The Marriage Bureau by Penrose Halson

May 20, 2017

Romance, history, matchmaking, humor. It’s all there in Penrose Halson’s enjoyable account, The Marriage Bureau: The True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London. Before eHarmony and Match.com and Tinder, there was the Marriage Bureau,...

Winners and Give Me an H Giveaway

May 19, 2017

Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. The signed copies of Lori Rader-Day’s The Day I Died will go to Helen T. from Evansville, IN and Chuck B. from Garnet Valley, PA. The books will go out in the mail today. This week, it’s a Give Me an H...

What Are You Reading?

May 18, 2017

It’s Thursday! That means it’s time for What Are You Reading. I look forward to this day every week. I’m just about to start the August release, Continental Crimes, edited by Martin Edwards. That means I can’t tell you anything about it...

Walking on My Grave by Carolyn Hart

May 17, 2017

It’s hard to believe that after thirty years Carolyn Hart is wrapping up the Death on Demand series. Walking on My Grave is the last case for Annie and Max Darling. But, the traditional mystery wraps up perfectly, first with the gathering of suspects,...

Edited Out by E.J. Copperman

May 16, 2017

Although E.J. Copperman’s Edited Out is fun with its dry humor and old movie references, I’d still recommend that readers start with the first in the series, Written Off. It’s easier to suggest that than to explain how Rachel Goldman, a mystery...

My Life with Bob by Pamela Paul

May 15, 2017

Bob = Book of Books. Of course, Pamela Paul, editor of The New York Times Book Review, is a reader. She’s also compulsive, as many of us are, about keeping a list of the books she reads. Paul has kept that list since 1988 when she was a junior in high school....