Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons by James Lovegrove

October 11, 2020

James Lovegrove is the author of new Sherlock Holmes adventures, the Lovecraft/Doyle inspired Cthulhu Casebooks, and tie-in fiction for the Firefly TV series and movie, along with other novels. His latest, Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons, is a...

A Pretty Deceit by Anna Lee Huber

October 06, 2020

Anna Lee Huber’s fourth Verity Kent mystery, A Pretty Deceit, takes place just weeks after Penny for Your Secrets. This historical series is definitely one that invites readers to read it in order. Those who haven’t read previous books might be a...

The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves

September 28, 2020

While Ann Cleeves always makes a reader feel sympathy for the victim, in this latest Vera Stanhope novel, The Darkest Evening, it was Vera who moved me. She has never seemed so vulnerable, so lonely. Even her team recognized that this case was personal for Vera,...

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

September 21, 2020

“Killing someone is easy. hiding the body, now, that’s usually the hard part.” It’s even harder to keep that killing a secret when The Thursday Murder Club takes an interest. In his funny, sometimes poignant debut mystery, Richard Osman...

The Killings at Kingfisher Hall by Sophie Hannah

September 13, 2020

I love the cover of Sophie Hannah’s fourth Hercule Poirot mystery, The Killings at Kingfisher Hall. However, I’m not the target audience. I found it tedious to spend the first five chapters of the book traveling with Poirot on a bus from London to Surrey....