#detectivefiction — Public Fediverse posts

Experience the suspense of The Gordian Knot by David O. Thomas. A gripping crime thriller full of twists, mystery, and edge-of-your-seat intrigue.

Read more: https://www.davidthomasthegordianknot.com/

#TheGordianKnot #DavidOThomas #CrimeThriller #MysteryNovel #Suspense #DetectiveFiction #ThrillerReads #PageTurner

"This story is like a train ride, starts off with a sure pace, picking up speed, then some twists and turns to keep you guessing and wondering what happens next, all ending in a shocking display of what humans can be capable of." - Jon Gregory, author.

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#DanielBeckett #PrivateInvestigator #MustRead #Standalone #London #DetectiveFiction #BookBoost #CrimeFiction

Book mood! Catnip for those who enjoy #DarkAcademia, #CampusMystery, and #DetectiveFiction #novels, especially the delicious vintage stories: Academe in Mystery and Detective Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography by John E. Kramer (2000) and College Mystery Novels: An Annotated Bibliography, Including a Guide to Professorial Series-Character Sleuths by John E. Kramer, Jr. and John E. Kramer, III (1983). #Mystery #Bookstodon

Book mood! Catnip for those who enjoy #DarkAcademia, #CampusMystery, and #DetectiveFiction #novels, especially the delicious vintage stories: Academe in Mystery and Detective Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography by John E. Kramer (2000) and College Mystery Novels: An Annotated Bibliography, Including a Guide to Professorial Series-Character Sleuths by John E. Kramer, Jr. and John E. Kramer, III (1983). #Mystery #Bookstodon

Book mood! Catnip for those who enjoy #DarkAcademia, #CampusMystery, and #DetectiveFiction #novels, especially the delicious vintage stories: Academe in Mystery and Detective Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography by John E. Kramer (2000) and College Mystery Novels: An Annotated Bibliography, Including a Guide to Professorial Series-Character Sleuths by John E. Kramer, Jr. and John E. Kramer, III (1983). #Mystery #Bookstodon

Book mood! Catnip for those who enjoy #DarkAcademia, #CampusMystery, and #DetectiveFiction #novels, especially the delicious vintage stories: Academe in Mystery and Detective Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography by John E. Kramer (2000) and College Mystery Novels: An Annotated Bibliography, Including a Guide to Professorial Series-Character Sleuths by John E. Kramer, Jr. and John E. Kramer, III (1983). #Mystery #Bookstodon

Book mood! Catnip for those who enjoy #DarkAcademia, #CampusMystery, and #DetectiveFiction #novels, especially the delicious vintage stories: Academe in Mystery and Detective Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography by John E. Kramer (2000) and College Mystery Novels: An Annotated Bibliography, Including a Guide to Professorial Series-Character Sleuths by John E. Kramer, Jr. and John E. Kramer, III (1983). #Mystery #Bookstodon

New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2026/01/26/all-time-xis-detective-fiction/
An all time XI of players who have namesakes in detective fiction and a photo gallery.
#cricket #DetectiveFiction #AllTimeXIs #photography #birds #cormorants #heron #starlings #lapwings #sparrows #mammals #squirrels #muntjac #hare #fungi

New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2026/01/26/all-time-xis-detective-fiction/
An all time XI of players who have namesakes in detective fiction and a photo gallery.
#cricket #DetectiveFiction #AllTimeXIs #photography #birds #cormorants #heron #starlings #lapwings #sparrows #mammals #squirrels #muntjac #hare #fungi

New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2026/01/26/all-time-xis-detective-fiction/
An all time XI of players who have namesakes in detective fiction and a photo gallery.
#cricket #DetectiveFiction #AllTimeXIs #photography #birds #cormorants #heron #starlings #lapwings #sparrows #mammals #squirrels #muntjac #hare #fungi

New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2026/01/26/all-time-xis-detective-fiction/
An all time XI of players who have namesakes in detective fiction and a photo gallery.
#cricket #DetectiveFiction #AllTimeXIs #photography #birds #cormorants #heron #starlings #lapwings #sparrows #mammals #squirrels #muntjac #hare #fungi

