Death in a Dacron Sail by N A Granger

Rhe Brewster is a sassy lady.  Not content with working part time in ER and looking after her hyperactive son, she is also a consultant with the local police department.  I first met her in the murder mystery Death in a Red Canvas Chair and now she has returned, brave and intelligent as ever, toContinue reading “Death in a Dacron Sail by N A Granger”

The Case of the Bullets at the Ballet by C S Boag

Rainbow is a Private Eye based in Sydney.  In retro “pulp fiction” style, C S Boag takes the reader on a hectic, dangerous journey, the clues piling up but the solution elusive.  In this fourth book about Rainbow, his daughter, Imogene, has gone missing leaving hints which lead him to Paris via a succession ofContinue reading “The Case of the Bullets at the Ballet by C S Boag”

The Poisoned Island by Lloyd Shepherd

The Poisoned Island is Otaheite, or Tahiti as we know it better, in the year 1769, but the story moves quickly on to the River Thames in 1812 where the ship “Solander” returns from the paradise of Otaheite, with hundreds of plants carefully preserved  by Captain Hopkins for delivery to Sir Joseph Banks, the famousContinue reading “The Poisoned Island by Lloyd Shepherd”