Reviews + Articles
Winners and Mysteries from Nature
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Tom D. from Missoula, MT won One-Shot Harry. Glen D. from Yuba City, CA won Small Felonies 2. The books are going out in the mail today. Despite the Supreme Court, at the moment we still have plants and bees in the...
What Are You Reading?
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 week. We...
Nonna Maria and the Case of the Missing Bride by Lorenzo Carcaterra
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 island in the...
The Lost by Jeffrey B. Burton
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 inspiration, Mace...
A Bride’s Guide to Marriage and Murder by Dianne Freeman
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 trouble...
Fell Murder by E.C.R. Lorac
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, it's a...