The Bangalore Detectives Club by Harini Nagendra (published 2022) is an amusing historic fiction. Set in the spring of 1921, during Britis...

Another mystery series that’s new to me: the detective Vera Stanhope novels by Ann Cleeves. In Hidden Depths , I found the most fun feature ...

As we travel, I sometimes have time to read, as long as I pick an easy book. It's nice that my Kindle app means I don't have to carr...

Sujata Massey's series about Japan keeps tempting me to read one more. The latest is  The Samurai's Daughter.  Like her other novels...

Sujata Massey has written mystery novels set in many places. Her amateur detective Rei Shimura is an American who lives in Tokyo where she h...

"After all, much of what was being said was lies, or at least evasions and interpretations. The business of the law was not the discove...

India is an unknown territory: I have never been there, and have read only a few books about the country. Thus, I enjoyed the first of Sujat...

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Recently, I've been reading sequels from a variety of mystery authors. Writing a full review post of every sequel seems a bit redundant,...

Do you miss your American food? How about a hotto doggu ?”  "'No thanks, I don’t eat meat,' I said, unwrapping the swee...

The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey (published 2018) contains a murder mystery, but the major part of the book is more of a social...