Reviews + Articles

Winners and Female Sleuths

Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Bonnie K. from Carmichael, CA will receive Over My Dead Body. The Last Dance of the Debutante is also going west, to Marilynne S. from Portland, OR. The books are going out in the mail today. This week, I'm giving...

What Are You Reading?

As I write this, the meteorolgists haven't decided if we're going to get a dusting of snow this weekend, or up to seventeen inches. I'm voting for the dusting, but I don't think I have a choice. The closer we get to the weekend, the more they'll know. They usually do...

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 reviews...

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 is...

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...