Hidden Nature by Nora Roberts

May 27, 2025

Once again, a master turns in an addicting book. Hidden Nature features Sloan Cooper, a Natural Resources Police officer in Maryland who survives a shooting, only to find herself investigating what appears to be a case of disappearing people and a serial killer. Sloan...

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

April 25, 2025

I can’t recommend Virginia Evans’ novel, The Correspondent, highly enough. If you like epistolary novels with a depth of character, meet Sybil Van Antwerp. Sybil is retired from practicing law. She’s divorced, a mother and grandmother who lives in...

The Secret Staircase by Sheila Connolly

August 24, 2021

Although Sheila Connolly was able to wrap up some of the mysteries behind the lives of Henry and Mary Barton in her third Victorian Village Mystery, The Secret Staircase, she left us with the village of Asheboro, Maryland unfinished, and the house unfinished. In the...

Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler

April 15, 2020

Anne Tyler’s books feel as if they’re stories of the lives of ordinary people, with reflections of all of our lives. That seems to be exactly what her latest novel,  Redhead by the Side of the Road is. It’s the story of one ordinary man who...

Killer in the Carriage House by Sheila Connolly

July 07, 2019

Although Kate Hamilton, the amateur sleuth in Killer in the Carriage House, comes across as distracted, I was wondering if the author, Sheila Connolly, was distracted when she wrote this latest mystery. I know I had an ARC, so I won’t mention errors I found in...