A firefighter dies as a fire victim in his own home. A widowed dollhouse maker and amateur detective and forensics specialist partners with a local sheriff’s deputy to investigate. Katie Tietjen and her mid-twentieth century Maple Bishop series were new to me, but I was intrigued the Maple Bishop character based on a real-life criminology […]
Mattie is newly married. The family is out at a resort to do some climbing, hiking and snowshoeing. They hear a cry which might mean someone is hurt. Maddie and Robo go to check it out while Cole and the girls go back to the lodge to get help. Maddie is nearly to the body […]
The Sheriff Bet Rivers series is one I had been wanting to read. I was delighted to have this opportunity. Elizabeth Rivers grew up in the small town of Collier, Washington. Her father and his father were the sheriff here. She left home to study law enforcement and work in Los Angeles. She came […]
A return to the tropical island wonder of her birth was never going to be paradise, but a dead body in the pool during her first day of work is the start of a deadly mystery that a journalist must solve before she’s the next victim. Jennifer K Morita is a debut author and I […]
I love mysteries and a National Park setting so this seemed like a great series to read. I picked up this third book in the National Park Mysteries and planned to read the first two from the library. For the start of the 4th of July weekend I did. I used an unusual method for […]
Mattie’s family issues come to a head in Standing Dead. She has her sister and grandmother and knows more truth about her parentage and history. She and her sister go to Mexico to find their mother but she and her new husband have fled. Mattie returns home and the hits just keep happening. I love […]
A book pal put me onto this series since I adore Regency England and historical mysteries. I probably should have waited and started at the beginning, but I spotted that blurb mentioning a haunted house and locked room mystery and I had to dive in here. Death at the Manor is third in the Lily […]
After already having read this author before, I was excited when I came across this latest historical mystery set in Victorian Era London with a lower class Irish police detective up against his shadowed past and investigating a horrific disaster on the Thames. Blending real history and clever fiction and mystery, Karen Odden has released […]
The Jo Wyatt Mystery series continues with Mercy Creek. Many things I said about the first book are still true. I like Jo Wyatt. She has the qualities of being smart and compassionate. She’s been on the force 12 years and there have only been 2 homicides; these two books have seen a bunch more. They […]