Headlong by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

March 03, 2019

Headlong is the twenty-first Detective Inspector Bill Slider mystery by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, but the first one I read. As a fan of police procedurals, I’ve been missing an intriguing series. Harrod-Eagles follows Shadow Play with a complex story that requires...

Felicity Carrol and the Perilous Pursuit by Patricia Marcantonio

February 24, 2019

I wish you had all read Patricia Marcantonio’s historical mystery, Felicity Carrol and the Perilous Pursuit. I want to talk about it with someone who finished it! Although it’s set in Victorian England, at the time of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee,...

A Knife in the Fog by Bradley Harper

October 10, 2018

When most of us see the subtitle to Bradley Harper’s debut mystery, A Knife in the Fog, we’ll have a question. Who is Margaret Harkness? The subtitle is “A Mystery Featuring Margaret Harkness & Arthur Conan Doyle”. Margaret Harkness was a...

A Tale of Two Murders by Heather Redmond

August 08, 2018

Heather Redmond launches a new mystery series with Charles Dickens as the amateur sleuth. Dickens, who is working as a journalist, with his eye on a writing career, is a fascinating character in A Tale of Two Murders. It appears that the series will be called...

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...