Reviews + Articles
The Good Byline by Jill Orr
Bless her heart. Riley Ellison is the talk of her hometown in Virginia. She’s also the amateur sleuth in Jill Orr’s fun debut mystery, The Good Byline. It’s a mystery for readers who enjoy quirky characters in a Janet Evanovich-style caper. When...
The Day I Died by Lori Rader-Day
If you have a secret, and someone threatens to reveal it, would it feel “like the world was closing in”? Lori Rader-Day, award-winning author of The Black Hour and Little Pretty Things, takes readers into the life of a flawed, determined character...
Murder in All Honour by Anne Cleeland
Doyle and Acton are back! Anne Cleeland’s latest mystery, Murder in All Honour, is not a jumping off point for the series. Her stories are as interconnected as Louise Penny’s, and readers need to have read earlier ones to keep the characters straight,...
Date with Death by Julia Chapman
The title of Julia Chapman’s debut mystery, Date with Death, doesn’t do it justice. Neither does the book jacket. The title and cover make it appear to be a cozy mystery. It is not. It’s a traditional mystery. It’s meaty with great...
Winners and a British Mystery Giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Candy K. from Erie, PA won The Silence of the Flans by Laura Bradford. Celia F. from Aspen, CO won Susan Wittig Albert’s Blood Orange. The books will go out in the mail today. This week, we’re going to...
What Are You Reading?
Actually, I just finished a book, a marvelous book that made me nostalgic for the years when I was an adolescent reader. Author Ann Hood is only a few months older than me, so some of the books that she read and loved were ones I read around the same age. She talks...