What Are You Reading?

June 30, 2022

I hope you had some nice weather in the last week. I know I enjoyed opening up the house. Here we are with 90s and humid, then 80s and delightful, and this morning we were two degrees above a record low! It was still nice out. I can’t complain about the last...

Nonna Maria and the Case of the Missing Bride by Lorenzo Carcaterra

June 29, 2022

In conversation, I’ve said to a few friends that there haven’t been a lot of mysteries that stood out to me this year. Lorenzo Carcaterra remedied that with his quiet mystery, Nonna Maria and the Case of the Missing Bride. He takes readers to Ischia, an...

The Lost by Jeffrey B. Burton

June 28, 2022

Mace Reid, Officer Kippy Gumm, and, best of all, Mace’s cadaver dogs, are all back in the third book in the series, The Lost. While Mace’s HRD, human remains detection dogs, especially Vira, are brilliant, and Kippy is streetwise and has flashes of...

A Bride’s Guide to Marriage and Murder by Dianne Freeman

June 27, 2022

I remembered how much I enjoy Dianne Freeman’s Countess of Harleigh mystery series when I felt bad for Lady Frances and George Hazelton when I read that her mother had been staying with her for four months before her wedding. Frances’ family is nothing but...

Fell Murder by E.C.R. Lorac

June 26, 2022

Sometimes, a traditional mystery from the British Library Crime Classics series is perfect in troubled times. E.C.R. Lorac’s Fell Murder, set in Lunsedale, just south of the Lake District in England, introduces Chief Inspector Macdonald from Scotland Yard. Yes,...