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7 Locomotive Murder Mysteries

I once took a train from Boston to Chicago. Twenty-three hours. Twenty-three hours! I had my own little sleeping compartment, which I had envisioned as opulent and chic and very North by Northwest.  And, for about four hours, the whole thing was fabulous. Cozy, glamorous, speedy and super fun.  My imagination…
Hank Phillippi Ryan
September 22, 2025
Fiction

A “Lover Boy” and Murder Mayhem

There’s the old saying, “Man plans, and God laughs.” As he plans a most unorthodox strategy to attain lifelong financial security, Dr. Joseph Peck, ophthalmologist and narrator in Stephen Kronwith’s sharp, witty and wildly entertaining novel Lover Boy, reflects on hearing some weird sounds in the night, “Now that I…
Jim Alkon
January 15, 2021
FictionThrillers

A Wintry Murder Mystery That Will Give You the Shivers: “The Well of Ice”

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/The-Well-of-Ice-1.jpg “Never open a book with weather,” the late bestselling crime novelist Elmore Leonard sternly advised. But Leonard was wrong. Here’s how Andrea Carter begins her Irish mystery novel, The Well of Ice (Oceanview): “…the fire crackles gently in the grate… “‘It’s snowing,’ he says…” Carter’s richly detailed descriptions of…
Sharon Geltner
November 10, 2020