Reviews + Articles
A Star is Dead by Elaine Viets
I had never heard of a death investigator before reading Elaine Viets' latest Angela Richman, Death Investigator mystery. According to the web site, Coroner Talk, "The role of the medicolegal death investigator is to investigate any death that falls under the...
Suzanne Chazin, Guest Author
Suzanne Chazin is our guest author today. I'm grateful that she was able to find a subject in these difficult times when it's not easy to concentrate. I'm going to let her introduce herself before her post because I enjoyed her biography. Thank you, Suzanne, for...
What Are You Reading?
First, the most important question - how are you doing? I hope everyone is staying home, staying safe and healthy. Are you still sane, or relatively so? If you can answer the following question, you're probably okay. What are you reading? Or, is it too hard to...
May 2020 Treasures in My Closet
Who would have thought a month ago that we would all be isolated in our homes? And, while some of us are reading more, I know I'm having a hard time concentrating. There are some excellent May releases coming out, though. If you can't place holds at your local...
Connie Berry, Guest Author, English Country House Mysteries
Today, Connie Berry is my guest author. She's the author of one of my favorite debut mysteries of 2019, A Dream of Death, as well as the follow-up, A Legacy of Murder. She's written to us about a wonderful distraction in this time of unease,...
Distractions
When I said we'd talk about how we're distracting ourselves and staying busy during these unsettling times, I did not mean to talk about unsettled weather. Saturday night, I was playing a game on my iPad when my cell phone went off and the tornado sirens started...