Countdown by Frederick Ramsay

July 09, 2018

Following Frederick Ramsay’s death in 2017, Dana Stabenow polished the manuscript for his last mystery, Countdown. It’s eight years after Jesse Sutherlin’s return home to Virginia from the First World War, the story told in Copper Kettle. Jesse...

Death of a Novice by Cora Harrison

June 30, 2018

I’ll admit I could never get into Cora Harrison’s Burren mysteries set in 16th century Ireland. What a difference 400 years makes!  Death of a Novice is the fifth book to feature Reverend Mother Aquinas in 1920s Cork. Now, that’s my period of...

A Shocking Assassination by Cora Harrison

May 27, 2018

Cora Harrison’s Reverend Mother series is my favorite series discovery this year. I’m addicted to these mysteries set in the 1920s in Cork, Ireland, a city still torn by violence and politics.A Shocking Assassination puts Reverend Mother Aquinas right on...

No Cure for the Dead by Christine Trent

May 06, 2018

Mysteries featuring historical figures turned amateur sleuths are as popular as ever. Now, Florence Nightingale is forced to investigate the death of a nurse in Christine Trent’s historical mystery, No Cure for the Dead. Trent, who writes the Lady of Ashes...

A Death of No Importance by Mariah Fredericks

April 08, 2018

If you like compelling historical mysteries that portray social and class inequities, you might want to try Mariah Fredericks’ A Death of No Importance. Set during the Gilded Age, the story includes mining disasters, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire,...