Eclair and Present Danger by Laura Bradford

June 04, 2016

I’ve been talking about Laura Bradford’s new mystery, Eclair and Present Danger, and her new series so long that it feels as if I’ve already reviewed the book. The author of the Amish mysteries launches the Emergency Dessert Squad series with a fun...

Wedding Bel Blues by Maggie McConnon

May 31, 2016

“This place was crazier than I thought, much weirder than I remember, my family something of a bunch of oddballs with a host of secrets that they would go to great lengths to protect.” When Belfast (Bel) McGrath has that realization, she doesn’t know...

The Highwayman by Craig Johnson

May 21, 2016

Longmire. Need I say more? Thanks to Jen Forbus, I’ve been a fan of Craig Johnson’s writings for years. I’m particularly fond of his novellas and short stories. Every word is precisely chosen to set the tone, the atmosphere, to build a...

Boar Island by Nevada Barr

May 18, 2016

Obsession. Nevada Barr combines unlikely obsessions in a novel that finds Anna Pigeon in Acadia National Park. She’s surrounded by friends, but she still manages to find herself in the middle of trouble in Barr’s latest book, Boar Island. When...

Sayonara SLAM by Naomi Hirahara

May 13, 2016

What a fascinating character! I had never read one of Naomi Hirahara’s mysteries featuring Mas Arai, the almost retired gardner who is nearing eighty. The mystery in Sayonara SLAM was interesting. But, the true mystery revealed, and, never completely revealed...