Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

September 05, 2022

When readers think of senior sleuths nowadays, it’s more likely to be Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club sleuths than Miss Marple. Deanna Raybourn puts a new spin on senior crime fiction. When you think of Killers of a Certain Age, think of the movie...

An Impossible Impostor by Deanna Raybourn

February 15, 2022

Even with the seventh book in the Veronica Speedwell series, Deanna Raybourn is still able to surprise the reader. For that matter, An Impossible Impostor manages to shock the unflappable Veronica as well. In April 1889, Veronica and Stoker, the natural historian,...

A Murderous Relation by Deanna Raybourn

March 10, 2020

Deanna Raybourn brings Veronica Speedwell and Stoker back in an exciting mystery set at the time of the Whitechapel murders, Jack the Ripper. A Murderous Relation has so many connotations in this masterful story of family secrets and masquerades. And, the sexual...

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...

A Treacherous Curse by Deanna Raybourn

January 16, 2018

How often do you read a novel and find it so wonderful that it makes you want to not only reread it, but also read another book? Deanna Raybourn’s third Veronica Speedwell mystery, A Treacherous Curse, moves the characters’ relationship along, while...