Death in Dark Glasses by George Bellairs

August 04, 2024

Lately, I’ve been picking up one of George Bellairs’ Inspector Littlejohn mysteries when I need a police procedural fix. Death in Dark Glasses was available through Kindle Unlimited, so I read the seventh in the series. There’s a little of everything...

A Collection of Lies by Connie Berry

June 18, 2024

Connie Berry’s fifth Kate Hamilton mystery, A Collection of Lies, combines some of my favorite elements, a cold case, a contemporary murder investigation, and a drowned village. Kate Hamilton and her new husband, Tom Mallory, aren’t on the usual honeymoon...

Hope to Die by Cara Hunter

June 11, 2024

I can’t praise Cara Hunter’s sixth DI Adam Fawley crime novel enough. Hope to Die is everything a police procedural should be, with a solid team of police officers, a thoughtful lead, and a complex case that contains twists even up until the last chapter....

Death of a Busybody by George Bellairs

May 28, 2024

If Aubrey Hamilton hadn’t reviewed George Bellairs’ Death in Isolation on her blog last week, I never would have discovered Bellairs and his Inspector Littlejohn mysteries. I read the third book in that series, Death of a Busybody. It’s not always...

The Mayfair Dagger by Ava January

April 23, 2024

The cover makes this appear to be an ordinary historical mystery, but I can assure you there is nothing ordinary about Ava January’s The Mayfair Dagger. It’s the funniest historical mystery I’ve read. When the judge refers to the courtroom scene as a...