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purplerabbits at 06:14pm on 03/01/2023
purplerabbits at 06:14pm on 03/01/2023In 2022 I read (at least) 82 books, most of them historical or vintage mysteries or online rational-ish fiction. There may be a few missing, but this is what I had recorded...
- Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London 9, 2022), Ben Aaronovitch
- Jumping Jenny (1933), Anthony Berkeley, published 1933
- The String Glove Mystery (1936), The Porcelain Fish Mystery (1937) and Three Lost Ladies (1949) all Simon Brade mysteries by Harriet R Campbell
- Fire in the Thatch (1946), Murder in Vienna (1956), Death Came Softly (1943), Accident by Design (1950), The Last Escape (1959), Murderer's Mistake (1946) all Robert Macdonald mysteries by ECR Lorac. I do wish they'd get on and release all of them so I can read them in order.
- Touch Not The Nettle (1936) by Molly Clavering, which turned out to be a romance rather than a whodunnit, but still pretty good.
- Found Floating (1937) Freeman Wills Crofts whose writing is so turgid that I skipped vast chunks and was still displeased with the ending.
- Doctor Disappears (1941) and Mask for Murder (1940) mysteries by Max Dalman
- The Ides of April (2013), Enemies at Home (2014), Deadly Election (2015), The Graveyard of the Hesperides (2016), The Third Nero (2017), Pandora's Boy (2018), Capitol Death (2019), The Spook who Spoke Again (2015), A Comedy of Terrors (2021) all Flavia Alba Roman mysteries by Lindsey Davies.
- Medicus (2006), Terra Incognita (2008), Persona Non Grata (2009), Caveat Emptor (2010) all Gaius Petreius Ruso Roman Empire mysteries by Ruth Downie.
- Heirs of the Body (2013), a Daisy Dalrymple mystery by Carola Dunn
- Death of a Bookseller (1956) by Bernard J Farmer - I am loving all these British Library Crime classics
- Seven Clues in Search of a Crime, Bruce Graeme (1941) - another bookseller related one, I found out a lot about Bookshops acting as private libraries from this.
- Commandments Six and Eight (1936), The Punt Murder (1936) by E. Aceituna Griffin - 1936 must have been the peak year for mystery publication.
- The Night Hawks (2021) and The Locked Room (2022) both Dr. Ruth Galloway mysteries and a Brighton mystery called The Vanishing (2017) all by Elly Griffiths
- The Mysterious Mr Badman (1934) by W F Harvey, yes another bookselling related mystery, Amazon clearly like to recommend in themes.
- The Keeper of Lost Things (2017) by Ruth Hogan, a terrible no good very bad book, twee with a nasty dose of very unpleasant classism.
- May Contain Traces of Magic (2009) by Tom Holt - I've kind of gone off these ones and the plot was unnecessarily convoluted especially at the end Innes,
- Stop Press (1939) by Michael Innes - also convoluted by OK
- Comet in Moominland (1946), Finn Family Moomintroll (1948) and The Exploits of Moominpappa (1950) by Tove Jansson - I didn't get the Moomins as a kid so I get to enjoy them now :-)
- Murder After Christmas (1944) by Rupert Latimer
- A Red Rose Chain (2016), Once Broken Faith (2016) and Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day (2022) by Seanan McGuire. I have now run out of October Daye books on Kindle and will have to buy physical copies if I want to finish the series, which is very annoying.
- The Mirror Dance (2021) by Catriona McPherson - one of the few modern period detective writers I keep up with
- Arrest the Bishop? (1949), The Warrielaw Jewel (1933) by Winifred Peck
- Somebody at the Door (1943) by Raymond Postgate - rather too 'experimental' with interminable backstories for every suspect which add little.
- The Tin Tree (1930) by James Quince
- Mr Campion's Farewell 2014, Mr Campion's Fox 2015, Mr Campion's Abdication 2017, Mr Campion's War 2018, Mr Campion's Visit 2019, Mr Campion's Seance 2020, Mr Campion's Coven 2021, Mr Campion's Wings 2022 by Mike Ripley - all modern continuations which don't match up to the original Campion but but be readable given how many I got through.
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (2020) by V. E. Schwab. Pretty good premise and similar to Claire North which I love
- The Quantum Curators and the Missing Codex (2021) by Eva St John
- Escape from Yokai Land (2022) by Charles Stross - just a mini Laundryverse story
- Another Time, Another Place (2021), A Catalogue of Catastrophe (2022) and Santa Grint (2022) by Jodi Taylor - chaotic time travel comedies
- The Draycott Murder Mystery (1928) by Molly Thynne
- This used to be about Dungeons, Books 1 & 2 (ongoing web series) by Alexander Wales,
- Worth the Candle Books 1-8 by Alexander Wales (complete web series, weird ending)
- The Templeton Case (1924) by Victor L Whitechurch
- Midsummer Murder (1937), Murder in Blue (1937) by Clifford Witting
- Mr Campion's Farthing (1969) and Mr Campion's Falcon (1970) by Philip Youngman-Carter