Those who enjoy traditional British police procedurals need look no further than veteran Curzon's charming tale featuring Superintendent Mike Yeadings of the Thames Valley Police in a case Continue reading »
DON'T LEAVE ME: A Superintendent Mike Yeadings Mystery
Clare Curzon
When Julie, the young daughter of well-to-do writer Daniel Winterton, suddenly vanishes in this winning police procedural from British veteran Curzon (Cold Continue reading »
Prolific British crime writer Curzon convincingly makes the case for a larger U.S. readership with this well-crafted whodunit, the 10th entry in her series to feature Det. Supt. Mike Yeadings Continue reading »
Last to Leave: A Detective Superintendent Mike Yeadings Mystery
Clare Curzon
At the start of British author Curzon's assured 11th Mike Yeadings police procedural (after 2004's A Meeting of Minds
), antagonistic members of the Continue reading »
The Glass Wall: A Superintendent Mike Yeadings Mystery
Clare Curzon
At the start of Curzon's intelligently contrived 12th Mike Yeadings mystery (after 2005's The Last to Leave
), a Filipino bartender named Ramón Continue reading »
At the outset of Curzon’s entertaining 21st Mike Yeadings mystery (after 2007’s The Edge
), a biker deliberately runs down Warren Laing, Sandy Continue reading »
In less capable hands, Curzon's 22nd Mike Yeadings mystery (after 2008's Payback
), which interweaves three primary narratives and at times several Continue reading »
Devil in the Detail: A Superintendent Mike Yeadings Mystery
Clare Curzon
In this intriguing entry in Curzon's long-running Supt. Mike Yeadings series (Off Track
, etc.), the discovery of a young woman's body hanging upside Continue reading »
When the body of a charming young man from a prominent family is found in a supermarket parking lot, slashed almost beyond recognition, the murder is at first considered the accidental outcome of a Continue reading »
Superintendent Mike Yeadings (Nice People, 1995, etc.) returns with his team to investigate murder in the tidy English village of Mardham. The day after a music student escapes a stalker on her way Continue reading »
Departing from her successful Thames Valley mystery series, Curzon tells with her usual elegance an intriguing tale of two very different women at the turn of the 20th century. Eugenie, Viscountess Continue reading »
The Body of a Woman: A Superintendent Mike Yeadings Mystery
Clare Curzon
British author Clare Curzon delivers another tantalizing puzzler in Body of a Woman: A Superintendent Mike Yeadings Mystery, following Don't Leave Me (Forecasts, Jan. 21, 2002). How did Continue reading »
Steeped in acronyms and conventions familiar mainly to ardent fans of English procedurals, this slow-paced but absorbing tale examines the dichotomy between the old landed gentry and the new Continue reading »
Two missing wives, two deaths and a troubled teen in a southern English town create more than enough work for Superintendent Mike Yeadings in his 10th outing. The first part of this story belongs to Continue reading »
A self-reflective conceit marks Curzon's ninth British police procedural featuring Superintendent Mike Yeadings. The tale, which is peopled by characters who belong, observes constable Rosemary Continue reading »
Dangerous Practice, the finale of the Lucy Sedgwick trilogy (after Guilty Knowledge and The Colour of Blood), finds the impulsive Londoner recently remarried and hot on the trail of another crime Continue reading »
Booker winner Hollinghurst (The Line of Beauty) traces the divisions of post-Brexit London in this elegant tale of two men’s divergent paths across decades. Dave Win, an aging Continue reading »
A movie star and a disgruntled writer engage in an epic war of words in the brash and provocative latest from Despentes (Apocalypse Baby), set during the Covid-19 lockdown in Continue reading »
De Kerangal’s masterful collection (after Eastbound) examines alienation and grief at pivotal moments in her characters’ lives. In “Bivouac,” a translator reminisces about her Continue reading »
Haddon (The Porpoise) draws on Greek mythology and science fiction for a potent collection of stories about human foibles and desires. In “The Mother’s Story,” a woman sticks up Continue reading »