Winners and Contest News

September 20, 2017

Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. The copies of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express will go to Steve G. from Ashland, OH and Karen R. from Katy, TX. I’m sending them out today. And, if you haven’t read the book, you...

A Conspiracy in Belgravia by Sherry Thomas

September 20, 2017

Somewhere in a pile, I have A Study in Scarlet Women, the first Lady Sherlock book by Sherry Thomas. But, I started it, and didn’t care for the predicament Charlotte Holmes was in. However, when I finished A Conspiracy in Belgravia, I could see why others liked...

Murderous Mistral by Cay Rademacher

September 19, 2017

Capitaine Roger Blanc blows into Provence, and fans flames in the same way the dangerous mistral winds do in the summer. Cay Rademacher’s Murderous Mistral, translated from the German by Peter Millar, loses nothing in the translation. Blanc is a fascinating...

Call Down the Hawk by Sheila Simonson

September 18, 2017

After a four year absence, Sheila Simonson returns to the Columbia River Gorge area for her latest Latouche County mystery, Call Down the Hawk. It’s a reflective story, told from multiple viewpoints, about the tragic deaths of two domineering men who...

The Countess of Prague by Stephen Weeks

September 17, 2017

Are you ready to settle in for a planned mystery series of ten books? Author Stephen Weeks, and his publisher, Poisoned Pen Press, plan to cover the years 1904-1914 in a series to feature The Countess of Prague, Beatrice von Falklenburg, known as Trixie. Her courage,...

Let the Dead Bury the Dead by David Carlson

September 16, 2017

Here I am, catching a series again after the first one. But, I’m satisfied that David Carlson’s second mystery, Let the Dead Bury the Dead, is an excellent introduction to the series and the two sleuths. Meet Christopher Worthy, a Detroit police...