The Bookshop of Second Chances by jackie Fraser

September 14, 2021

I felt so guilty about The Bookshop of Second Chances that I finally bought my own copy. Because I had so many other books to read, Jackie Fraser’s charming debut novel was sitting on a table with a bookmark stuck at chapter four. I finally picked it up again...

The Loch Ness Papers by Paige Shelton

April 03, 2019

Paige Shelton’s fourth Scottish Bookshop mystery, The Loch Ness Papers, was one of my favorites in the series. Eccentric characters, a very unusual bookshop, and a wedding, all in an atmospheric setting, bring so much to this book. Bookseller Delaney Nichols has...

Scones and Scoundrels by Molly MacRae

January 06, 2018

If you haven’t read Molly MacRae’s first Highland Bookshop mystery, Plaid and Plagiarism, it might take a little time to become familiar with her amateur sleuths in the second book. Scones and Scoundrels takes readers to Inversgail, Scotland, where...

Body on Baker Street by Vicki Delany

September 11, 2017

Vicki Delany follows up the first fun Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery, Elementary, She Read, with the equally delightful Body on Baker Street. Gemma Doyle is becoming one of my favorite amateur sleuths, although I don’t think I’d want to live...

Of Books and Bagpipes by Paige Shelton

April 04, 2017

Who knew a bookstore owner could get in so much trouble? Delaney Nichols, an American now working at The Cracked Spine in Edinburgh, Scotland, rediscovers that her boss, Edwin MacAlister, has a mysterious past. Some of those secrets come to light in Paige...