Reviews + Articles
What Are You Reading?
Everyone doing okay, post-vaccine or without vaccines? I hope everyone is enjoying an occasional beautiful spring day. And, I hope you're all enjoying a good book or two! I won't really talk much about Sarah Stewart Taylor's A Distant Grave. I'm halfway through this...
M.E. Hilliard, an Author Interview
Yesterday, I reviewed M.E. Hilliard's debut mystery, The Unkindness of Ravens. I'm so pleased to share an interview with you now. Hilliard was kind enough to answer questions for us. Thank you, M.E. M.E., who were you before you turned to a life of crime? In other...
The Unkindness of Ravens by M.E. Hilliard
Anyone who read the girl detectives, Nancy Drew or Trixie Belden, will appreciate the opening of M.E. Hilliard's debut mystery, The Unkindness of Ravens. Hilliard, who went back to school to become a librarian, introduces Greer Hogan, who went back to get a degree in...
The Sign of Death by Callie Hutton
Callie Hutton's The Sign of Death picks up exactly where A Study in Murder leaves off. If you haven't read the first one, I definitely recommend it before picking up the second Victorian Book Club mystery. The characters in the humorous historical mystery are...
Ocean Prey by John Sandford
Here's my overall evaluation of John Sandford's Ocean Prey. Too much technical language involving diving and not enough Virgil Flowers. However, I loved Sandford's Author's Note. He talks about a couple mistakes he made about guns in several of his books. He knows gun...
Recap – Random Road by Thomas Kies
Thomas Kies' first Geneva Chase mystery, Random Road, came out in 2017. There have been two others in the series since, and a fourth, Shadow Hill, is scheduled for release on August 10. After Sourcebooks bought Poisoned Pen Press, they've been reintroducing readers to...