The Murders in Great Diddling by Katarina Bivald

August 12, 2024

Do you remember Katarina Bivald’s debut novel, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend? It came out eight years ago. Somehow, I missed her second novel, Welcome to the Pine Away Motel and Cabins. Don’t make that mistake with her debut mystery, The Murders in...

Rosemary Kaye, On Books and Holidays

November 08, 2021

I’d like to welcome Rosemary Kaye back. She’s our correspondent in Scotland. Before Rosemary talks about books and holidays, just a reminder that holidays in Scotland and England mean vacations in the U.S. I know you would all catch that immediately, but...

A Dangerous Collaboration by Deanna Raybourn

March 25, 2019

I recently mentioned the Veronica Speedwell series, and a fellow librarian said it was one of his favorite series. Yes, mine too. Deanna Raybourn’s adventurous Victorian lepidopterist and her fellow natural scientist, Stoker, are intelligent and witty with...

Murder Takes a Turn by Eric Brown

July 02, 2018

Somehow, I failed to review the fourth book in Eric Brown’s Langham & Dupre mystery series. I read it, but didn’t realize I never reviewed it until I picked up the fifth book, Murder Takes a Turn. There may be a few cliches in these traditional...

Into the Thinnest of Air by Simon R. Green

February 21, 2018

I’m a big fan of Simon R. Green’s Ishmael Jones mysteries. They feature an unconventional sleuth, an alien who crashed landed in England in 1963, and some fifty years later he works for the Organization, protecting humanity from otherworldly threats. He...