Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie has 4 detectives and 4 possible suspects playing bridge after dinner.

At the end of the evening, Mr Shaitana is discovered murdered. 

Who dunnit?

The victim had bragged to Hercule Poirot that he admired criminals who have evaded justice. Successful ones.

Had he deliberately invited killers to dinner?

If you like Jack Reacher, you’ll like war veteran Peter Ash.

This is the 7th book in the series. The best, I’d say. But the bloodiest.

In this one, Ash is driving through northern Nebraska when he encounters a young pregnant woman alone on a gravel road, her car dead.

Peter offers her a lift, but what begins as an act of kindness soon turns into a deadly cat-and-mouse chase across the lonely highways with the woman’s vicious ex-cop husband hot on their trail.

The pregnant woman has seen something she was never meant to see . . . but protecting her might prove to be more than Peter can handle. …

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Elly Griffiths’ third Harbinder Kaur mystery.

I like Hardbinder. A 38-year-old detective inspector who’s still living with her Sikh parents — and still hasn’t told them she’s a lesbian.

BUT in this book, Hardbinder finally moves out because she has accepted a new position in the Big Smoke, London.

Her first case is a murder at a school reunion: Garfield Rice, an eminent MP.

Sadly, I came away disappointed. I want to know more about Hardbinder — but chapters are told from the point of view of different suspects. Some unreliable. I didn’t care about any of them.

Agatha Christie would have been disappointed in the resolution of the murder mysteries, as well. It really isn’t very brilliant.

Hopefully book #4 will be better.

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