Jane Austen meets Tommy and Tuppence in this third historical cozy mystery set in the world of Jane Austen’s novels after all those earlier happily ever afters. Claudia Gray has established a brilliant and sparkling Regency world from the dialogue to the dress and no less dazzling clever murder mystery for her young sleuths to […]
As war rages across Europe, North Africa, and the Pacific, a married woman with her husband overseas tries to keep the home fires burning for herself and her children all while a serial killer is taking out the women Rosies working the factories of Seattle. Kevin O’Brien is a known mystery writer to me for […]
Poirot and Catchpool return for one of their bizarrest cases yet. They get one confession of murder and one confession that she thinks she’ll be murdered, all in one coach bus trip- and that’s before they reach the destination of their new case to investigate a murder and get the accused declared innocent. I’ve said […]
Arriving at the third installment in the New Hercule Poirot Mysteries series, I’ve settled in for a comfy listen and a visit with Sophie Hannah’s Hercule Poirot and her engaging original detective creation, Scotland Yard detective, Edward Catchpool. A blend of historical, cozy mystery, and a nod to Agatha Christie’s detective creation, the light humor […]
When I spotted that this was recommended for fans of Agatha Christie and TE Kinsey, I had to take a closer look and then decided I must give this new to me series and author a try with its Golden Age of British Mystery, time period setting and a pair of snappy amateur detectives. The […]
An internationally famous Irish authoress changes her will, leaving her estate to a dying man, and invites Poirot and Catchpool to her estate for the event. A bizarre turn of events follows. Poirot and Catchpool must solve a murder and everyone in the family and household has secrets. Closed Casket is the second standalone historical […]
Robert Dugoni is an auto-read for me. I love the series I have read, but A Killing on the Hill is a standalone. I liked this story of a journalist for a paper, writing about a big murder case. The author has a note which talks about how it relates to a real life case […]
A farmhouse in smalltown Iowa with a history of death and vanishing. If ghosts walk, they walk there the locals know and two women separated by more than a century are connected to the house by death. A deeper connection slowly surfaces as the danger grows more acute on Predicament Avenue. I have seen a […]
I don’t read very much historical fiction. It is often degrading to women. The commonplace beliefs are upsetting. A Calamity of Souls was heartbreaking each step of the way. With less scientific methods, and the prejudice in law enforcement and judicial systems, a black man arrested for murder is likely to be convicted. He is […]
After enjoying Morgan Brice’s m/m paranormal romantic suspense series, Badlands, and already loving the western genre and John Solo’s narration work, I figured Peacemaker would be a shoe-in to capture my interest. I was not mistaken though I had a fun surprise in store when it came to the style of the story. Peacemaker combines […]