New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2026/01/26/all-time-xis-detective-fiction/
An all time XI of players who have namesakes in detective fiction and a photo gallery.
#cricket #DetectiveFiction #AllTimeXIs #photography #birds #cormorants #heron #starlings #lapwings #sparrows #mammals #squirrels #muntjac #hare #fungi

Explore Jeanne Riedel Books — home of Murder Most Deadly, thrilling mysteries full of twists, secrets and unforgettable characters. Read more: https://www.jeanneriedelbooks.com/ #JeanneRiedel

#MysteryBooks #ThrillerReads #Suspense #MustRead #DetectiveFiction

The Butterfly Girl by Rene Denfeld

”That was the thing about the butterflies. They could be kind when Celia felt bitter. They could encompass all the beauty of this world even when the skies smarted gray”

Rene Denfeld, “The Butterfly Girl”

I was only a few paragraphs into the first chapter when I knew, without question, that I had discovered an extraordinary book. Rene Denfeld’s “The Butterfly Girl” could only have been written by someone who had experienced what her characters endured, the profound sense of the loneliness, the fear, and the delicate hope that keeps her character’s alive. “The Butterfly Girl” is not just a story. It is a revelation of what happens when imagination becomes a means of survival.

At the heart of the novel is Naomi, a private investigator with a haunted past who is searching for her missing sister. Her path crosses with Celia, a twelve-year-old runaway living on the streets of Portland, Oregon. Through these two intertwined stories, Rene Denfeld explores what it means to be lost and what it means to be found. She allows readers to feel the restlessness of those who search. Naomi for her sister and Celia for safety. Beneath the surface of the mystery, there is a deeper story about endurance. How stories, even imagined ones, keep us alive when the world feels too hard to face. The novel moves between danger and tenderness, grief and renewal, with a quiet current of hope running beneath the darkness.

The butterflies of the title are more than a symbol; they are a saving grace. They represent transformation and the capacity to change, to lift out of darkness, to find beauty in the midst of struggle. Their wings carry both vulnerability and strength.

What impressed me most about “The Butterfly Girl” was Rene Denfeld’s ability to enter the mind of a child, not through sentimentality, but through truth. She understands that imagination is not a retreat from reality but a way of surviving it. She does not romanticize the children’s lives, yet she never strips them of dignity. Her gaze is steady, respectful, and filled with compassion, her words come from a place that only lived empathy can bring. She enters the mind of a child not to dramatize pain, but to show how imagination, that fragile, shimmering thread, can hold life together when everything else falls away.

The contrast between the “street people” and the “day people” was a brilliant way to describe the gulf between children on the street and people who move through their routines, caring about the world but often unable to look directly at its deepest suffering. It is difficult to face issues of homelessness, addiction, lost childhoods, especially when there does not appear to be way to help.

“no matter how hard she tried, she could remember nothing more of her past. Terror had wiped her memory clean.”

René Denfeld, “The Butterfly Girl”

Rene Denfeld is an American author and investigator who has worked extensively with victims of trauma, including survivors of violence and those on death row. She has also served as a therapeutic foster mother. Her life’s work, which transforms her own hardships into compassion for others, gives her fiction its unmistakable authenticity. She has an ability to make these children visible, not as symbols, but as individuals with dreams, humour, and astonishing courage. They form their own communities, caring for one another when the world does not.

“The Butterfly Girl” is not an easy book to read, but it is an essential one. It reminds us that seeing is an act of love, and that the imagination is humanity’s greatest refuge. Reading “The Butterfly Girl” reminded me that awareness is not enough. Compassion must begin with respect. And respect begins with truly seeing.

Until the next page turns, may your days be filled with warmth, wonder, and a good story to share.

Rebecca

Postscript: Rene Denfeld is the award-winning, bestselling author of four novels: “The Enchanted” (2014), “The Child Finder” (2017), “The Butterfly Girl” (2019), and “Sleeping Giants” (2024). Her writing has been praised by Margaret Atwood as “astonishing.”

Her forthcoming literary thriller, “The Talking Bone”, will be published in July 2026 by HarperCollins. Inspired by her own justice work as a death row investigator, it promises to continue her exploration of trauma, truth, and redemption.

