Purple Palette for Murder by R.J. Harlick

November 11, 2017

If you haven’t read R.J. Harlick’s previous Meg Harris mysteries, don’t worry about it. You can still pick up the vivid, intense eighth book in the series, Purple Palette for Murder. Harris takes readers away to the Canadian wilderness with all of...

Glass Houses by Louise Penny

August 28, 2017

There are all kinds of stories about heroes, stories that say when others are running away, heroes run toward trouble. That’s the best way I know to summarize Louise Penny’s latest book, Glass Houses, and her lead character, Armand Gamache. Because of...

Elle Wild, Guest Author

October 14, 2016

“As winter closes in and the roads snow over in Dawson City, Yukon, newly arrived journalist Jo Silver investigates the dubious suicide of a local politician and quickly discovers that not everything in the sleepy tourist town is what it seems. Before long, law...

Unreasonable Doubt by Vicki Delany

February 03, 2016

I read most of Vicki Delany’s mystery series, but the Constable Molly Smith mystery series set in Trafalgar, British Columbia is my favorite. The police procedurals are set in a fascinating town with a mixture of tourists, hippies who moved there during the...

The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny

August 24, 2015

Every year it becomes harder to summarize Louise Penny’s exceptional books. While How the Light Gets In may have represented a culmination of Chief Inspector Armand Gamache’s fight against good and evil, even in retirement in Three Pines, he continues to...