Murder in the Grotto by Amy Myers

May 21, 2025

How can a fan of cozy mysteries pass up one that calls itself “A British Stately Home Mystery”? When it involves a ghost hunt and a cafe called the Happy Huffkin Cafe? I was all in for Amy Myers’ Murder in the Grotto. Unfortunately, there was very...

Making a Killing by Cara Hunter

May 20, 2025

Yesterday, Jeff Meyerson made the comment that you should read Cara Hunter’s DI Adam Fawley books in order. Making a Killing, the seventh in the series, proves that. Her very first book, Close to Home, not only introduced Fawley, but also his team and an...

Death at a Highland Wedding by Kelley Armstrong

May 18, 2025

It took me forever to get through Kelley Armstrong’s fourth Rip Through Time novel, Death at a Highland Wedding. I think I had the same problem I have with other series at times. Armstrong took her four sleuths out of Edinburgh, and sent them to the Highlands,...

Mrs. Pargeter’s Package by Simon Brett

May 17, 2025

I haven’t forgotten that I’m reading Bill Crider’s Sheriff Dan Rhodes series, but Simon Brett’s Mrs. Pargeter books are coming in faster through the library system. And, after just reading Emily Sullivan’s A Death on Corfu, it came as a...

Mrs, Presumed Dead by Simon Brett

May 14, 2025

In the second Mrs. Pargeter mystery, Mrs, Presumed Dead, Brett’s perceptive amateur sleuth moves from a seaside retirement home to an executive home. She’s not sure Smithy’s Loam is where she wants to live, but she gives herself six months to...