Books by C. S. Challinor and Complete Book Reviews
C. S. Challinor, Author . Midnight Ink $14.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7387-1890-3
In Challinor’s thin third mystery to feature Scottish barrister Rex Graves (after 2009’s Murder in the Raw
), Rex’s visit to his son, Campbell, a sophomore at Hilliard University in Jacksonville, Fla., takes a deadly turn. Dixon...
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C.S. Challinor, Midnight Ink (www.midnightinkbooks.com), $14.95 trade paper (216p) ISBN 978-0-7387-1981-8
At the start of Challinor's rushed fourth Rex Graves puzzler (after 2010's Phi Beta Murder), Scottish barrister Rex and his girlfriend, Helen D'Arcy, are preparing for a party at Gleneagle Lodge, Rex's Victorian estate on Loch Lochy, home to a...
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C.S. Challinor. Midnight Ink (www.midnightinkbooks.com), $14.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-0-7387-2335-8
Challinor’s disappointing fifth Rex Graves mystery (after 2011’s Murder on the Moor) takes the Scottish barrister and his fiancée, Helen d’Arcy, to Aston-on-Trent in Derbyshire, for the wedding of Timmy Thorpe and the pregnant Polly Newcombe, Helen’s
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C.S. Challinor. Midnight Ink (midnightinkbooks.com), $14.99 trade paper (216p) ISBN 978-0-7387-3976-2
Challinor’s tedious sixth Rex Graves mystery (after 2012’s Murder of the Bride) finds the Scottish barrister celebrating New Year’s (“Hogmanay” in Scottish parlance) at his Highlands retreat. The 13 guests—an unlucky number, as one of them is quick...
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C.S. Challinor. Midnight Ink (midnightinkbooks.com), $14.99 trade paper (216p) ISBN 978-0-7387-4548-0
In Challinor’s satisfying eighth Rex Graves mystery (after 2014’s Murder at Midnight), the Scottish barrister travels to quiet Notting Hamlet, Bedfordshire, at the request his widowed friend, Malcolm Patterson, a bumbling retired medical pathologist
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C.S. Challinor. Midnight Ink, $14.99 ISBN 978-0-7387-5009-5
In Challinor’s intriguing 10th mystery featuring Rex Graves of Scotland’s supreme criminal court (after 2015’s Murder Comes Calling), Rex learns of the passing of his old mentor, former judge Lord Murgatroyd (aka Judge Murder), and phones Murgatroyd’
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C.S. Challinor. Midnight Ink, $15.99 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-0-7387-5647-9
Challinor’s enjoyable if flawed 11th Rex Graves mystery (after 2016’s Judgment of Murder) finds Scottish barrister Rex and his bride, Helen, attending the opening night of a murder mystery play written by a friend of Helen’s, Peril at Pinegrove Hall,
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