day of his friend’s funeral. The Third Man is set in post-WWII Vienna where the […] The Third Man by Graham GreeneThis entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction mystery on December 11, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter
“Everything had seemed so perfect just a few weeks ago. And now, I stood to lose everything.” Lucy has moved to her grandmother’s farm to try and make a quiet life for herself homesteading after spending many years in Houston as a busy journalist. There’s the dewberries to make jam […] Killer Jam by Karen MacInerneyThis entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction mystery on September 18, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter
1 “I pulled my hat down straight and told Ruby that if anybody else called about dead bodies, we had already filled the quota for a Friday and they should call back next week.” Sherriff Walter Longmire watches over Absaroka County, Wyoming, with the help of his secretary, deputies, his […] The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery by Craig JohnsonThis entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction mystery on June 5, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter
“I’d always had a lousy poker face … I got away with very little. Which is why I tried to keep fairly straight these days. It simplifies things.” Callahan is a cop turned private investigator turned house-cleaning business owner. A chance encounter with an old friend due to a maid […] Every Crooked Nanny by Mary Kay Andrews (Kathy Hogan Trocheck)This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction mystery on October 21, 2016 by Sarah Anne Carter
“If she were honest, she’d thought little of her nineteenth-century counterparts. She’d judged them and, because they were different, had found them wanting. It shamed her. These people might not have the sophisticated tools of her era, but they were all intelligent. She might not be able to trust them […] A Murder in Time by Julie McElwainThis entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction mystery on August 5, 2016 by Sarah Anne Carter