Books High and Low

In  Peril at End House , Hercule Poirot and his friend Captain Hastings try to prevent the murder of a young woman, Nick Buckley, who has re...

  I really enjoyed this novel about a young woman, Adina, who believes that she is an alien sent to earth to gather information about humans...

  The Sittaford Mystery  is a standalone story that doesn't include any of Agatha Christie's usual detectives. After a  séance in wh...

  I enjoyed this novel set in 1995 Jordan about a 30-something woman traveling with her father to visit his family in Amman, Jordan. Amani i...

Inspector Wexford and his partner are drawn into the investigation of a potential kidnapping of two teenagers and their babysitter. Initiall...

This is Agatha Christie's tenth mystery and first one featuring Miss Marple. Colonel Protheroe was shot dead in the vicar's office, ...

  I picked up this book to read a few days before the recent hostilities between Israel, Iran, and the U.S., but it's a stark reminder o...

  This is a slight but charming book about a cafe in Japan where customers can travel though time. There are a lot of rules about time trave...

This is a substantial (750 page) deep dive into the Vietnam War with a heavy focus on the politics surrounding most of the major U.S. decisi...

  After an airplane crashes into an apartment building in Los Angeles, one of the supposed passengers is missing, but in the wreckage of the...

  Like many of Ruth Rendell's books, this one is filled with zany characters who make incredibly poor decisions. The St. Zita Society is...

  I really enjoyed this suspenseful thriller about a man who's trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter. Frank is a middle class ...

The Seven Dials mystery is Agatha Christie's ninth novel and second starring Superintendent Battle. Like The Secret of Chimneys , althou...

I really enjoyed this thriller by Frederick Forsyth, an author I had read more regularly back in the 1990s. I had enjoyed his work such as T...

I really enjoyed this detective story by Ian Rankin, the very popular author of the Inspector Rebus novels, set in Edinburgh, Scotland. The ...

  I've been following Salman Rushdie's story ever since he made the news with the publication of The Satanic Verses in 1988. Its pu...