The Ruth Galloway series is an unusual sort of police procedural with archeological and spiritual aspects. Ruth is a single woman who now has an 11 year old daughter. She’s had some success with books and even television, and is now head of her department. She is normally called in when bones are found with […]
I am still not over my desire for thrillers written with the great outdoors as the backdrop. After I finished my review for last month, I was forced to find another series to feed this obsession. There are a few that sparked my interest, but none more than the Anna Pigeon novels written by Nevada […]
I’ve been enjoying this Maggie D’arcy series as it has layers of plot. Maggie is a homicide detective in NY at the start of the series but she visits Ireland to try to find out what happened to her cousin. Her family has a rich history with Ireland, and runs an Irish bar on Long […]
I chose the Kings Lake Investigation series because I love British mysteries and I own the first 3 books and the 4th one was just released in May. It was a great choice. I really enjoyed listening to these with a favorite narrator. The overall story arc is the reshaping of the law enforcement […]
The Eve Ronin series is one I would read in order as the personal and career developments build through the series. The focus is on the police procedural with a small background of personal life but the Hollywood scene is almost a character itself. Eve is a new homicide detective in a misogynistic, political […]
I am really enjoying the Detective Alyssa Wyatt series. I’ve come to know the characters and members of her team and also some of their family members. Alyssa is a head of a major crime team. She cares about family and her team is part of her “family.” They are a bunch of good people […]
The Woman in the Library did not have a lot to do with libraries, other than an initial murder taking place there. It did have a lot to do with books and writers though. It is also a story within a story. Each chapter is a piece of a famous author’s manuscript following a letter […]
The Handler is an espionage thriller. The action and tension is suspenseful throughout. Of course, I was rooting for the American team. The Russians seemed to be very skillful in their tactics and efficiently brutal. The Middle Eastern characters seemed to be either religious zealots, or people caught unhappily in that world of zealots and […]
I have loved the work of this author’s other series, so I was excited to try some of her backlist being released on audio. Georgia Skeehan series is about a woman firefighter who has become a fire marshal. Even with her father being a firefighter lost in his duty and knowing his friends, Georgia still […]
Brought together because of murder, familiar Jane Austen figures in up-to-the-minute guises people, an entertaining plot which left me excited to grab it up and read. What Happened on Box Hill is told from college freshman, Caty Morland’s point of view as she is determined to get to the bottom of her relatively new best […]