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 back, and no one in the crowded space saw the killer. So Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury is called in to figure out who had a motive to kill the victim — a local businessman named Tom Treadnor — plus the audacity and expertise to commit the crime. “The Red Queen” is the first new book since 2019 in Grimes’s long-running Richard Jury series, and fans will revel in this latest appearance of the detective and his eccentric and entertaining circle of colleagues and friends. (Atlantic Monthly)”
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