A Necessary Evil by Abir Mukherjee

April 04, 2018

Abir Mukherjee follows up the success of his debut novel, A Rising Man, with another richly detailed mystery set in 1920s India. And, for all of us who didn’t read the first mystery, there’s no problem in picking up the story of Captain Sam Wyndham and...

Murder at Half Moon Gate by Andrea Penrose

March 27, 2018

An emphasis on change and the Industrial Revolution doesn’t necessarily mean a book is steampunk. Andrea Penrose’s Murder at Half Moon Gate is an intriguing Regency mystery set in London. But, one element in the book is the patent for a mechanical...

Murder in Bloomsbury by D.M. Quincy

February 13, 2018

Last year, D.M. Quincy’s first Atlas Catesby mystery, Murder in Mayfair, was one of my top picks of the year. The second book in the series, Murder in Bloomsbury, has done nothing to disabuse me of the idea that Quincy is a talented author who tells...

Dry Bones by Sally Spencer

February 03, 2018

Sally Spencer’s second Jennie Redhead mystery is a historical mystery set in the world of academia. Set in 1974, the storyline takes private investigator Jennie back to both world wars at St. Luke’s College in Oxford. Dry Bones is the new...

Last Stop in Brooklyn by Lawrence H. Levy

January 13, 2018

Someday I’m going to recruit my sister, Christie, to write book reviews for the blog. She        reads some of the series I haven’t yet had time to pick up, and her comments are perceptive and on target. She liked Lawrence H....