Entertaining.

The murder mystery itself is silly, however.

Co-writers Zackary Grady and Achilles Stamatelaky.

Estranged son, Milan Patel, organizing the Met Gala in NY City finally returns home to small town Montana.

At the arrival party, his father dies mysteriously.

Accident? Murder?

Murder at the Patel Motel is an Audible Original audio play with multiple narrators and sound effects, often described as feeling like an “old style radio play” …

… a lighthearted cozy mystery, “extra cheesy,” and genuinely funny rather than intense or gritty. …

The novelty is starting to wear off for me.

Police Constable Peter Grant; an officer in the Metropolitan Police and the first official apprentice wizard in sixty years.

The dialogue still amusing. But lack of a clear story line in these books is frustrating.

It’s mostly police procedural.

Foxglove Summer (2014) is the 5th novel in the Peter Grant series by English author Ben Aaronovitch.

Peter Grant travels to rural Herefordshire, where the disappearance of two eleven-year old girls is a media sensation, the focus of an intensive police search – and might have grave magical implications as well. …

He finds that unicorns are all too real and that their horns are deadly weapons; that fairies do exist and even in the 21st century they do sometimes kidnap human children and replace them with changelings …

One of my favourite series, I decided to reread most of them from the start.

Better the second time, I found.

Whispers Under Ground (2012) is 3rd in the Rivers of London series.

Our central character is Police Constable and apprentice wizard Peter Grant.

Quite entertaining.

It’s a light read. I mainly enjoy the dry British humour.

The story begins just before Christmas when a reputable American art student, James Gallagher, is found stabbed to death on the tracks at Baker Street Underground station.

Because the murder weapon—a sharp piece of pottery—is heavily saturated with magical traces, the Metropolitan Police’s secret magical department, “The Folly,” is brought in to investigate.

As the son of a wealthy US Senator, the victim’s death threatens an international incident.

Peter has to work alongside a deeply religious FBI Special Agent, Kimberley Reynolds, who has been sent to monitor the case.

The investigation dives deep into London’s complex subterranean geography, taking Peter through:

• Enclaves of an entire hidden, secret society living entirely beneath the city.
• Active and abandoned London Underground tube tunnels.
• Disused Victorian sewer systems and forgotten bomb shelters.
• London’s buried, hidden subterranean rivers.

Excellent.

The Bomb Maker (2018) by Thomas Perry has a really good BAD GUY.

How can he be stopped?

The opening sentence of chapter one draws you straight into the action with its vividly detailed, almost fetishist description of a bomb’s construction.

So enticingly described are the levels of concentration needed not to blow one’s self up, and the obsessive degree of planning needed to cause the maximum amount of damage, that by the end of the chapter, we almost want to see …

Crime Fiction Lover REVIEW

Fullness of Time is an interesting sci-fi novella.

Mixed reviews — but the plot kept me going.

One family has some kind of genetic / medical disorder allowing them to see briefly into the future.

Hiram Granville, a modern Leonardo, secured more than a thousand patents during his lifetime, often just ahead of others who had already been working on the same ideas.

His son, John, an economics genius, never lost a cent in the stock market—or any other financial deal—and was investigated for insider trading on more than one occasion.

Now Cat, a documentarian; her researcher, Mercy; and Cracker Jack, an electronics whiz, are doing a film about the Granville clan.

What they find as they research the family is madness, suicide, a seemingly total seclusion, and a frightening glimpse about what it means to peer into the future.

Laurence Hayward has a $612 million lottery win in Sex, Lies & Serious Money (2016).

After signing on with lawyer Stone Barrington, he spend several million dollars on three cars, two apartments in the same Park Avenue building, and an extensive selection of clothing.

Good fun.

A couple of ex-cons move in trying to grab some of that new found money.

Reads like a remake of Family Jewels (2016) with nary a homicide until very close to the end. Not much sex, no more lies than usual, but some very serious money does indeed get spent on every possible status symbol you can imagine.

Kirkus