Dust: A Richard Jury Mystery
 Who is Ghosting These Books?: After carefully re-reading all the Jury stories in the past few months, I believe that Grimes is no longer actually writing these mysteries. The last two books barely resemble the previous excellence of the earlier Jury [... more]
$25.95
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Cold Flat Junction (Emma Graham Mysteries (Paperback))
Amazon.com Review: Emma Graham is quizzical and persuasive, imaginative and pragmatic, shy and belligerent. And curious--oh, so curious. The cat hasn't been born that could challenge Emma in that department. I can't let go of a thing--a puzzle, a person, [... more]
$14.00
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Biting the Moon
Amazon.com Review: A teenage girl wakes up alone in a bed and breakfast in Santa Fe with no memory of who she is or how she got there. The innkeeper explains that the man who brought her there said he was her father. But the one thing she knows for sure [... more]
$14.00
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Hotel Paradise
A Kind of Paradise: This book begins a trilogy that surpasses the genre of mysteries. The development of Emma as a young narrator is both real and poignant and humorous--I found I was thinking of her as a real human being, whose brave acceptance of the [... more]
$12.40
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The Winds of Change
JOINING THE PARTY: This recent Inspector Jury novel by Martha Grimes will have readers in two categories, those who know the series already and newcomers to it like myself. I find that I take to the style, and I suppose the best commendation I can offer [... more]
$7.99
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Dust (Richard Jury Mystery)
Who is Ghosting These Books?: After carefully re-reading all the Jury stories in the past few months, I believe that Grimes is no longer actually writing these mysteries. The last two books barely resemble the previous excellence of the earlier Jury [... more]
$13.95
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Dust: A Richard Jury Mystery
Who is Ghosting These Books?: After carefully re-reading all the Jury stories in the past few months, I believe that Grimes is no longer actually writing these mysteries. The last two books barely resemble the previous excellence of the earlier Jury [... more]
$9.99
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Belle Ruin
Belle Trash: If a writer has a contract with the reader...well, you know what I mean...it's not honored in this book which reads more like the writer has a contract on the reader. Like other reviewers, I found little to like about Emma, even though she [... more]
$14.00
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The Blue Last
Amazon.com Review: Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury returns in a compelling novel, the 17th in Grimes's long-running series. Mickey Haggerty, Jury's old friend and colleague, is dying of cancer. So Jury can hardly refuse his request to look into [... more]
$7.99
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The OLD SILENT
Probably one of her best yet: This is the tenth murder mystery featuring Superintendent Richard Jury of Scotland Yard and his wealthy, highborn friend, Melrose Plant. But this time, Jury actually witnesses the murder he subsequently investigates when a [... more]
$16.00
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Help the Poor Struggler
Love, money, and revenge: This is an Onyx 2005 reprint of a 1985 novel. It is a little on the dark side, and a change of pace from the author's early novels in the Jury/Plant series. No side excursions into Long Piddleton, or side issues about flashers. [... more]
$7.99
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The Old Wine Shades: A Richard Jury Mystery (Thorndike ...
my first and last Martha Grimes: A colleague (who reads them in French) recommended Martha Grimes, so out of curiosity I borrowed this from the library. What a disappointment! The characters are English but use American vocabulary (lines, gotten, etc.). [... more]
$13.95
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