To Die in Tuscany by David P. Wagner

May 15, 2021

David P. Wagner’s seventh Rick Montoya Italian Mystery, To Die in Tuscany, finds the American interpreter caught up in murder again. However, it also finds him dining on sumptuous food and exploring the art treasures of Urbino. So, whether you read Wagner for...

Maggie Finds Her Muse by Dee Ernst

May 12, 2021

I would have missed this book if my friend Kaye Wilkinson Barley hadn’t mentioned it. But, then, Kaye’s read everything that has come out in recent years set in Paris. Dee Ernst’s romantic comedy, Maggie Finds Her Muse, hit all the right notes for...

The Ghost and the Haunted Portrait by Cleo Coyle

May 11, 2021

Jack Shepard is back! Let’s face it. While the blurb says “Bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure and her gumshoe ghost team up”, many of us who read Cleo Coyle’s Haunted Bookshop mysteries love Jack, the ghost of a private investigator...

City of Dark Corners by Jon Talton

May 10, 2021

I loved Jon Talton’s standalone, City of Dark Corners. Before you jump to get it at your local library or bookstore, though, you need to know it’s set in Phoenix and the Valley of the Sun in 1933. I lived in the Valley for 8 1/2 years, and I recognize the...

Thirty-One Bones by Morgan Cry

May 09, 2021

Maybe it’s my dark sense of humor, but Mother’s Day seems an appropriate day to post the review of a book in which a dead mother leaves behind a mess for her estranged daughter. Gordon Brown, writing as Morgan Cry, takes readers to Spain’s Costa...

The Company by Sally Spencer

May 08, 2021

Sally Spencer made an interesting narration choice in The Company. Part of the book covers the police investigation of a car “accident”, while one of the survivors, a man who was hospitalized with mental problems, is responsible for other aspects of the...