Tag: The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer

• My Top Ten of 2025 (and some honorable mentions)

  Last year, I documented my favorite reads of the year in an essay, My Top Ten of 2024, and it was difficult narrowing my list of 60 books read down to 10 favorites. This year, I had an equally tough time because I had a great reading year with a total of 70 books, and…

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  December 30, 2025

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  A Happy Catastrophe, Atmosphere, book-review, books, Dear Miss Lake, Every Tom Dick and Harry, fiction, literature, Murder on the Marlow Belle, My Friends, novel, reading, The Christie Affair, The Correspondent, The Homemade God, The Impossible Fortune, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris, The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer, The Wedding People, The White Octopus Hotel, This is Not About Us, Through an Open Window, top ten, Virginia Evans, writer, writing

• Book Review: The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer: A Mystery by Ragnar Jónasson

  The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer: A Mystery by Ragnar Jónasson (St. Martin’s Press/Minotaur Books, September 2025) is my first piece of Icelandic literature. I enjoyed it very much…until the very end. To say that the ending is abrupt and unsettling is an understatement. This is the second book I’ve read THIS MONTH…

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  June 27, 2025

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  Agatha Christie, Akureyi, Anthony Berkeley, book-review, books, Death at the Sanotorium, domestic abuse, domestic violence, fiction, Golden Age Mysteries, Iceland, Icelandic literature, Josephine Tey, Minotaur Books, NetGalley, novel, Ragnar Jonasson, reading, Reykjavik, sequel, St. Martin’s Press, The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer, writing