#DetectiveFiction #fiction #FictionSalon #IMReadingABook #ReneDenfeld #TheButterflyGirl #Trauma

Jaclyn Lurker wraps up the Year of Sherlock with "The Last Bow" - a final exploration of why mysteries appeal across seasons. From Christmas cozies to year-round whodunits, this post summarizes all twelve months of literary detective deep-dives and includes bonus content: an original short mystery comedy starring amateur detective Spurlock Tomes.
#SherlockHolmes #MysteryLiterature #DetectiveFiction #LiteraryHistory #ConanDoyle #ClassicMysteries
https://jaclynalurker.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-year-of-sherlock-years-end-2025.html

New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2026/01/18/the-museum-detectives/
A brief look at a classic series of novels by Jim Eldridge and a photo gallery.
#books #fiction #DetectiveFiction #TheMuseumDetectives #Museums #London #Railways #LondonUnderground #photography #birds #starlings #cormorants #lapwings #coins #CharlesIII£1

New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2026/01/18/the-museum-detectives/
A brief look at a classic series of novels by Jim Eldridge and a photo gallery.
#books #fiction #DetectiveFiction #TheMuseumDetectives #Museums #London #Railways #LondonUnderground #photography #birds #starlings #cormorants #lapwings #coins #CharlesIII£1

New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2026/01/18/the-museum-detectives/
A brief look at a classic series of novels by Jim Eldridge and a photo gallery.
#books #fiction #DetectiveFiction #TheMuseumDetectives #Museums #London #Railways #LondonUnderground #photography #birds #starlings #cormorants #lapwings #coins #CharlesIII£1

New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2026/01/18/the-museum-detectives/
A brief look at a classic series of novels by Jim Eldridge and a photo gallery.
#books #fiction #DetectiveFiction #TheMuseumDetectives #Museums #London #Railways #LondonUnderground #photography #birds #starlings #cormorants #lapwings #coins #CharlesIII£1

New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2026/01/18/the-museum-detectives/
A brief look at a classic series of novels by Jim Eldridge and a photo gallery.
#books #fiction #DetectiveFiction #TheMuseumDetectives #Museums #London #Railways #LondonUnderground #photography #birds #starlings #cormorants #lapwings #coins #CharlesIII£1

Non-fiction November: choosing non-fiction

I just found out about #NonFictionNovember through Liz Dexter from Libro Full Time, hosted by Frances Spurrier at Volatile Rune. Each week has a theme to encourage you to read more non-fiction and this one is “choosing non-fiction”.

I realised that when I choose non-fiction to read (that is not for work), I usually tied it up to my fiction favourite readings. The picture above is a good example of this:

• Books about books, libraries, booksellers, and the history of the book and reading;
• Books about specific books or characters. Besides Aldridge’s Marple and Poirot, I could add Osborne’s The Life and Times of Agatha Christie, Poirot and Marple biographies of Anne Hart, companions, etc.;
• Books about genres or subgenres, either as history or as a collection of essays. To Murder for Pleasure and The Golden Age of Murder, I could add HowDunnit, essays by The Detection Club members, Bloody Murder by Julian Symons, The Life of Crime by Martin Edwards, and others;
• Autobiographies and biographies, to which I could add other authors like Austen, the Brontes, and Trollope;
• More recently, I’ve been adding nature writing books to my TBR, of which The Wild Isles is a good example (it’s an anthology), but I could also add Angela Harding’s A Year Unfolding or A Nature Diary by Richard Adams.

This November, I’m reading Murder Will Out by T. J. Binyon. The book goes through several detectives, dividing its chapters through the different types of detectives: the professional amateur, the amateur amateur, the police, etc.. Binyon describes the differences between these characters when they belong to the same category and talks about the books and their creators so one can get an historical perspective or even see the evolution of the detective.

Now, back to you, do you read non-fiction by choice? And do you choose it?

