Reviews + Articles
What Are You Reading?
What are you reading this week? Are you reading? Even though I was home yesterday because we have icy, slick roads and more expected during evening hours, I didn't read much. I spent the entire day riveted to the impeachment hearings. No matter what happens, these...
A Tourist’s Guide to Murder by V.M. Burns
It's been a few years since I read one of the books in V.M. Burns' Mystery Bookshop series. A Tourist's Guide to Murder reminds me how much I enjoy the cast and the parallel storylines in these books. Samantha Washington, owner of Market Street Mysteries Bookstore, is...
A Simple Murder by Linda Castillo
If you're expecting the latest Kate Burkholder novel by Linda Castillo, you're in for a surprise. A Simple Murder is a story collection featuring the police chief in Painters Mill, Ohio. Or maybe I should just say it features Kate Burkholder. One story introduces a...
When Harry Met Minnie by Martha Teichner
When Martha Teichner says, "Humor takes courage", she could also say this book takes courage. It took courage to write When Harry Met Minnie, and a type of courage to read the book, knowing this is a nonfiction book that involves death and tears. Teichner certainly...
The Lost Manuscript by Cathy Bonidan
Who do you give credit to when a novel in translation is beautiful and moving? Did I read Cathy Bonidan's The Lost Manuscript? How much input did the translator, Emma Ramadan, have? I'll never know, but kudos to both of them for the feelings this epistolary novel...
Last Seen Wearing by Hillary Waugh
While I enjoyed Hillary Waugh's police procedural, Last Seen Wearing, I appreciated the introduction to the book even more. Leslie S. Klinger wrote the introduction and notes to this latest addition to the Library of Congress Crime Classics series. Klinger says this...