Gallows View by Peter Robinson

March 16, 2019

I thought I’d never read one of Peter Robinson’s Alan Banks police procedurals when I picked up Gallows View. However, I quickly had that vague feeling of familiarity when I started the book. Even so, I reread the first in the series because I wanted the...

Read Herring Hunt by V. M. Burns

March 04, 2019

The second Mystery Bookshop mystery by V.M. Burns, Read Herring Hunt, was as delightful as the first. Yes, it’s not difficult to spot the killer in these books. But, Burns’ combination of a current mystery, and the text of a historical cozy is an unusual...

Headlong by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

March 03, 2019

Headlong is the twenty-first Detective Inspector Bill Slider mystery by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, but the first one I read. As a fan of police procedurals, I’ve been missing an intriguing series. Harrod-Eagles follows Shadow Play with a complex story that requires...

Felicity Carrol and the Perilous Pursuit by Patricia Marcantonio

February 24, 2019

I wish you had all read Patricia Marcantonio’s historical mystery, Felicity Carrol and the Perilous Pursuit. I want to talk about it with someone who finished it! Although it’s set in Victorian England, at the time of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee,...

Murder in the Dark by Simon R. Green

November 30, 2018

If you haven’t yet discovered Simon R. Green’s Ishmael Jones mysteries, Murder in the Dark is a good place to start. It’s not quite as graphically violent as some of the earlier ones in the series. In fact, this one is reminiscent of Agatha...