The Shadow of Memory by Connie Berry

May 10, 2022

While I liked Connie Berry’s The Art of Betrayal, I loved the fourth in her Kate Hamilton series, The Shadow of Memory. The traditional mystery is carefully plotted, and all the pieces fit together beautifully. The characters, the antiques, and the setting...

Unnatural Ends by Christopher Huang

May 08, 2022

What a perfect cover for Christopher Huang’s Unnatural Ends. It’s a complex puzzle, a trap set in a North Yorkshire estate in 1921. But, the trap was planned years earlier. In April 1921, the three children of Sir Lawrence Linwood return home to Linwood...

The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood

May 02, 2022

If you enjoyed Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club, you’ll want to try Robert Thorogood’s The Marlow Murder Club. They’re nothing at all alike. The connection comes with the amateur sleuths who are often overlooked by other people. Then...

All the Queen’s Men by S.J. Bennett

March 07, 2022

Sometimes, the second book in s series doesn’t live up to the first one. That’s not the case with S.J. Bennett’s second Her Majesty the Queen Investigates mystery, All the Queen’s Men. For some reason, I found the mystery and the characters...

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,...