Martha Grimes, Author Alfred A. Knopf $23 (383p) ISBN 978-0-679-44188-5
Set only a few weeks after the end of The Horse You Came In On, the newest case for Scotland Yard Chief Superintendent Richard Jury wings him back to the U.S. Jury is initially inclined to dismiss the similarities among three sudden deaths: those of
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Martha Grimes, Author Ballantine Books $7.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-345-39426-2
Another case for Scotland Yard's Richard Jury, in which the superintendent travels to New Mexico in search of the connection between three similar murders. (July)
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Martha Grimes, Author Dell Publishing Company $6.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-440-20492-3
``In Inspector Richard Jury's 10th appearance, the rewards of Grimes's skewering eye for characterization more than make up for the few occasions when the complicated plot gets out of hand.'' Jury, perversely winter-vacationing in Yorkshire,...
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Martha Grimes, Author Knopf Publishing Group $24 (368p) ISBN 978-0-679-44187-8
Grimes's mystery-spinning skills take a backseat to character development and human relationships in her second, quite appealing ""literary'' novel (after The End of the Pier). She etches an enchanting portrait of spunky Emma Graham, the 12-year-old
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Martha Grimes, Author Henry Holt & Company $24 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5620-4
Grimes is dazzling in this deftly plotted, 13th Richard Jury mystery (the last was Rainbow's End, 1995). Psychologically complex and muted in tone, with the characters' elliptical relationships reflecting the setting of England's dreamlike fen...
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Martha Grimes, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (301p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5621-1
Engaging adolescent Mary Dark Hope, who appeared in Rainbow's End, returns in this uneven thriller/animal-rights polemic. After Mary befriends Andi, a teenage amnesiac who releases trapped animals in New Mexico's Sandia Mountains, the two girls head
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Martha Grimes, Author Little Brown and Company $15.95 (236p) ISBN 978-0-316-32886-9
This is the seventh crime novel by Grimes, an American who writes wih assurance on the exploits of Scotland Yard's Richard Jury and his titled friend Malcolm Plant. They meet at The Deer Leap, a pub in Ashdown Dean where people and pets have been...
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Martha Grimes, Author Little Brown and Company $0 (425p) ISBN 978-0-316-32318-5
In Inspector Richard Jury's 10th appearance, the rewards of Grimes's skewering eye for characterization more than make up for the few occasions when the complicated plot gets out of hand. Suffering from a melancholy that he worries might presage a...
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Martha Grimes, Author Knopf Publishing Group $21 (331p) ISBN 978-0-679-42523-6
In her latest Richard Jury novel (after The Old Contemptibles ), Grimes sends her Scotland Yard superintendent to the States to investigate a murder but assigns most of the sleuthing to his pal Melrose Plant. Jury and Inspector Wiggins take a busman'
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Martha Grimes, Author . Viking $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-670-03045-3
In the 18th entry in this popular series (after 2001's The Blue Last), Grimes serves up a convoluted hodgepodge of rape, kidnapping and murder, then throws in corporate greed, animal rights issues and assorted satires of modern British society....
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Martha Grimes, Author Viking Books $22.95 (185p) ISBN 978-0-670-89154-2
As she did in Hotel Paradise, Grimes here eschews the mystery genre, venturing into Anita Brookner territory in two related novellas whose protagonists are lonely women in emotional limbo. The unnamed heroine of the title story is a colorless woman...
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Martha Grimes, Author Viking Books $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-670-89491-8
Grimes made her reputation with her Richard Jury mysteries, but she has also successfully produced character-driven psychological fiction. This smartly written, quietly paced sequel to her 1996 hit Hotel Paradise revisits precocious 12-year-old...
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Martha Grimes, Author Viking Books $25.95 (346p) ISBN 978-0-670-03461-1
Grimes, well known for her extensive Richard Jury mystery series, has struck gold with precocious 12-year-old Emma Graham, who was featured in two of Grimes' previous novels. Basking in the glow of new-found fame after narrowly escaping a murder...
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Martha Grimes, Viking, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-02244-1
A 20-year-old kidnapping with faint echoes of the Lindbergh case drives Grimes's convoluted fourth crime novel featuring Emma Graham, a direct sequel to 2005's Belle Ruin. Emma, a 12-year-old cub reporter who also helps out at the Hotel Paradise in...
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Martha Grimes. Scribner, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4767-2395-2
This addictive, whimsical follow-up to 2003’s Foul Matter from MWA Grand Master Grimes dives into the cesspool that is the New York publishing world. L. Bass Hess, a despicable literary agent, likes to sue his former clients, claiming, after they...
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Martha Grimes. Scribner, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4767-2402-7
MWA Grandmaster Grimes pays tribute to Hitchcock in her middling 23rd mystery featuring London policeman Richard Jury (after 2010’s The Black Cat). Seventeen years after the discovery of heiress Tess Williamson’s body at the bottom of the terrace...
