A fashion faux pas happens when Tabitha finds a body rather than a fabulous Haute Couture gown on her first visit to a Collection showing. Colleen Cambridge continues to wow me with her fun blend of real life personage Julia Child, post-WWII Paris, and her entertaining fictional characters and mystery plot. A Fashionably French […]
After satiating myself on her Phyllida Bright Mystery series featuring Agatha Christie as a character, I was eager to taste test her newer series, American in Paris featuring the delectable Julia Child as a prominent side character. Colleen Cambridge does a spectacular job melding historical real life characters and time period settings with her […]
After satiating myself on her Phyllida Bright Mystery series featuring Agatha Christie as a character, I was eager to taste test her newer series, American in Paris featuring the delectable Julia Child as a prominent side character. Colleen Cambridge does a spectacular job melding historical real life characters and time period settings with her […]
I always love the Wrexford & Sloane series, with its found family, rugged individuals, social commentary and early scientific developments. It’s a delight and I highly recommend them. The murder happens because various groups want to control a scientific advancement. The science is about building bridges to span longer distances. It is developed using mathematics […]
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 […]
After the danger of their most recent detecting adventure and disappointment not to be providing the aristocratic heir, Stella and Lyndy head to the Highlands of Scotland to visit one of her relations and see a friend compete in the prestigious golf tournament on the course of St. Andrews. Clara McKenna has captivated me with […]
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 […]
The FBI K-9 series is one of the better ones for realistic work where the dogs are key in the story and do actual training and work. There is the police work the characters are doing with the dogs. The personal relationship of the teams, their friends and family is well developed. Our team is […]
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 […]