CBC Radio host Shelagh Rogers has long been a fan of tales of murder and mayhem. During her final week as host of Sounds Like Canada, she got together with her panel of mystery lovers one last time to recommend some of the latest and greatest reads for this summer.
The panelists are J.D. Singh, the co-owner of the Sleuth of Baker Street bookstore in Toronto; Margaret Cannon, the mystery-book columnist for the Globe and Mail newspaper; and P.K. Rangachari, a mystery lover who is also a professor in the faculty of medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton.
The session started out with its own mystery: a missing panelist. One of the three was lost in transit, so Shelagh begins by asking the others about the changes they’ve noticed in the genre over the last few years.
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View the recommended reading list:
J.D. Singh's suggestions:
The Headhunters by Peter Lovesey (Soho Press)
Moonlight Downs by Adrian Hyland (Soho Press)
Kill All the Judges by William Deverell (McClelland & Stewart )
The Downhill Lie by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf).
Broken Shore by Peter Temple (Anchor Canada)
Bad Debts by Peter Temple (Anchor Canada)
Margaret Cannon's suggestions:
The Last Train to Kazan by Stephen Miller ( Penguin)
The Girl of His Dreams by Donna Leon (Atlantic Monthly)
The Demon of Dakar by Kjell Erikson (Thomas Dunne Books )
Bleeding Heart Square by Andrew Taylor (Penguin)
P.K. Rangachari's picks:
The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin (Penguin)
Interred with their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell (Dutton)
Skin and Bone by Kathryn Fox (Hodder) July release
Toronto Noir edited by Janine Armin and Nathaniel Moore (Akashic Books, New York)
Green Mantle by John Buchan (Oxford University Press)
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