Welcome to Litsy!

Tagging the first book in the series since this fourth one is not in the Litsy catalog. Published in 1987, it‘s a wee bit dated, but still not too bad and the mystery was pretty good. A bomb goes off at a cribbage tournament at an upscale hotel in Manhattan. Lt. Sigrid‘s partner, Tillie was there and is injured. She takes the case, but with two dead and two badly injured, who was really the intended target?

7th book for #ChristmasCrimeChallenge

1. Tagged
2. With dessert, my favorite beverage is coffee (preferably not poisoned coffee). My favorite dessert is bananas Foster, which has about 100,000 calories per serving.
#wondrouswednesday

#TemptingTitles #WithBlind

Searching through my TBR for this prompt I was reminded of this series. I really like MC Mallory. I need to pick up where I left off some day.

I found this a very interesting non-fiction about the cold cases of the New York Cold Case squad. Some are solved, some still need that one piece of evidence that will solve the case and give the detectives rest. And in more recent cases also family and friends. Politics has a place here too. I tried to find out what has happened with this squad. Has it been absorbed into other divisions? The politics sounded inhuman.
TBR since ?; 421 pages.

My second completed book for #CloakandDaggerChristmas. This is the start of Maron‘s Sigrid Harald series. First published in 1981, it was a tiny bit dated (with some very inappropriate male behavior) but still entertaining. An unpopular historian and art critic in the art department of an NYC university is murdered with poisoned coffee. Det. Inspector Harald, one of the few woman detectives in her precinct, is on the case.

I did not like the previous book in the series so was relieved that this one was getting back to the better quality of earlier books. It also seems to be a concluding book for the series which is probably a good thing- the main character has run its course. Time to retire.

Muggable Mary on the Boards in Belmar. #NYPD #femaledetective

As of right now- there‘s $9.58🤓