Rage by Linda Castillo

July 06, 2025

Tuesday is release day for Linda Castillo’s latest Kate Burkholder mystery, Rage. I’ll be honest. I didn’t find this one near as disturbing and violent as her last one, The Burning. Although the victims were young, naive Amish, I was more upset when...

The Stately Home Murder by Catherine Aird

June 30, 2025

Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan is out of his element when he’s called to investigate a murder in Catherine Aird’s The Stately Home Murder. This mystery is a humorous look inside the home of the Thirteenth Earl of Ornum and his extended family, cousins,...

Kevin’s Corner Annex – A Fondness for Truth by Kim Hays

June 25, 2025

Since I’m only a third through my next book, I decided to share Kevin Tipple’s review of a book by one of our own. A Fondness for Truth is the third in Kim Hays’ Linder and Doratelli series. Thank you, Kevin. Following Pesticide and Sons and...

Henrietta Who? by Catherine Aird

June 23, 2025

I can see why Aubrey Hamilton recommended the Inspector Sloan mysteries to me. Henrietta Who? by Catherine Aird has a clever plot. I never guessed the killer because the plot was so well-developed, and there were too many likely suspects. It was Henry Ford, the...

Mrs. Pargeter’s Plot by Simon Brett

June 14, 2025

While Simon Brett’s fourth Mrs. Pargeter’s book, Mrs. Pargeter’s Pound of Flesh, was my favorite in the series so far, I had a hard time getting through Mrs. Pargeter’s Plot. The entire situation was a little too bizarre for me. Mrs. P is...