Murder Off Stage by Mary Miley

September 03, 2023

I hadn’t read Mary Miley’s Roaring Twenties Mysteries, although I have read her Mystic’s Accomplice series, set in Chicago in the same time period, the 1920s. Murder Off Stage is the fifth in her Roaring Twenties series featuring Jessie Beckett, a...

Whispers at Dusk by Heather Graham

July 30, 2023

While I’m a big fan of Heather Graham’s Krewe of Hunters series, and I liked one aspect of the first in her new Blackbird Trilogy, Whispers at Dusk took a turn I don’t like. I like that Blackbird is a new Euro Special Assistance Team, and the FBI...

Best Served Cold by David P. Wagner

July 29, 2023

I do know that the common saying is “Revenge is a dish best served cold.” However, in David P. Wagner’s latest Rick Montoya Italian mystery, as in the other books in the series, so much of the emphasis is on food that the title and jacket cover imply...

The Hangman by Louise Penny

July 22, 2023

Somehow, I missed Louise Penny’s novella, The Hangman, from 2011. It does feature Chief Inspector Gamache and Inspector Beauvoir, along with several of the residents of Three Pines. But, it appears that the novella was originally written for the Good Reads...

The Murder Wheel by Tom Mead

July 19, 2023

Fans of Golden Age mysteries might appreciate Tom Mead’s homage in this sequel to Death and the Conjuror. I didn’t find The Murder Wheel to be quite as good as the first one, though. Edmund Ibbs, a young, idealistic lawyer, was assisting with the Carla...