The Unkindness of Ravens by M.E. Hilliard

April 13, 2021

Anyone who read the girl detectives, Nancy Drew or Trixie Belden, will appreciate the opening of M.E. Hilliard’s debut mystery, The Unkindness of Ravens. Hilliard, who went back to school to become a librarian, introduces Greer Hogan, who went back to get a...

The Sign of Death by Callie Hutton

April 12, 2021

Callie Hutton’s The Sign of Death picks up exactly where A Study in Murder leaves off. If you haven’t read the first one, I definitely recommend it before picking up the second Victorian Book Club mystery. The characters in the humorous historical mystery...

The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin

April 07, 2021

It’s not easy to discuss a novel I loved, one that I sobbed over and stayed up to finish. Madeline Martin’s novel of World War II is an homage to books and reading and the power of books. It’s filled with characters I loved, and beloved ones who are...

A Deadly Twist by Jeffrey Siger

April 06, 2021

Greece is just as beautiful as always in the eleventh book in Jeffrey Siger’s Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis mystery. But, as the title A Deadly Twist indicates, it’s just as politically corrupt and dangerous as in the other books in the series. Crime...

The Drummers by Tricia Fields

April 04, 2021

It’s been five years since the last Josie Gray mystery from Tricia Fields, the Hillerman Award-winning author. The Drummers was worth waiting for. It’s a ripped from the headlines, riveting story. It might still be a little too timely for some readers, but...

May Treasures in My Closet

March 31, 2021

If you thought there were a lot of titles coming out in April, wait until you see the May list! There are a number of beach reads on the May list, so those are added to the mysteries and crime fiction that normally appear here. In fact, a couple of the books I’m...