#books #BooksAboutBooks #ClassicMystery #CrimeFiction #DetectiveFiction #livros #NatureWriting #NonFictionNovember #NonFictionNovember #readings

October's Moonstone Musings explores the fascinating connections between Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. Jaclyn Lurker traces the detective fiction lineage from the 1868 novel often considered the first full-length English detective novel through to today's adaptations. A thoughtful analysis for mystery lovers and literary enthusiasts.
#SherlockHolmes #MysteryNovels #LiteraryHistory #DetectiveFiction #WilkieCollins
https://jaclynalurker.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-year-of-sherlock-october-2025.html

🎥 💡 Streaming LIVE! Watch @hatnix on Owncast: https://live.hatnix.net/

#ArseneLupin #OnceAThief #MauriceLeBlanc #ThievingFiction #DetectiveFiction #owncast #livestream #stream #selfhosted

Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin in Jaclyn Lurker's ongoing "Year of Sherlock" series. This "Poe Reprise" explores how Dupin's methodical approach in just three stories created the entire consulting detective archetype. From locked room mysteries to armchair detection, Poe established conventions that Doyle would later perfect with Holmes.
#EdgarAllanPoe #SherlockHolmes #DetectiveFiction #LiteraryAnalysis #Mystery #ClassicLiterature #BookLovers https://jaclynalurker.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-year-of-sherlock-august-2025-poe.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawMhfnVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFnOUd6VDNIdXNSOFpXMnVlAR7mJiUntKe4T6CZ77ufsoxfWvPvF2yOMdhicYwqrQVVLPZ5NdrIHGQVf8xQBQ_aem_IEj_BfoNRBXH6ERWLI9d_A

World Book Club: Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of the Baskervilles

Available on BBC Sounds. Harriett Gilbert is joined by internationally bestselling crime writer Denise Mina & Dr Mark Jones, co-presenter of The Doings of Doyle podcast & editor of The Sherlock Holmes Journal, to discuss Sherlock Holmes’s lasting influence on crime & detective fiction.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct74s3

#Scottish #literature #CrimeFiction #detective #DetectiveFiction #SherlockHolmes #ConanDoyle

Bonne journée les mammouth•e•s 🍀
(chacun son film 🎬😄)
#Detectivefiction
#FauneLocale

"Though this be madness, yet there's method in it." Jaclyn Lurker brilliantly explores how Shakespeare's words about Hamlet perfectly describe Sherlock Holmes centuries later. Fascinating parallels between detective work and apparent madness in classic literature.
#SherlockHolmes #Hamlet #ClassicLiterature #DetectiveFiction #LiteraryAnalysis #Shakespeare #BookLovers
https://jaclynalurker.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-year-of-sherlock-2025-july-method.html?m=1&fbclid=IwY2xjawL5CcFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHtwUGkRlq7vJB2UOE2ceTnkTjH0U7y4_GyXGWqw3_KhgeJerWUVVaZuVfsaF_aem_lrja8Ttl5nufD5TzleECWg

This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we review MINKY WOODCOCK: THE GIRL CALLED CTHULHU (2025) by Cynthia von Buhler.

https://deepcuts.blog/2025/07/26/minky-woodcock-the-girl-called-cthulhu-2025-by-cynthia-von-buhler/

#detectivefiction #graphicnovel #comic #Lovecraft #AleisterCrowley #weirdfiction

Because 18 Lew Archer novels isn’t enough, I just bought “the complete short stories…”

My buddy, writer MS Harker, and are reading all the Lew Archer books this summer.

ps. Watch for Harker’s *Don’t Shoot the Piano Tuner* (forthcoming, watch for it at http://dontshootthepianotuner.com )

#detectivefiction #readersofmastodon #booksofmadtodon #fiction #noir #lewarcher #rossmacdonald #summerreading

Because 18 Lew Archer novels isn’t enough, I just bought “the complete short stories…”

My buddy, writer MS Harker, and are reading all the Lew Archer books this summer.

ps. Watch for Harker’s *Don’t Shoot the Piano Tuner* (forthcoming, watch for it at http://dontshootthepianotuner.com )

#detectivefiction #readersofmastodon #booksofmadtodon #fiction #noir #lewarcher #rossmacdonald #summerreading

Because 18 Lew Archer novels isn’t enough, I just bought “the complete short stories…”

