Crescent City Christmas Chaos by Ellen Byron

November 11, 2025

I’m not sure I know any authors who love New Orleans more than Ellen Byron does. Despite a murder or two, and Ricki James-Diaz’ ongoing search for her birthmother, that love for the city, its food, and customs shines through Byron’s fourth book in...

The Body in the Web by Katherine Hall Page

May 28, 2023

There’s an uneasy atmosphere throughout Katherine Hall Page’s 26th Faith Fairchild mystery, The Body in the Web. It isn’t the mystery itself that creates that tension. It’s the fact that we all lived through some of the experiences of this...

The Fragrance of Death by Leslie Karst

July 31, 2022

What do you do if you’re a restaurateur who has lost your sense of smell? In the case of Sally Solari, the amateur sleuth in Leslie Karst’s The Fragrance of Death, she sticks her nose in everyone’s business. It was only a cold, followed by a sinus...

Eclair and Present Danger by Laura Bradford

June 04, 2016

I’ve been talking about Laura Bradford’s new mystery, Eclair and Present Danger, and her new series so long that it feels as if I’ve already reviewed the book. The author of the Amish mysteries launches the Emergency Dessert Squad series with a fun...

Wedding Bel Blues by Maggie McConnon

May 31, 2016

“This place was crazier than I thought, much weirder than I remember, my family something of a bunch of oddballs with a host of secrets that they would go to great lengths to protect.” When Belfast (Bel) McGrath has that realization, she doesn’t know...