Humorous Crime Fiction

Image of A Line to Kill: A Novel (A Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery)
Author(s):
anthony Horowitz
Genre(s):
Mystery & Thriller, Murder, Humorous Crime Fiction, Series, Detective

A Line to Kill: A Novel (A Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery)

October 18, 2021
Reviewed by: 
D.R. Ransdell

Innovative British author Anthony Horowitz is up to his usual intertextual antics in A Line to Kill, a sequel to The Word Is Murder and The Sentence Is Death.

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Image of The Fifth Doctrine (The Guardian, 3)
Author(s):
Karen Robards
Genre(s):
Humor, Crime Mystery & Thriller, Humorous Crime Fiction, Mystery & Thriller

The Fifth Doctrine (The Guardian)

July 23, 2019
Reviewed by: 
Beth Kanell

“The trouble with being a sort of Wonder Woman is, once people know you exist, they either want to force you to do their jobs or kill you. Or both.”

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Image of Murder at Chateau sur Mer (A Gilded Newport Mystery)
Author(s):
Alyssa Maxwell
Genre(s):
Mystery & Thriller, Humorous Crime Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery & Thriller

Murder at Chateau sur Mer (A Gilded Newport Mystery)

September 26, 2017
Reviewed by: 
Judith Reveal

Emma Cross is an independent woman—more independent than anyone in 1897 Newport, Rhode Island, wants to admit.

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Image of The More You Ignore Me
Author(s):
Travis Nichols
Genre(s):
Technothrillers, Psychological Thriller, Humorous Crime Fiction

The More You Ignore Me

February 18, 2013
Reviewed by: 
Karen Winters Schwartz

“. . . reading this novel is like—exquisite torture.”
“I exist!”

“I will prove it to you!”

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Image of A Fistful of Collars: A Chet and Bernie Mystery (5) (The Chet and Bernie Mystery Series)
Author(s):
Spencer Quinn
Genre(s):
Humorous Crime Fiction

A Fistful of Collars

September 3, 2012
Reviewed by: 
Kathleen Hennrikus

“Long live Bernie and Chet the Jet.”

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Image of Rest In Pizza (Pizza Lovers)
Author(s):
Chris Cavender
Genre(s):
Series, Other, Humorous Crime Fiction, Detective

Rest in Pizza

June 8, 2012
Reviewed by: 
Kathleen Hennrikus

“. . . a slapdash effort . . .”

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Image of Death of a Kingfisher (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery, 27)
Author(s):
M. C. Beaton
Genre(s):
Mystery & Thriller, Contemporary, Crime Mystery & Thriller, Humorous Crime Fiction, Detective, Humorous Crime Fiction, Other, Series, Series, Other, Mystery & Thriller, Humorous Crime Fiction, Humorous Crime Fiction, Detective, Crime Mystery & Thriller, Contemporary, Mystery & Thriller, Contemporary, Crime Mystery & Thriller, Humorous Crime Fiction, Detective, Humorous Crime Fiction, Other, Series

Death of a Kingfisher

December 6, 2011
Reviewed by: 
Kathleen Hennrikus

“Pick up a copy of Death of a Kingfisher, pour yourself a dram—or ‘murder a whiskey,’ as one police officer says—and enjoy.”

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Author(s):
Jutta Profijt
Genre(s):
Pulp, International Settings, Humorous Crime Fiction, Humorous Crime Fiction, Detective, Debut Mystery & Thriller, Crime Mystery & Thriller

Morgue Drawer Four

October 26, 2011
Reviewed by: 
Sam Millar

“Morgue Drawer Four, a finalist for Germany’s 2010 Friedrich Glauser Prize for best crime novel, is a real find for aficionados of black humor and the macabre.

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