The Incident of the Book in the Nighttime by Vicki Delany

January 14, 2025

In the tenth book in Vicki Delany’s Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery series, The Incident of the Book in the Nighttime, the author packs up bookstore owner Gemma Doyle and her friends and sends them to London. You would think West London, Massachusetts would be...

The Booklover’s Library by Madeline Martin

September 23, 2024

In 2021, Madeline Martin’s The Last Bookshop in London was one of the best books I read that year. I just finished her historical novel, The Booklover’s Library, and it’s going on this year’s list. Martin knows how to tell an emotional story of...

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

September 18, 2024

Don’t expect another version of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club with We Solve Murders. In fact, it reminds me more of Deanna Raybourn’s Killers of a Certain Age. We Solve Murders was a little slow in starting, but once Rosie D’Antonio...

What Time the Sexton’s Spade Doth Rust by Alan Bradley

September 04, 2024

It’s been five years since Alan Bradley’s last Flavia de Luce mystery. I was surprised to see his new one, What Time the Sexton’s Spade Doth Rust. I thought he and Flavia had retired, although Flavia has so many fans. Eleven? Twelve? It’s hard...

The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves

August 27, 2024

I reminded you earlier, and I’ll say it again, if you haven’t yet read Ann Cleeves’ The Rising Tide, you might want to pick it up before reading The Dark Wives. This eleventh in the series is a major spoiler for the previous one. In fact, there is a...