Reviews + Articles
What Are You Reading?
I hope you're all doing well this week. First, because so many of us are mystery/crime fiction readers, I want to share this article from Library Journal, "Crime and Comfort: 90 Mysteries for Our Times Promise Escape and Coziness / Mystery Preview 2021" by Melissa...
Legacy of Death by Judith Cutler
Judith Cutler's second Matthew Rowsley mystery, Legacy of Death, was a little too slow-paced for me. Rowsley and his wife, Harriet, alternate narration in this old-fashioned account of estate life in Victorian England. Thorncroft Estate in Shropshire, England has...
Murder in Galway by Carlene O’Connor
Let's face it. If the series says, "A Home To Ireland Mystery", and the title is Murder in Galway, I'll at least try the book. Carlene O'Connor doesn't disappoint in this descriptive mystery that takes an American to Galway, Ireland. Although Tara Meehan had never...
April Treasures in My Closet
I've already read a few of the April book releases, so I know we're all in for a treat that month. Check out the forthcoming books. And, as always, let me know what I missed, since I"m only talking about the books I have or have read. Alicia Beckman may be a new...
The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths
I have to just face it. Every author isn't for every reader. I've tried Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway mysteries. I read one of the Magic Men ones, and I was quite hopeful for that book. When I finished The Postscript Murders, I realized I was much more excited...
To the Dark by Chris Nickson
If you like realistic historical fiction, atmospheric with sometimes grim details of daily life, you might want to try the third Simon Westow mystery, Chris Nickson's To the Dark. When the snow melts in the dirty factory town of Leeds, England in February 1823, the...