The Hidden Corpse by Debra Sennefelder

March 30, 2019

Last March, I reviewed Debra Sennefelder’s first Food Blogger mystery, The Uninvited Corpse. http://bit.ly/2JsXEtx. I said it was a promising start, with an amateur sleuth with an unusual career as a food blogger. I was very enthusiastic about the...

Orchestrated Death by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

March 27, 2019

I didn’t know how the first Bill Slider mystery would hold up. I hadn’t read any of the books in the series when I received the most recent one, Headlong, for review. I’m a fan of police procedurals, and this book introduced me to a group of...

The Overnight Kidnapper by Andrea Camilleri

March 26, 2019

Whether it’s the actual writing or the translation by Stephen Sartarelli, the twenty-third book in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series, The Overnight Kidnapper, has enough humor involving the office staff at the police department to make it a Sicilian...

A Dangerous Collaboration by Deanna Raybourn

March 25, 2019

I recently mentioned the Veronica Speedwell series, and a fellow librarian said it was one of his favorite series. Yes, mine too. Deanna Raybourn’s adventurous Victorian lepidopterist and her fellow natural scientist, Stoker, are intelligent and witty with...

Trouble on the Books by Essie Lang

March 24, 2019

I love the setting of Essie Lang’s new mystery and series. Trouble on the Books is a Castle Bookshop Mystery. Bayside Books is located in Alexandria Bay in upstate New York. The second location for the store is in Blye Castle on Blye Island. The setting is more...