Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd

April 08, 2025

It’s 1954, and England is still recovering from World War II. The country is bleak at times, and the food isn’t what it once was. Nora Breen isn’t what she once was either. After thirty years as a nun, Nora leaves the monastery and heads to a seaside...

The Holy Terrors by Simon R. Green

February 17, 2024

British author Simon R. Green launches a Holy Terrors mystery series with the first book, The Holy Terrors. Expect a little humor, wordplay, the paranormal, and death with any new book by Green. It’s an unusual group of six that gather at Stonehaven town hall,...

One Night Two Souls Went Walking by Ellen Cooney

December 06, 2020

Ellen Cooney’s novel, One Night Two Souls Went Walking is not an easy book to read, but it’s beautiful. It’s not easy to read about a chaplain’s loss of faith. How does a chaplain talk about the soul with dying people when she herself has lost...

Murder at Whitby Abbey by Cassandra Clark

August 20, 2019

As a reviewer who gets thrust into the middle of a number of mystery series, I’m getting to be an expert in whether or not readers can pick up a book if they haven’t read previous ones. Murder at Whitby Abbey is the tenth in Cassandra Clark’s...

Death of a Novice by Cora Harrison

June 30, 2018

I’ll admit I could never get into Cora Harrison’s Burren mysteries set in 16th century Ireland. What a difference 400 years makes!  Death of a Novice is the fifth book to feature Reverend Mother Aquinas in 1920s Cork. Now, that’s my period of...