The Ghosts of Paris by Tara Moss

June 08, 2022

Every time I read a later book in a series, I regret that I didn’t start with the first one. But, I picked up The Ghosts of Paris by Tara Moss to review for a journal. I just wish I’d read The War Widow, the first Billie Walker mystery, before reading this...

And By Fire by Evie Hawtrey

May 09, 2022

Three hundred fifty years separate two pairs of detectives, but they’re linked more closely than either would suspect in Evie Hawtrey’s intriguing mystery, And By Fire. While I found the contemporary police procedural more fascinating, the storyline that...

Dying Fall by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

January 31, 2022

I only started reading the Inspector Bill Slider police procedurals in the last couple years, but I’m always eager to pick up the latest one. I’ll admit though, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles’ Dying Fall was a little slow to get going. While Slider’s...

Observations by Gaslight by Lyndsay Faye

December 05, 2021

I will never pretend to be an expert on Sherlock Holmes. I did read all the stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but that doesn’t mean I know the canon. And, I haven’t read many of the pastiches. But, I loved what Lyndsay Faye did with the stories in...