Reviews + Articles
To Die For by Rosie Grant
Even with that title, Rosie Grant’s book isn’t a mystery. It’s actually called To Die For: A Cookbook of Gravestone Recipes.The stories about the forty recipes do become a little repetitious, but the ideas behind this book are fascinating. A...
Murder Most Haunted by Emma Mason
With the title of Murder Most Haunted, and the knowledge that Emma Mason’s novel is a locked-room mystery, I was looking forward to an exciting story. Instead, I felt the story was slow-paced with dislikable characters, even the protagonist. She spent thirty...
One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune
Well, I won’t make that mistake again. I had never read one of Carley Fortune’s beach reads. I had her latest one, One Golden Summer, home twice from the library, and had to take it back because there were people waiting for it. When I picked it up this...
Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards
Don’t trust anyone. That’s the message given to six people who agree to spend the Christmas holidays playing a mystery game at Midwinter, a village in the extreme north of England. It’s also a warning to readers of Martin Edwards’ first...
What Are You Reading?
I hope you had a good week! We had great porch-sitting weather, and then yesterday we had an all-day rain, just what we needed. Last Thursday was my favorite afternoon of the week, though. My sister, Linda, and I went to Westerville, first to a new-to-us bookstore,...
Dear Mr. Knightley by Katherine Reay
No, Dear Mr Knightley isn’t the book I was struggling to read the other day. After reading over half of that one, I finally gave up. Instead, I moved on to Katherine Reay’s epistolary novel, Dear Mr. Knightley, a contemporary update to Jean...