Reviews + Articles
Murder in the Cathedral by Cora Harrison
Way back when I was in college, a history professor taught that we could discuss any historical event by covering the social, political, cultural, religious, and economic causes. No, a murder mystery doesn’t hinge on those causes. However, I appreciate Cora...
Winner & A Dog Days Giveaway
Congratulations to Lisa W. from Akron, IN who won the Hamptons Mystery Gift Package. The publisher is mailing it. This week, I’m giving away mysteries featuring dogs. Spencer Quinn’s Bark to the Future has one of the best narrators in mysteries, Chet...
What Are You Reading?
It’s been a pretty good week here. I’m teaching the second of two Readers’ Advisory classes at work today, and I love to do that. I’ve watched a coupled webinars as publishers are talking about their winter releases. And, I went to a new...
Nail’s Crossing by Kris Lackey
Somewhere buried in Kris Lackey’s first Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond mystery, Nail’s Crossing, is a plot. That plot is underneath so many chase scenes that I lost count, including one chase scene with Maytubby piloting an airplane. But, I did like...
Sandie’s Corner – Fox Creek by William Kent Krueger
William Kent Krueger’s Fox Creek leads library holds throughout the country this week. It’s the nineteenth book in the Cork O’Connor series. Although I read it several months ago for Library Journal, I’m not the expert on this series that...
Six Feet Deep Dish by Mindy Quigley
Mindy Quigley kicks off a new cozy mystery series set in Geneva Bay, Wisconsin with Six Feet Deep Dish. I’ll admit I wasn’t so sure about the protagonist when I read Delilah (Dee) O’Leary’s description of herself as a micromanaging chef....