My buddy, writer MS Harker, and are reading all the Lew Archer books this summer.

ps. Watch for Harker’s *Don’t Shoot the Piano Tuner* (forthcoming, watch for it at http://dontshootthepianotuner.com )

#detectivefiction #readersofmastodon #booksofmadtodon #fiction #noir #lewarcher #rossmacdonald #summerreading

Because 18 Lew Archer novels isn’t enough, I just bought “the complete short stories…”

My buddy, writer MS Harker, and are reading all the Lew Archer books this summer.

ps. Watch for Harker’s *Don’t Shoot the Piano Tuner* (forthcoming, watch for it at http://dontshootthepianotuner.com )

#detectivefiction #readersofmastodon #booksofmadtodon #fiction #noir #lewarcher #rossmacdonald #summerreading

Because 18 Lew Archer novels isn’t enough, I just bought “the complete short stories…”

My buddy, writer MS Harker, and are reading all the Lew Archer books this summer.

ps. Watch for Harker’s *Don’t Shoot the Piano Tuner* (forthcoming, watch for it at http://dontshootthepianotuner.com )

#detectivefiction #readersofmastodon #booksofmadtodon #fiction #noir #lewarcher #rossmacdonald #summerreading

#BookReview The Piazza Murders by Michael Jecks (out 1st July)

The third instalment of The Art of Murder is out on 1st of July and takes you to Italy.

Nick Morris is an artist and amateur sleuth. This time he goes to Italy to teach a course to a group of people that decided to take the art retreat. Of course, there are murders, which Morris starts to investigate. At the same time there is a literary festival in the city with authors and publicists getting involved, meaning that you get themes about books, publishers, and publishing industry, which I never say no to 🙂 (you also get themes about pens, drawing, painting, as expected :-)).

Each of the people in the art group is different and has their own story, specific situation, reasons for being there, and I liked the way we get to know them throughout the first part.

I found the descriptions of the place and Italian atmosphere (monuments, buildings, cafes, streets) stunning. I was quite impressed how easy it was to imerse myself into the place, and in this sense it was perfect for an “escapism reading” which I love.

It was a quick read, I wanted to know what would happen next and there are several twists and turns, including one of my favorites: when a character views a certain situation in a certain angle and we, the readers, start to suspect it is exactly the opposite and makes us want to warn/tell that character. I always find this type of scene quite satisfying in a book, maybe because it’s a time when we know a little more than the characters? I didn’t guess the murderer, though, which is good. Although, now that I think of it, the author gives you a hint in the beginning, but skillfully turns you away from it 🙂

Albeit in a series, I think the book reads as a standalone. It also made me want to read the first two, it seeems the second in the series has a manor house in the English countryside, which is one of my favorite settings for murder.

Michael Jecks is a member of The Detection Club and you can check his website for info on his other books here, he also has a YouTube channel, where he talks about his books, but also about all forms of stationery, and which I really recommend following.

The Piazza Murders is published by Severn House and it will be out on 1st of July.

(I got an ARC from NetGalley).

#BookReview #BookReviews #BookLook #books #CrimeFiction #DetectiveFiction #fiction #ItalianSetting #Italy #MichaelJecks #Mystery #NewBook #readings #TheArtOfMurder

Before Sherlock Holmes, there was C. Auguste Dupin. Poe's detective appeared in only three stories but established the template for all consulting detectives since.

Jaclyn Lurker examines Poe's "ratiocination" vs "rationalization" - one seeks truth through methodical reasoning, the other twists logic to justify crimes. A fascinating look at the foundations of mystery fiction.
#Literature #EdgarAllanPoe #Mystery #DetectiveFiction #LiteraryHistory
https://jaclynalurker.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-art-of-2025-may-poes-ratiocination.html

Happy #SherlockHolmesDay & birthday to #Edinburgh scribe Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, still commemorated with a statue of the great detective close to his family home here our #UNESCO City of Literature, & a nearby pub named after him (the greatest honour a Scotsman can hold!)

Also, Jeremy Brett remains the finest screen incarnation of Holmes. I will brook no arguments on this point!

