Writers and Liars by Carol Goodman

July 26, 2025

So many authors put their own twist on Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. In Writers and Liars, Carol Goodman sets her novel on a Greek Island, brings in a group of authors who were there fifteen years earlier, and provides a Greek mythology background....

Mrs. Pargeter’s Package by Simon Brett

May 17, 2025

I haven’t forgotten that I’m reading Bill Crider’s Sheriff Dan Rhodes series, but Simon Brett’s Mrs. Pargeter books are coming in faster through the library system. And, after just reading Emily Sullivan’s A Death on Corfu, it came as a...

Not Dead Yet by Jeffrey Siger

March 31, 2025

I’ve been reading Jeffrey Siger’s Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis mysteries since the very beginning with Murder in Mykonos, a 2008 release. Set in Greece, these outstanding police procedurals feature Greek politics and culture. Best of all, though, is the...

At Any Cost by Jeffrey Siger

February 06, 2024

Once again, Jeffrey Siger taps into the world’s politics in order to scare us to death. I’ll admit, I find some of the metaverse discussions tedious in At Any Cost. My eyes glazed over. But, the ending was as fast-paced and engrossing as always. And, of...

The Attraction Distraction by Jenn McKinlay

November 22, 2022

Let’s start the review of Jenn McKinlay’s romcom, The Attraction Distraction, by saying that cover has absolutely nothing to do with the storyline, except there’s a man and a woman in the book. There are serious Classics scholars on a hunt for a...