The Murder at World’s End by Ross Montgomery

January 17, 2026

Ross Montgomery capitalizes on world fears in 1910 in his locked-room mystery, The Murder at World’s End. Montgomery, who normally writes children’s books, decided to write an adult mystery during lock-down for COVID. He successfully introduces a fun new...

Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library by Amanda Chapman

September 05, 2025

Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library by Amanda Chapman was delightful. It’s filled with chapter headings and quotes from Agatha Christie novels. I loved Tory Van Dyne and her friends. Most of all I loved Agatha Christie and eleven-year-old Maired Butler....

The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective by Jo Nichols

August 22, 2025

I don’t know if I’d say the ending of The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective by Jo Nichols is ambiguous or sort of a “Choose Your Own Ending”. But, it’s an unusual cozy mystery of found family, a book filled with misfits and lost souls....

Booked for Revenge by Karen Rose Smith

April 29, 2025

Well, there’s something I seldom do. I read Booked for Revenge by Karen Rose Smith, the second book in a spin-off series, and I didn’t read the first book or the Daisy’s Tea Garden series where this came from. However, this cozy mystery works, with a...

What Time the Sexton’s Spade Doth Rust by Alan Bradley

September 04, 2024

It’s been five years since Alan Bradley’s last Flavia de Luce mystery. I was surprised to see his new one, What Time the Sexton’s Spade Doth Rust. I thought he and Flavia had retired, although Flavia has so many fans. Eleven? Twelve? It’s hard...