The Vanishing Museum on the Rue Mistral by M.L. Longworth

April 21, 2021

While M.L. Longworth’s The Vanishing Museum on the Rue Mistral is the ninth Provencal mystery, I had no problem starting with this one. You can certainly pick up the series here. It’s an unusual book, set in Aix-en-Provence and other towns in the area, a...

A Man Named Doll by Jonathan Ames

April 20, 2021

The notes referred to Jonathan Ames’ detective novel, A Man Named Doll, as quirky and “deliciously noir”. Quirky, maybe. It seemed a little too dependent on old tropes. Stolen kidneys? Really? Ames is the creator of two television shows, Bored to...

Death Washes Ashore by Patricia Skalka

April 19, 2021

Here’s an odd one for you. At the time I’m posting this, I’m not even sure of the release date, only that it’s April. It’s from The University of Washington Press, and, even the author’s website did not yet list Patricia...

On an Outgoing Tide by Caro Ramsay

April 18, 2021

I’m going to be totally honest here. While I enjoyed Caro Ramsay’s On an Outgoing Tide, I also felt completely lost at times. The book is the twelfth in an ongoing police procedural series set in Glasgow featuring Detective Inspector Colin Anderson, his...

What You Never Knew by Jessica Hamilton

April 17, 2021

Two sisters, one living and one dead, return to the scene of their childhood in Jessica Hamilton’s debut, What You Never Knew. It turns out there’s quite a bit the Bennett sisters, May and June, never knew. April Bennett always told her daughters she sold...