Reviews + Articles
What Are You Reading?
I have to admit I didn't read as much as I should have over the long weekend. Too much college football. As much as I enjoy college games, I will have to say I can't believe all the people in those stadiums, crowded together, without masks. I don't care if they have...
Murder in an Orchard Cemetery by Cora Harrison
Cora Harrison's eighth Reverend Mother mystery, Murder in an Orchard Cemetery is a book that fits my taste in Irish history. Admittedly, a lot of people won't find this leisurely paced historical mystery as intriguing as I did. Harrison brings together the three...
The Heron’s Cry by Ann Cleeves
If you missed Ann Cleeves' introduction to Detective Matthew Venn, you really should go back and read The Long Call. His character, background, marriage are all covered in that first book. Matthew's husband, Jonathan, and the Woodyard, a community arts centre, are...
Forgotten in Death by J.D. Robb
Even the investigations of crimes at New York City building sites are interesting when J.D. Robb writes about them. Forgotten in Death, the 53rd book in the Eve Dallas series is a riveting story that kept me up until I finished it. Homicide Lieutenant Eve Dallas isn't...
The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney & Ian Rankin
When I saw that Ian Rankin had completed an unfinished manuscript by the late William McIlvanney, D.I. Ladlaw's first case, I thought, "I'm in." Bloody Scotland's McIlvanney Prize, awarded to the Scottish Crime Book of the Year, is named for William McIlvanney. His...
Striking Range by Margaret Mizushima
Although Striking Range is the seventh Timber Creek K-9 mystery, the backstory that Margaret Mizushima presents is so smoothly done that new readers will be able to pick up the storyline, and it just serves as a gentle reminder for those of us who read Hanging Falls a...