Each new entry in the Daniel Pitt series is highly anticipated and The Fourth Enemy was no exception. Spinning off Anne Perry’s fabulous Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series, this literal second generation follow up series is as engaging as the first. Daniel is settling in well as a lawyer in Marcus fford Croft’s firm and […]
The Gaslight Mystery series is a favorite. I was happy to see all the characters again, even Mrs. Ellsworth. We got a nice mix of Frank, Sarah, Maeve and Gino doing the investigating. I was also happy to see the Deckers, Sarah’s parents, help. A woman who may have been falsely imprisoned in an insane […]
I’ve been tracking with Chanel Cleeton since I first picked up her contemporary romance and then was utterly captivated when she moved into historical fiction spotlighting Cuban-Cuban American History and women characters in particular. I bring that up because this latest was something of a surprise blend in style of her older romances and more […]
Everything at this point is a spoiler for earlier books in the Lady Sherlock series. I would read this series in order because the complexity of the characters and relationships which are just as important as the particular cases. In Miss Moriarty, I Presume? Charlotte ends up faking her death to throw Moriarty off her […]
William Kent Krueger is a talented writer and I am happy to read any of his work. He also seems to have been paired with outstanding narrators. The Levee is a short, 3 1/2 hour story, available as an audio book initially. It is set in 1927 according to the blurb, but it felt like […]
A star Austrian opera singer and a pair of English sister typists forge an unlikely friendship, then pit themselves against the might of the Nazis by smuggling Jews to safety. I read that this book is based on a true story which flamed my interest even higher. Renee Ryan was a new to me author, […]
Westward the Tide has the distinction of being Louis L’Amour’s first full-length novel. Everything he wrote previously was published as short stories or serials in magazines. And, oddly, it was released in the UK first and didn’t publish in the US until 1977. Traversing parts of the Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming of the 1870’s, this […]
I really enjoy the historical mystery series by this author and she has multiple series. For the HoHoHo Read-athon, I listened to the newest Christmas story. Goodreads doesn’t consider it a series, but I think of it that way. All of the Christmas stories are a bit shorter, about a half book size but longer than […]
Was anyone else ever curious about those eight years spent apart for Jane Austen’s second chance romance pair in Persuasion? Or maybe what happened next for them and the other characters? How about their time before the big break up? A new to me author, Lyndsay Constable answers all those questions with her heartwarming, reflective […]
Post WWI era intrigue and murder along with a slow build second chance marital romance are at the heart of the fabulous Verity Kent series. Each installment fills me with high anticipation when I pick up the latest release because I know I will devour the book and be left satisfied, but wanting more. A […]