What Are You Reading?

September 06, 2018

It’s National Read a Book Day! For this Thursday group, every day is National Read a Book Day, isn’t it? What are you reading today? I’m going to start a book at the airport while I’m waiting to fly to St. Petersburg for Bouchercon. I can tell...

Secret Undertaking by Mark de Castrique

September 05, 2018

After I read a couple of Mark de Castrique’s Sam Blackman books, I quit the series. But, the seventh Buryin’ Barry mystery, Secret Undertaking, made me go back to pick up the first in this series. Dark humor, that western North Carolina small...

The Cats Came Back by Sofie Kelly

September 04, 2018

There seem to have been an extraordinary number of weddings in mysteries this summer. No, librarian Kathleen Paulson isn’t the one getting married in Sofie Kelly’s The Cats Came Back. But, she’s part of the wedding party and planning throughout...

Death at Whitewater Church by Andrea Carter

September 03, 2018

While the trade paperback of Andrea Carter’s Death at Whitewater Church was just released, it appears that the book has been out for several years online. However, most readers will discover it as the debut mystery in a character-driven, atmospheric series....

Icepick by Phillip DePoy

September 02, 2018

While the third Foggy Moscowitz mystery, Icepick, is called “A noir mystery set in Florida”, the violence of Phillip DePoy’s latest book is offset by the dark humor and the mysticism. In fact, like Foggy, the reader may get to the end and wonder what...