Dying Fall by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

January 31, 2022

I only started reading the Inspector Bill Slider police procedurals in the last couple years, but I’m always eager to pick up the latest one. I’ll admit though, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles’ Dying Fall was a little slow to get going. While Slider’s...

The Librarian Always Rings Twice by Marty Wingate

January 30, 2022

The third book in Marty Wingate’s First Edition Library mystery series, The Librarian Always Rings Twice, is an intriguing story that includes an homage to Daphne du Maurier’s Frenchman’s Creek and an enviable collection of Golden Age Mysteries. But,...

Totally Pawstruck by Sofie Ryan

January 29, 2022

I was late coming to Sofie Kelly’s Magical Cats series, and equally late coming to the series she writes under the name Sofie Ryan. Totally Pawstruck is the ninth in the Second Chance Cat mystery series. And, I know I’m to suspend disbelief in reading a...

Find Me by Alafair Burke

January 11, 2022

While NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher isn’t the primary focus of Alafair Burke’s Find Me, some of us who followed her over eight years ago finally have answers, as does Ellie. It takes a complex storyline and a missing woman, but Ellie finally has a...

A Three Book Problem by Vicki Delany

January 10, 2022

Any Sherlock Holmes fan will immediately recognize the reference to him with the title of Vicki Delany’s seventh Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery. Readers of traditional mysteries will be pleased with the country house setting in A Three Book Problem. This...