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Martha Grimes. Atlantic Monthly, $26 (368) ISBN 978-0-8021-2801-0
The shooting death of American physicist David Moffitt and his wife, Rebecca, outside the Artemis Club, an exclusive London casino and art gallery, propels MWA Grand Master Grimes’s solid 24th mystery featuring Scotland Yard’s Det. Supt. Richard...
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Martha Grimes, Author . Viking $25.95 (414p) ISBN 978-0-670-01869-7
Bestseller Grimes’s compelling second novel to feature the enigmatic young woman who calls herself Andi Oliver (after 1999’s Biting the Moon
) begins with Andi, who’s still unaware of her real name or her past, adrift in the Dakota
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Martha Grimes, Author , read by Roger Rees. Penguin Audiobooks $25.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-280011-9
Grimes's popular mysteries are named after British pubs, and Rees's excellent performance here will make readers feel as if they're at the bar themselves, listening to the actor spin a good, old-fashioned detective story. Grimes (The...
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Martha Grimes, Author . Viking $25.95 (372p) ISBN 978-0-670-03259-4
Red pencils draw real blood in this delightful publishing world crime spoof by Grimes, expert storyteller and bestselling author of the Richard Jury mysteries (The Man with a Load of Mischief, etc.). When Paul Giverney, a hot suspense novelist,...
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Martha Grimes, Author . Viking $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-670-03327-0
For Richard Jury, the death of his cousin—apparently his one link to his childhood—generates "an emptiness that he hadn't seen coming" and supplies an existential, melancholic subtext to this 19th outing for the New Scotland...
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Martha Grimes, Author . Viking $25.95 (341p) ISBN 978-0-670-03479-6
At the start of bestseller Grimes's compelling 20th Richard Jury mystery, the Scotland Yard detective is on suspension because he decided to save lives rather than wait for a warrant in his previous outing, The Winds of Change
(2004). With time
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Martha Grimes, Author . Viking $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-03004-0
Reading Grimes's 16th Richard Jury novel (The Case Has Altered, etc.) is like watching a good movie on TV constantly interrupted by commercials. The author used to produce well-crafted, atmospheric works with delightful characters, but in recent
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Martha Grimes, Author . Viking $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-670-03786-5
Following hard upon the action of 2006's twisty The Old Wine Shades
, Grimes's equally intricate 21st Richard Jury mystery brings the Scotland Yard superintendent to a shady London hotel to investigate the murder of wealthy bachelor Billy...
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Martha Grimes, Author Ballantine Books $7.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-345-39425-5
A 12-year-old girl investigates a mysterious drowning death. (June)
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Martha Grimes, Author . Viking $25.95 (323p) ISBN 978-0-670-02160-4
At the start of bestseller Grimes's muddled 22nd Richard Jury mystery (after Dust
), the body of an unidentified woman, who reminds Jury of a Pre-Raphaelite beauty, lies in a mortuary in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Shot outside the Black Cat,
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Martha Grimes, Author Little, Brown and Company Inc $19.95 (333p) ISBN 978-0-316-32894-4
Richard Jury, London police superintendent, is a suspect himself in Grimes's 11th mystery named after English pubs--this one in the Lake District of poets Wordsworth and Coleridge. Jury is considering marriage to recently met widow Jane Holdsworth...
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Martha Grimes, Author Viking $22.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-670-88870-2
In her 16th Richard Jury mystery, Grimes delays the great man's appearance until late in the game, but the novel is nonetheless as consuming as its 15 predecessors (most recently, The Stargazey, 1998). Here, Jury's pal Melrose Plant leases Seabourne,
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Martha and Ken Grimes. Scribner, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4767-2408-9
With its title taken from a line spoken by the three witches in Macbeth, this prickly, wildly uneven memoir is ostensibly about years of excessive drinking by the celebrated mystery author and her son. In alternate sections, the mother-son team...
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Martha Grimes, read by Steve West. Dreamscape Media, 10 CDs, 12 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-974901-44-9
West’s melodious British baritone smoothly sorts through the complicated plot and numerous characters in Grimes’s 24th Richard Jury mystery. Det. Supt. Richard Jury is hunting for the man who shot and killed American physicist David Moffitt and his...
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Martha Grimes, Author, John Lee, Read by , read by John Lee. Penguin Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-305845-8
Man walked into a pub." This line, delivered with a droll inflection by reader John Lee, is the perfect opening for Martha Grimes's latest entry in her Inspector Jury series. Harry Johnson enters the Old Wine Shades pub and recounts to Jury...
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Martha Grimes, Author, John Lee, Read by , read by John Lee. Penguin Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-305903-5
The rarely ruffled urbanity of Richard Jury is given an oral enhancement by reader Lee, whose plummy narration turns a bit more appropriately droll when it comes to delineating the New Scotland Yard superintendent's amateur partner in crime...
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Martha Grimes. Atlantic Monthly, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8021-4740-0
The discovery of the body of a French tourist, washed up on one of the Isles of Scilly off the Cornish coast, kicks off MWA Grand Master Grimes’s entertaining, if sometimes befuddling, 25th mystery featuring Scotland Yard Supt. Richard Jury (after...
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