Off to London goes the Agatha Christie household for town living and a staging of one of Agatha’s plays, if a fiendish murderer doesn’t kill the play before it even gets started. Colleen Cambridge has built a sparkling keen historical cozy mystery series with a fascinating amateur sleuth in the skilled and clever housekeeper, Phyllida […]
The Christies are away, the new vacuum cleaner is in route, the maids are love crazy over the new valet, and a mysterious invitation to a murder is delivered to Mallowan Hall. Phyllida soon discovers that someone is not playing games when the corpse at the party turns out to be truly dead. Colleen Cambridge’s […]
My two favorite Charlie Cochrane historical cozy mysteries combined for this all new series that begins with a cold case from Jonty’s past. I was eager for this coziest of cozy mysteries in the authentic historical setting of post WWII England with two pairs of amateur detecting teams working together to solve the case. As […]
In fall of 2023, I first read this book out of order as a new release for the New Hercule Poirot Mysteries series. I vowed then and there I was going back for the whole series and chose to borrow them as audios from the library. I made good on this series reading binge […]
A famous writers’ Detection Club comes to a local village to raise funds to repair and orphanage and judge the local Murder Club short story contest only for everyone to be faced with a real murder in need of solution. The second Phyllida Bright mystery builds on the strength of the first one with the […]
A middle-aged couple are hosting a country house party, a dead body is found on her library rug. Does this set up sound familiar? Oh, yes it does and that middle-aged couple? None other than Agatha Christie and her archeologist husband, Max Mallowan. Of course I had to read Colleen Cambridge’s mystery series set in […]
When Jane Austen’s delightful Matchmaker stumbles on a body, Emma finds a new interest to devote her time. Vanessa Kelly has written some engaging historical romantic suspenses, but I was over the top thrilled when she took up her pen to write a murder mystery and sequel set in the world of Jane Austen’s Emma. […]
A mysterious woman, a ghostly house, and a serial killer in the past are the research subject for a present-day woman who discovers the deadly secrets from the past have reawakened. Jaime Jo Wright has a gift for dual-timeline suspense. This is only my second visit to her books, but the experience rivaled my first […]
A chance to get away for a quiet holiday above the heat and crowds at a Buddhist Monastery doesn’t quiet offer the peace and tranquility Jane and Shanti were hoping for in this latest Harriet Steel historical cozy mystery. Retreat From Nuala is the fourteenth book in the Inspector de Silva series and […]
The Cambridge dons are back in action as a detective team, but this time their helping out a fellow professor accused of murder. Charlie Cochrane’s Cambridge Fellows has long been an auto-buy historical cozy mystery series set against the world of academia in Edwardian and post WWI England with a cerebral pair of forbidden lovers as […]