The Mysterious Mr. Badman by W.F. Harvey

December 09, 2023

Originally published in 1934, W.F. Harvey’s The Mysterious Mr. Badman: A Yorkshire Bibliomystery is a recent entry in the British Library Crime Classics. Martin Edwards writes the introduction for this lighthearted, humorous mystery. Athelstan Digby is on...

Murder Most Royal by SJ Bennett

November 27, 2023

I know SJ Bennett intends to go back in Queen Elizabeth’s life for future mysteries in the Her Majesty the Queen Investigates series. There’s just something a little sad about Murder Most Royal, though. While this third book is my favorite in the series so...

Mistletoe and Murder by Connie Berry

October 16, 2023

Mistletoe and Murder is a novella in the Kate Hamilton series by Connie Berry. The author refers to it as book 4.5 in the series since it’s a novella. I enjoyed the story and the return to familiar characters. So, I’ll save my complaint for the end of the...

The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson

October 15, 2023

In one weekend, I read two Christmas novellas that quoted Dickens’ Christmas Carol. Perhaps it’s appropriate that stories of people haunted by the past would quote from that story. It isn’t until part 2 of Peter Swanson’s The Christmas Guest...

One Puzzling Afternoon by Emily Critchley

October 02, 2023

Emily Critchley’s One Puzzling Afternoon is a heartbreaking book. While it’s a mystery, it also tells of Edie Green Havercraft’s dementia, and the reader watches it grow worse in the course of the book. It’s difficult to read at times. In 2018,...