#Edimbourg #books #livres #SirArthurConanDoyle #JeremyBrett #SherlockHolmes #DetectiveFiction

Happy #SherlockHolmesDay & birthday to #Edinburgh scribe Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, still commemorated with a statue of the great detective close to his family home here our #UNESCO City of Literature, & a nearby pub named after him (the greatest honour a Scotsman can hold!)

Also, Jeremy Brett remains the finest screen incarnation of Holmes. I will brook no arguments on this point!

#Edimbourg #books #livres #SirArthurConanDoyle #JeremyBrett #SherlockHolmes #DetectiveFiction

Happy #SherlockHolmesDay & birthday to #Edinburgh scribe Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, still commemorated with a statue of the great detective close to his family home here our #UNESCO City of Literature, & a nearby pub named after him (the greatest honour a Scotsman can hold!)

Also, Jeremy Brett remains the finest screen incarnation of Holmes. I will brook no arguments on this point!

#Edimbourg #books #livres #SirArthurConanDoyle #JeremyBrett #SherlockHolmes #DetectiveFiction

Happy #SherlockHolmesDay & birthday to #Edinburgh scribe Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, still commemorated with a statue of the great detective close to his family home here our #UNESCO City of Literature, & a nearby pub named after him (the greatest honour a Scotsman can hold!)

Also, Jeremy Brett remains the finest screen incarnation of Holmes. I will brook no arguments on this point!

#Edimbourg #books #livres #SirArthurConanDoyle #JeremyBrett #SherlockHolmes #DetectiveFiction

Happy #SherlockHolmesDay & birthday to #Edinburgh scribe Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, still commemorated with a statue of the great detective close to his family home here our #UNESCO City of Literature, & a nearby pub named after him (the greatest honour a Scotsman can hold!)

Also, Jeremy Brett remains the finest screen incarnation of Holmes. I will brook no arguments on this point!

#Edimbourg #books #livres #SirArthurConanDoyle #JeremyBrett #SherlockHolmes #DetectiveFiction

“…rather than a locked-room mystery in which the murder is an impossible crime, the detective is in (and becomes) the locked room, using cerebral means to reason his way into a solution to a genuine historical conundrum”

“A Mystery Novel Like No Other Before” – @sarahweinman on the fiction of Josephine Tey

@bookstodon

https://lithub.com/a-mystery-novel-like-no-other-before-on-josephine-teys-the-daughter-of-time/

#Scottish #literature #CrimeFiction #DetectiveFiction #Crimewriting #Womenwriters #20thCentury

Husband Missing (Detective Josie Quinn #22), by Lisa Regan
#Book #Crime #Meh #Mystery #Review #LisaRegan #JosieQuinnSeries #HusbandMissing #CrimeNovel #DetectiveFiction #Thriller #BookLovers #BookClub #MysteryBooks #Suspense
https://turing.mailstation.de/husband-missing-detective-josie-quinn-22-by-lisa-regan/?fsp_sid=829

It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: Books you can read & download for free right now – The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke

R. Austin Freeman was a member of The Detection Club and he is known for the invention of the inverted mystery, where the reader gets from the beginning the description of the crime and/or the perpetrator, but still wants to read the story to know how or why it was done.

I’m suggesting The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke, a collection of short stories with a preface where Freeman explains how he came to write this type of mystery. Dr. Thorndyke, Freeman’s detective, is a medical doctor, like its creator, turned forensic scientist, so if you like mysteries with scientific know-how, this is also a good choice.

So, this weekend give yourself some “me time” with no worries, nor rushes, get a cup of tea (or coffee, by all means) and curl up with these (kind of different) mystery stories, because you really deserve it.

You can download the book at Project Gutenberg, there are several formats you can choose to read on your mobile, computer, ereader, you can even read the book on your browser.

(I may be making this “It’s Weekend, Let’s Read” a kind of habit, let me know in the comments if it’s something you’re finding interesting).

