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...

Nosy Neighbors by Freya Sampson

March 30, 2024

Although I was given Freya Sampson’s Nosy Neighbors to review as a mystery, there’s very little mystery in this enjoyable novel. It’s set in Chalcot, a small English village, the same setting as Sampson’s The Last Chance Library. I’d...

The Innocents by Bridget Walsh

March 27, 2024

Anyone who enjoyed Bridget Walsh’s first Variety Palace Mystery, The Tumbling Girl, will want to return to Victorian England for the second historical mystery, The Innocents. Readers really should pick up the first book before this one, though, with the return...