The Secret Staircase by Sheila Connolly

August 24, 2021

Although Sheila Connolly was able to wrap up some of the mysteries behind the lives of Henry and Mary Barton in her third Victorian Village Mystery, The Secret Staircase, she left us with the village of Asheboro, Maryland unfinished, and the house unfinished. In the...

The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny

August 23, 2021

This year, Louise Penny’s latest Armand Gamache novel, The Madness of Crowds, is not only a difficult book to summarize, as hers always are; it’s a difficult book to read. I understand what she is doing with the book, which I can’t really say without...

Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger

August 17, 2021

Lightning Strike is the eighteenth Cork O’Connor mystery by William Kent Krueger, but don’t hesitate to pick it up if you haven’t read the other books. The sensitive, moving book is a prequel, set in the summer of 1963 when Cork is twelve. Krueger...

Thomas Kies, Guest Author

August 16, 2021

I met Tom Kies at a Poisoned Pen book conference just about the time his first book, Random Road, was released. Now, his fourth Geneva Chase Crime Reporter novel, Shadow Hill, is out. His short bio on The Poisoned Pen Bookstore’s website doesn’t do justice...

Cajun Kiss of Death by Ellen Byron

August 09, 2021

Does anyone do community, family and friends any better than Ellen Byron does in her Cajun Country series? February and Valentine’s Day normally mean love and special dinners in Pelican, Louisiana, but a new restaurant in town leads to murder in Byron’s...