#books #CrimeFiction #DetectiveFiction #InvertedMystery #publicDomain #RAustinFreeman #readings #TheDetectionClub

It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: Books you can read & download for free right now – The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke

R. Austin Freeman was a member of The Detection Club and he is known for the invention of the inverted mystery, where the reader gets from the beginning the description of the crime and/or the perpetrator, but still wants to read the story to know how or why it was done.

I’m suggesting The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke, a collection of short stories with a preface where Freeman explains how he came to write this type of mystery. Dr. Thorndyke, Freeman’s detective, is a medical doctor, like its creator, turned forensic scientist, so if you like mysteries with scientific know-how, this is also a good choice.

So, this weekend give yourself some “me time” with no worries, nor rushes, get a cup of tea (or coffee, by all means) and curl up with these (kind of different) mystery stories, because you really deserve it.

You can download the book at Project Gutenberg, there are several formats you can choose to read on your mobile, computer, ereader, you can even read the book on your browser.

(I may be making this “It’s Weekend, Let’s Read” a kind of habit, let me know in the comments if it’s something you’re finding interesting).

#books #CrimeFiction #DetectiveFiction #InvertedMystery #publicDomain #RAustinFreeman #readings #TheDetectionClub

It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: Books you can read & download for free right now – The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke

R. Austin Freeman was a member of The Detection Club and he is known for the invention of the inverted mystery, where the reader gets from the beginning the description of the crime and/or the perpetrator, but still wants to read the story to know how or why it was done.

I’m suggesting The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke, a collection of short stories with a preface where Freeman explains how he came to write this type of mystery. Dr. Thorndyke, Freeman’s detective, is a medical doctor, like its creator, turned forensic scientist, so if you like mysteries with scientific know-how, this is also a good choice.

So, this weekend give yourself some “me time” with no worries, nor rushes, get a cup of tea (or coffee, by all means) and curl up with these (kind of different) mystery stories, because you really deserve it.

You can download the book at Project Gutenberg, there are several formats you can choose to read on your mobile, computer, ereader, you can even read the book on your browser.

(I may be making this “It’s Weekend, Let’s Read” a kind of habit, let me know in the comments if it’s something you’re finding interesting).

#books #CrimeFiction #DetectiveFiction #InvertedMystery #publicDomain #RAustinFreeman #readings #TheDetectionClub

It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: Books you can read & download for free right now – The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke

R. Austin Freeman was a member of The Detection Club and he is known for the invention of the inverted mystery, where the reader gets from the beginning the description of the crime and/or the perpetrator, but still wants to read the story to know how or why it was done.

I’m suggesting The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke, a collection of short stories with a preface where Freeman explains how he came to write this type of mystery. Dr. Thorndyke, Freeman’s detective, is a medical doctor, like its creator, turned forensic scientist, so if you like mysteries with scientific know-how, this is also a good choice.

So, this weekend give yourself some “me time” with no worries, nor rushes, get a cup of tea (or coffee, by all means) and curl up with these (kind of different) mystery stories, because you really deserve it.

You can download the book at Project Gutenberg, there are several formats you can choose to read on your mobile, computer, ereader, you can even read the book on your browser.

(I may be making this “It’s Weekend, Let’s Read” a kind of habit, let me know in the comments if it’s something you’re finding interesting).

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Detective & Crime Fiction Books you can read right now – The Innocence of Father Brown

The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton. Download at Project Gutenberg (you can choose different formats).

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Tartan Noir, or, Hard-Boiled Heidegger

Prof Matthew Wickman investigates the philosophical underpinnings of “Tartan Noir” – with specific reference to William McIlvanney’s LAIDLAW novels

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/tartan_noir/

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“We have attempted to tell the story of Scottish crime fiction in eleven books. We tried to do it in ten but could not get lower than eleven.”

—A little Scottish crime fiction bookshelf, or the story of Tartan Noir in 11 books, from the National Library of Scotland blog

https://blog.nls.uk/a-little-scottish-crime-fiction-bookshelf-or-the-story-of-tartan-noir-in-11-books/

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Five Fictional Investigators With Special Abilities

These sleuths bring a little something extra to the table... The post Five Fictional Investigators With Special Abilities appeared first on Reactor .
https://reactormag.com/five-fictional-investigators-with-special-abilities/

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