Striking Range by Margaret Mizushima

September 04, 2021

Although Striking Range is the seventh Timber Creek K-9 mystery, the backstory that Margaret Mizushima presents is so smoothly done that new readers will be able to pick up the storyline, and it just serves as a gentle reminder for those of us who read Hanging Falls a...

Telling Tales by Ann Cleeves

April 24, 2021

All those books in my place, and one Saturday I couldn’t find anything I wanted to read. I really wanted a traditional mystery because I had just watched “Agatha Christie’s England” on PBS. So, I turned to Ann Cleeves and the second Vera...

The Mountains Wild by Sarah Stewart Taylor

June 22, 2020

I don’t remember Sarah Stewart Taylor’s Sweeney St. George mystery series. The 2003 debut, O’ Artful Death was an Agatha nominee for Best First Novel. That series ended in 2006 when life and raising a family intervened. Now, Taylor is launching a new...

Twisted at the Root by Ellen Hart

August 13, 2019

I am not a fan of unreliable narrators in books. Ellen Hart does not feature an unreliable narrator in her latest Jane Lawless mystery, Twisted at the Root. However, I don’t know when I’ve met such a dislikable cast of lying suspects. Rashad May and...

The Shameless by Ace Atkins

July 06, 2019

Ace Atkins’ ninth Quinn Colson novel needs to come with a label, “Warning. To Be Continued…” If there was ever a book with a cliffhanger ending, it’s The Shameless. Twenty years ago, a fifteen-year-old boy, Brandon Taylor, went missing in...