One Upon a Tome by Oliver Darkshire

March 22, 2023

Eccentric doesn’t even begin to describe the people and book collections of Sotheran’s, an antiquarian bookstore in London. Founded in 1761, they found a writer to tell their story, their own apprentice, Oliver Darkshire. Once Upon a Tome: The...

These Names Make Clues by E.C.R. Lorac

February 27, 2023

E.C.R. Lorac provides clues right there in the title of her Golden Age mystery, These Names Make Clues, if you’re clever enough to pick up on them. I wasn’t. Fortunately, Chief Inspector Macdonald from Scotland Yard was on the scene when one of the murders...

A Killing of Innocents by Deborah Crombie

February 07, 2023

It has been several years since fans have been able to catch up with Duncan Kincaid, Gemma James, their police teams, and their family. A Killing of Innocents, the nineteenth in the series, doesn’t disappoint. Detective Sergeant Duncan Kincaid noticed the young...

Of Manners and Murder by Anastasia Hastings

February 04, 2023

It seems this is the season for “Agony Aunt” mysteries. Although Mary Winters’ March release, Murder in Postscript is set twenty years earlier than Anastasia Hastings’ Of Manners and Murder, both books feature young women tasked with writing...

Murder by Matchlight by E.C.R. Lorac

January 30, 2023

Every once in a while, I pick up one of E.C.R. Lorac’s mysteries, and Martin Edwards’ introductions just add to the enjoyment. Murder By Matchlight is set in London during World War II. As Edwards’ says, it’s not only an intriguing mystery, but...