Dead, To Begin With by Bill Crider

July 30, 2017

“Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatsoever about that.” With the opening lines of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol as the inspiration for his new mystery, Bill Crider challenges Sheriff Dan Rhodes. Is Jake Marley’s...

Murder at Chateau sur Mer by Alyssa Maxwell

July 24, 2017

Don’t make the same mistake I did. If Alyssa Maxwell’s Murder at Chateau sur Mer sounds interesting to you, go back and start at the beginning of the series, not with the fifth book. I have an excuse. I was reading it for a review. But, you’ve been...

Shallow Grave by Brian Thiem

July 17, 2017

Brian Thiem truly is one of those authors who writes what he knows. He spent twenty-five years with the Oakland Police Department, working homicide as a detective sergeant, and later as commander of the homicide section. He also served in the Army. Detective Matt...

Calamity at the Continental Club by Colleen J. Shogan

July 15, 2017

I never saw an amateur sleuth so eager to investigate a crime as Congressional staffer Kit Marshall. Colleen J. Shogan’s Calamity at the Continental Club, the third Washington Whodunit, provides D.C.’s buildings for Kit’s playground as she and...

Murder in Mayfair by D.M. Quincy

July 11, 2017

Fans of Georgette Heyer’s Regency romances or Charles Finch’s Charles Lenox mysteries will want to try D.M. Quincy’s debut historical mystery, Murder in Mayfair. The wit, clothing and setting brings Regency London to life in a mystery with satisfying...