Off the Air by Christina Estes

March 26, 2024

Emmy Award-winning reporter Christina Estes tackles two subjects she knows in her mystery debut; TV journalism and Phoenix. Her Tony Hillerman Prize-winning debut is Off the Air. Phoenix TV reporter Jolene Garcia is always trying to top her last story and beat the...

A Deadly Walk in Devon by Nicholas George

March 25, 2024

How about a new cozy mystery series that involves walking tours set in England? Although most of Nicholas George’s A Deadly Walk in Devon involves the murder investigation, the early part of the book describes the scenery and background of Exmoor in northern...

The Blacklin County Files by Bill Crider & Judy Crider

March 24, 2024

Although I’m reading Bill Crider’s Sheriff Dan Rhodes mysteries in order, I stumbled across a story collection, The Blacklin County Files. The stories in the book were published in various magazines before they were collected here. They’re quick...

Death of an Author by E.C.R. Lorac

March 23, 2024

There are other authors from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction that are better known than E.C.R. Lorac, but I enjoy her books with the wit and clever plots. Martin Edwards, who wrote the introduction to Death of an Author, suggests that Lorac had fun with the...

Winners and A Mystery Giveaway

March 22, 2024

Congratulations to the winners of the last giveaway. Autumn T. from Portland, OR will receive Murder at the College Library. W.W. from Oakland, CA won Murder at an Irish Chipper. The books went out in the mail. This week’s mysteries couldn’t be more...