The Skeleton Room by Kate Ellis - the 7th in the Wesley Peterson series. A body is fished from the sea and almost simultaneously a skeleton is found in a walled up room of an old house. Once again Wesley and his archaeologist friend find correlations between present and past evil. Totally had me guessing on the whodunnit.
4 stars
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The Art of the English Murder by Lucy Worsley - the author draws a correlation between an interest in murder and the change from an agrarian society to an industrialized one. Not as boring as it sounds but this book just didn't grab me.
2 stars
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The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan - a wealthy businessman is found dead at the bottom of a cliff and Esa Khattak, the head of minority-sensitive cases is asked to investigate. The dead man may actually be a war crimes perpetrator. The mystery part was very good but it's the story of Bosnia that will stick with me. Some small irritation with the referencing of previous incidents (this is a first novel so it's not like I missed a book in the series) and some unfinished business. Graphic war scenes, taken from actual survivor accounts.
4.5 stars
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The Plague Maiden by Kate Ellis - while Wesley Peterson deals with a case of an innocent man jailed for murder, a series of threats against a supermarket, a 12 year old murder case, and the impending birth of his second child, Neil is excavating the remains of a 14th century plague pit.
3 stars
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