A Study in Murder by Callie Hutton

July 05, 2020

Whether you’re a fan of Victorian mysteries or atmospheric fiction set in that time period, you might want to try Callie Hutton’s A Study in Murder, the first in her new Victorian Book Club mystery series. Hutton has written bestselling historical...

The Finders by Jeffrey B. Burton

June 29, 2020

When Margaret Mizushima and Paula Munier blurb a book, it’s natural to expect a mystery featuring a dog. You’d be right with The Finders, Jeffrey B. Burton’s action-packed series debut. It’s an intense, sometimes graphic, novel about a...

A Batter of Life and Death by Ellie Alexander

June 09, 2020

When I read the first of Ellie Alexander’s Bakeshop mysteries, Meet Your Baker, I commented that the amateur sleuth, Jules Capshaw, was too impulsive, ready to fling herself into danger. It appears that Jules learned her lesson after ending up with a scar after...

The Clutter Corpse by Simon Brett

June 03, 2020

Simon Brett, author of the Fathering and Charles Paris mysteries, launches a new series of decluttering mysteries with The Clutter Corpse. Ellen Curtis owns a decluttering business in southern England. SpaceWoman helps people declutter their homes, and most of...

Meet Your Baker by Ellie Alexander

May 30, 2020

One of my librarian friends has been recommending Ellie Alexander’s Bakeshop mysteries to me for a couple years. I finally picked up the first in the series because I was so satisfied with the forthcoming book in Alexander’s Sloan Krause series. I like the...