The Book of Murder (2007) Guillermo Martinez translated by Sonia Soto As much as I enjoyed The Oxford Murders, I found The Book of Murder to be thoroughly disappointing. Rating: 5/10 Published by Penguin

The Oxford Murders (2005) Guillermo Martinez, translated by Sonia Soto Although related years after the events–after the death of the mathematician Arthur Seldom–we follow a young Argentinian graduate students during his stay at Oxford, and his discovery of the body of his landlady, an elderly women in failing health who had been involved in the […]

The Club Dumas (1993) Arturo Perez-Reverte translated by Sonia Soto (1996) I started this book, but couldn’t shake the nagging feeling of familiarity. Then I realized that I’d seen a movie of this story. The Ninth Gate (starring Johnny Depp) was the movie of Arturo Perez-Reverte’s The Club Dumas. So I’ve put it down for […]