Reviews + Articles
Margie Bunting’s Favorites of 2021
I'm always so happy to share one of our reader's lists of favorite books of the past year. Today, Margie Bunting is talking about her Favorites of 2021. Margie is in her seventh year as editor of the newsletter for Sisters in Crime of Northern California. Her...
Find Me by Alafair Burke
While NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher isn't the primary focus of Alafair Burke's Find Me, some of us who followed her over eight years ago finally have answers, as does Ellie. It takes a complex storyline and a missing woman, but Ellie finally has a resolution to her...
A Three Book Problem by Vicki Delany
Any Sherlock Holmes fan will immediately recognize the reference to him with the title of Vicki Delany's seventh Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery. Readers of traditional mysteries will be pleased with the country house setting in A Three Book Problem. This mystery...
Coming-of-Age – The Tender Bar
I seldom talk about a movie here. First, in the last two years, I haven't been to a movie. And, I just don't give up two hours of my life to watch movies when I'm home, unless it's my seasonal appointment with "The Muppets' Christmas Carol". But, I'm a sucker for a...
Sandie’s Corner – Drowned Under
Long before Sandie Herron reviewed audiobooks here for "Have You Heard?", she reviewed books for Sandie's Corner. She noticed I never reviewed the second book in Wendall Thomas' Cyd Redondo series, so she asked if she could discuss Drowned Under. Thank you, Sandie,...
Kick-off Giveaway – England
It's time to start the weekly giveaways for 2022. Let's start with two books set in England. Over My Dead Body is Jeffrey Archer's book. It's the latest William Warwick novel, but you don't have to have read the previous books in order to read this collection of...