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....

The Wolf Tree by Laura McCluskey

February 11, 2025

I’m always so pleased when a debut novel lives up to my expectations. With its isolation and brooding atmosphere, loneliness and anger, Laura McCluskey’s The Wolf Tree is reminiscent of the first Shetland Island mystery by Ann Cleeves, Raven Black. But,...

Trouble Island by Sharon Short

December 02, 2024

I mentioned Trouble Island in December’s Treasures in My Closet post. I said I picked it up because it was set on an island in Lake Erie, and my hometown is on that lake. I also knew Sharon Short also writes as Jess Montgomery As Montgomery, she writes the...

Death at a Scottish Christmas by Lucy Connelly

October 23, 2024

The third Scottish Isle mystery by Lucy Connelly, Death at a Scottish Christmas, didn’t quite live up to the earlier ones, in my opinion. While I loved the concept, there were too many other elements in the story. Dr. Emilia McRoy never had a month off when she...

Nonna Maria and the Case of the Missing Bride by Lorenzo Carcaterra

June 29, 2022

In conversation, I’ve said to a few friends that there haven’t been a lot of mysteries that stood out to me this year. Lorenzo Carcaterra remedied that with his quiet mystery, Nonna Maria and the Case of the Missing Bride. He takes readers to Ischia, an...