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 […]
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 […]
I always like to start my reviews with the reason I picked up this particular book. Sometimes it is the cover, sometimes it is a well-loved author’s latest release, and sometimes it is because the author mentioned her book during her appearance on my favorite game show. That is too specific a scenario to not […]
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 […]
I’m a fan of Stephen King. I have been since I read Misery in 7th grade. I wasn’t as avid of a reader then. So I didn’t actually read a lot of his books, but I watched a lot of the movies. While I had seen the original version of Carrie (I’ve never watched the […]
I needed to figure out a way to start reading series where I am not current or the series is finished but haven’t read them yet. So it’s a way to commit myself to read my backlist, particularly series. I have been wanting to read the Joe Pickett series for awhile after reading […]
My family was talking at dinner one night, when the subject of cremation came up, as it does. When I wasn’t quite able to grasp the concept of Aqua Cremation, my daughter brought up a helpful video posted by Caitlin Doughty in her “Ask A Mortician?” segment on YouTube. In a funny and engaging way […]
I started reading the eARC, way back in January before it was released, and got about 24% into it and just couldn’t catch interest. Now I had a chance to try it on audio from the library and it went much better. I don’t know if it was mood timing or what, but I really […]
I am a huge fan of Dannika Dark’s Crossbreed Series. Prior to this read-along, I hadn’t considered that it was a spin-off series. I was excited to discover the connection when the Mageri Series was selected as for the Blog’s read-along (Thanks Anne!) and eager to see where it all started. It is only by […]
This is the first book in the Detective Annalisa Vega series by Joanna Schaffhausen. I’ve never read a book by this author. I don’t remember how I found her. But it was one of the ebooks I downloaded from the library before my vacation in July. I’m a huge fan of Karin Slaughter’s Will Trent […]