• Library Journal review of The Red Queen
    The Red Queen by Martha Grimes Atlantic Monthly. (Richard Jury, Bk. 26). Jul. 2025. 256p. ISBN 9780802164940. $28. Grimes’s sleuth Richard Jury returns in his 26th banter-filled, fast-paced mystery (a follow-up to 2019’s The Old Success). Businessman Tom Treadnor is shot and killed in the town of Twickenham, but the local police hand the case off to the London ...
  • Booklist review of The Red Queen
    Advanced Review  Booklist Online Exclusive: May 27, 2025 The Red Queen. By Martha Grimes July 2025. 256p. Atlantic Monthly, $28 (9780802164940); e-book (9780802164957) Superintendent Richard Jury of New Scotland Yard, the star of 35 previous novels by Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award–winner Grimes (The Old Success, 2019), returns in another cerebral police procedural. Here, crime-scene investigation takes a ...
  • Kirkus Reviews The Red Queen
    THE RED QUEEN Author: Martha Grimes Review Issue Date: June 1, 2025 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pages: 256 Price ( Hardcover ): $28.00 Publication Date: July 1, 2025 ISBN ( Hardcover ): 9780802164940 Section: Fiction Two tipplers at a suburban London pub take ignoring the other patrons to a new level when they almost fail to notice that the man sitting between them has been shot ...
  • Washington Post: Five of the best mysteries to read this summer (2025)
    Washington Post, May 23, 2025 Washington Post ran a column highlighting the five best mysteries to read this summer.  We’re pleased to say The Red Queen was among the five titles. “It’s a seemingly impossible murder. A patron sitting on a bar stool at the Queen pub in the village of Twickenham, England, is shot in the ...
  • THE OLD SUCCESS picked as one of The Best Crime Novels of the Year 2019
    The New York Times, December 5, 2019 by Marilyn Stasio Lisa Sandlin’s irresistible mystery THE BIRD BOYS (Cinco Puntos, paper, $16.95) is set in 1973 in Beaumont, a bustling city on the Texas Gulf Coast where a freshly minted private eye has just hung out his shingle. His first job, a classic missing persons case, is ...
  • The New York Times: Rotters, Holy Dusters and Murderers
    The New York Times, November 1, 2019 by Marilyn Stasio Martha Grimes’s novels are a hybrid of mystery forms, all of them hugely entertaining. THE OLD SUCCESS (Atlantic Monthly, $26) is a perfect example. The plot starts off as a classic whodunit involving a local investigation of the mysterious death of Manon Vinet, a beautiful Frenchwoman ...
  • CrimeReads: Martha Grimes Has Plenty of Style
    CrimeReads, November 11, 2019 by Molly Odintz It was a hot Sunday in May when I took a cab from Malice Domestic, a cozy and traditional mystery convention held yearly in Bethesda, Maryland, over to the quiet suburban home of Martha Grimes, the octogenarian author of the cleverly plotted Richard Jury series, where each novel ...
  • Publisher’s Weekly review of The Old Success: A Richard Jury Mystery
    The discovery of the body of a French tourist, washed up on one of the Isles of Scilly off the Cornish coast, kicks off MWA Grand Master Grimes’s entertaining, if sometimes befuddling, 25th mystery featuring Scotland Yard Supt. Richard Jury (after 2018’s The Knowledge). Soon afterward, a man is killed on an East Midlands estate—possibly by ...
  • CrimeReads The Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2019: Part III
    Martha Grimes, The Old Success (Atlantic Monthly Press) I’m a fan of this series going way back (my mother read them religiously) and I’m pleased to see that the series continues to this day. The Old Success is the 25th in Grimes’ Richard Jury series; in her latest, Grimes takes us to the Cornish coast, where the body of a ...
  • New York Times reviews The Knowledge
    NY Times Book Review published a wonderful review of THE KNOWLEDGE, Martha’s Grimes 24th Richard Jury mystery, available online and in bookstores as of April 3, 2018.