Margaret Lucke, Guest Author

July 20, 2020

What a pleasure! I love it when an author writes a guest post about libraries. I think you’ll enjoy Margaret Lucke’s piece. Let me introduce you to the author of the Claire Scanlan Haunted House books. Margaret Lucke flings words around in the San...

Murder Off the Page by Con Lehane

November 30, 2019

This is probably blasphemy, but I actually like Mike Cosgrove, the homicide cop in Con Lehane’s latest book better than I like Raymond Ambler, the librarian. Ambler seems to live in his head too much in  Murder Off the Page. As Cosgrove reminds him...

The Bodies in the Library by Marty Wingate

October 09, 2019

Marty Wingate kicks off a new cozy series, The First Edition Library Mysteries, with The Bodies in the Library. To be honest, I preferred the police over the amateur sleuth, though. For a change in a debut cozy, the investigating police officers are kind and...

Roger Wall, Guest Author

May 14, 2019

When Wiley Saichek of Saichek Publicity asks if I’ll host a guest author, he usually suggests that the author write about libraries. Wiley knows how much I appreciate those types of posts. Today, I’m hosting author Roger Wall, whose novel,...

Something Read, Something Dead by Eva Gates

March 12, 2019

I’ll admit I dropped Eva Gates’ cozy Lighthouse Library Mystery series for a little while. Perhaps it was just my own over-indulgence in cozy mysteries right then. But, Something Read, Something Dead was an enjoyable mystery. And, Lucy Richardson...