Reviews + Articles

Winners and Murders at the Manors

Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Leeza S. from Highland Park, IL and Robert R. from San Antonio, TX won the copies of The Blue Diamond. Linda K. from Woodstock, MD will receive No Accident. The books are going out in the mail today. Manors and...

What Are You Reading?

I'm actually going to the movies and lunch on Sunday. I don't know if any of you have seen the previews for "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris", but it looks charming. https://youtu.be/iO9JcPbbmAA Okay. I'm going to age myself here, but I've never minded. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to...

Two-Way Murder by E.C.R. Lorac

Sometimes, Martin Edwards' notes about a book for the British Library Crime Classics are almost as interesting as the mystery itself. According to his introduction, this novel in the Crime Classics series is published now for the first time. Evidently, Lorac wrote...

Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries, ed. by Martin Edwards

I love the cover of Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries. It's one of the most recent collections from British Library Crime Classics. As always, Martin Edwards edited the collection, and wrote the introduction to this anthology of stories involving the animal...

Death and the Conjuror by Tom Mead

If you're a fan of locked-room mysteries or Golden Age ones, you might want to try Tom Mead's debut, Death and the Conjuror. His mystery is a tribute to John Dickson Carr, and all those masters of the locked-room puzzles. It's evident he's a fan as his amateur sleuth,...

Just the Way You Are by Beth Moran

Thanks to Kaye Wilkinson Barley for introducing me to Beth Moran's Just the Way You Are. This novel was just right, a positive, uplifting story of a young woman learning to love herself. And, along the way, she discovered she loved herself the most when she was...