A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch

December 09, 2025

I’m glad Aubrey Hamilton talked me into reading Charles Finch’s first Charles Lenox mystery, A Beautiful Blue Death. It was a finalist for the 2007 Agatha Award for Best First Novel. I had read a recent one in the series, but I never started at the...

The Shining Skull by Kate Ellis

August 02, 2025

The Shining Skull is the eleventh book in Kate Ellis’ Wesley Peterson Murder Mystery series. If readers like police procedurals that combine a contemporary crime with a historical one, I don’t think they’ll be disappointed. It does take a little...

A Death on Corfu by Emily Sullivan

May 03, 2025

Emily Sullivan has written historical romances, but A Death on Corfu is her first historical mystery. Set in 1898 on Corfu, an island off the coast of Greece, it features Minnie Harper, a widow living there with her two children after the death of her husband four...

Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd

April 08, 2025

It’s 1954, and England is still recovering from World War II. The country is bleak at times, and the food isn’t what it once was. Nora Breen isn’t what she once was either. After thirty years as a nun, Nora leaves the monastery and heads to a seaside...

To Catch a Thief by David Dodge

March 29, 2025

Here’s my confession to go with my review of David Dodge’s To Catch a Thief. I never saw Alfred Hitchcock’s 1956 adaptation with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. And, once I read the book that led to the film, I had a hard time seeing either Grant or...