The Marriage Bureau by Penrose Halson

May 20, 2017

Romance, history, matchmaking, humor. It’s all there in Penrose Halson’s enjoyable account, The Marriage Bureau: The True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London. Before eHarmony and Match.com and Tinder, there was the Marriage Bureau,...

Souls of Men by A. R. Ashworth

April 15, 2017

A. R. Ashworth’s debut police procedural, Souls of Men, is not for the weak of heart. The crimes are vicious. The villains are true villains. And, his lead detective, Elaine Hope, is in for the fight of her life in this book. Detective Inspector Elaine Hope is...

Murder in All Honour by Anne Cleeland

April 09, 2017

Doyle and Acton are back! Anne Cleeland’s latest mystery, Murder in All Honour, is not a jumping off point for the series. Her stories are as interconnected as Louise Penny’s, and readers need to have read earlier ones to keep the characters straight, and...

Copy Cap Murder by Jenn McKinlay

January 25, 2016

It’s only appropriate to celebrate Jenn McKinlay’s latest Hat Shop Mystery, Copy Cap Murder, with fireworks. It’s a mystery that starts with Guy Fawkes Day and murder, but also serves up a healthy portion of romantic fireworks. While Scarlett Parker,...

Murder in Hindsight by Anne Cleeland

January 06, 2016

When I told Kaye Wilkinson Barley that I had just finished Anne Cleeland’s Murder in Hindsight, I said, “sigh”, and she agreed. I’ve finished all three of the novels about Doyle and Acton, and it’s going to be hard to let the characters...