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Kills Well with Others by Deanna Raybourn

While I enjoyed Deanna Raybourn's Kills Well with Others, it wasn't as fresh as the first book, Killers of a Certain Age. While the idea of four female retired assassins was new at the time of the first book, it seems there's an abundance of these titles now. For...

Hang on St. Christopher by Adrian McKinty

I discovered Adrian McKinty's Sean Duffy books long before The Chain made him popular worldwide. Hang on St. Christopher is another intriguing book set in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. If Detective Inspector Sean Duffy can hang on for almost two years,...

If It Isn’t One Thing… by Steven F. Havill

If you like small town police procedurals, but haven't been reading Steven F. Havill's Posadas County Mysteries, you're missing out. If It Isn't One Thing... is a carefully plotted mystery featuring Undersheriff Estelle Reyes Guzman and her understaffed team. As...

The Girl from Greenwich Street by Lauren Willig

I don't know when I read a historical mystery as intriguing as Lauren Willig's The Girl from Greenwich Street. Just before Christmas in 1789, Elma Sands walked out of her cousin's boarding house in New York City, and was not seen again. Her cousins thought she was...

April Treasures in My Closet

I better start reading right now if I want to at least get to the eight books that will be released on April 1. And, I know there are plenty of other April releases out there that aren't "in my closet". What April releases are you anticipating? I'll start with...

Andrew Welsh-Huggins’ Favorites of 2024

Some of us read Andrew Welsh-Huggins' January release, The Mailman. He's also the author of the Andy Hayes PI novels, standalones, and short stories. Today, he's sharing his ten favorite books read in 2024, in the order he read them. He said maybe half of these...