The Sign of Four Spirits by Vicki Delany

February 11, 2024

I’m a fan of Vicki Delany’s Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mysteries, and her amateur sleuth, Gemma Doyle. Although Gemma is on the periphery of the scene when the murder occurs in The Sign of Four Spirits, she works her unofficial investigation, using her...

To Conjure a Killer by Clea Simon

January 29, 2024

I felt a little melancholy in reviewing Clea Simon’s fourth Witch Cats of Cambridge mystery, To Conjure a Killer. Sandie Herron reviewed the third one, A Cat on the Case, a couple years ago. Sandie should have been here to review the latest one. Becca Colwin...

A Newlywed’s Guide to Fortune and Murder by Dianne Freeman

June 27, 2023

Dianne Freeman’s mysteries in the Countess of Harleigh series are always fun while also instructive in the behavior and expectations of society in Victorian England. She was wise in introducing Frances Hazelton, Countess of Harleigh, as the protagonist, an...

Ashes to Ashes, Crust to Crust by Mindy Quigley

May 29, 2023

I have interesting reactions to Mindy Quigley’s Deep Dish mysteries. I was a little worried I wouldn’t let her protagonist in the first book, Six Feet Deep Dish. I liked Delilah O’Leary, owner of a pizzeria in Geneva Bay, Wisconsin. I also liked the...

Murder at an Irish Castle by Ellie Brannigan

February 05, 2023

I don’t know if this is a compliment or not, but I certainly intended it as one. I found myself so caught up in the relationships and characters in Ellie Brannigan’s Murder at an Irish Castle, that I forgot there had been a suspicious death, and there was...