Slight Mourning by Catherine Aird

November 19, 2025

The sixth book in Catherine Aird’s Calleshire Chronicles, Slight Mourning, was not one of my favorites. Despite one funny report about a regimental reunion at a hotel, this mystery was slow-paced, in fact, plodding. After a dinner party at his home, Bill Fent...

His Burial Too by Catherine Aird

August 09, 2025

Nero Wolfe has his orchids. Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan has his roses. There he is, in the middle of a complicated case in Catherine Aird’s His Burial Too, and he’s worried that his Princess Grace rose will peak before a show on Saturday. Little things...

A Late Phoenix by Catherine Aird

July 19, 2025

I really liked Catherine Aird’s fourth Sloan and Crosby mystery, A Late Phoenix, with its cold case aspect and the connections to World War II. And, in each book, Aird adds a little bit more about Sloan’s personal life. Not only does he have a passion for...

The Stately Home Murder by Catherine Aird

June 30, 2025

Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan is out of his element when he’s called to investigate a murder in Catherine Aird’s The Stately Home Murder. This mystery is a humorous look inside the home of the Thirteenth Earl of Ornum and his extended family, cousins,...

Henrietta Who? by Catherine Aird

June 23, 2025

I can see why Aubrey Hamilton recommended the Inspector Sloan mysteries to me. Henrietta Who? by Catherine Aird has a clever plot. I never guessed the killer because the plot was so well-developed, and there were too many likely suspects. It was Henry Ford, the...