A Ghastly Catastrophe by Deanna Raybourn

March 03, 2026

A Ghastly Catastrophe is Deanna Raybourn’s tenth Veronica Speedwell mystery. If you haven’t started this Victorian mystery series, you definitely need to start with A Curious Beginning. Like any series, some are better than others. If you read the...

Kills Well with Others by Deanna Raybourn

March 05, 2025

While I enjoyed Deanna Raybourn’s Kills Well with Others, it wasn’t as fresh as the first book, Killers of a Certain Age. While the idea of four female retired assassins was new at the time of the first book, it seems there’s an abundance of these...

Kills Well with Others by Deanna Raybourn

February 05, 2025

While I enjoyed Deanna Raybourn’s second book featuring her retired spies, Kills Well with Others, I preferred the first in the series, Killers of a Certain Age. It’s not the author’s fault that I’ve read so many books since then that feature...

A Grave Robbery by Deanna Raybourn

March 12, 2024

Deanna Raybourn’s A Grave Robbery, the ninth Veronica Speedwell mystery, might be my favorite in the series. There’s a compelling storyline. The banter between Veronica and Stoker is witty as always. And, there are several new characters introduced, as...

A Sinister Revenge by Deanna Raybourn

March 12, 2023

Deanna Raybourn continues to recognize women’s skills and abilities in Veronica Speedwell’s eighth adventure, A Sinister Revenge. Angry that Veronica didn’t trust him enough to tell him about her past, at the conclusion of An Impossible imposter,...