The Night Woods by Paula Munier

October 07, 2024

Paula Munier’s Mercy Carr mysteries are some of my favorites. Although The Night Woods is the sixth in the series, following my favorite, Home at Night, it can stand alone. It’s another complex story with literary themes woven into it. This time, Munier...

Jane Austen’s Lost Letters by Jane K. Cleland

December 14, 2021

Jane Austen’s Lost Letters is the fourteenth Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery by Jane K. Cleland. I’ve read all of them, beginning with Consigned to Death in 2006. I introduced my sisters to the series because the combination of Josie Prescott’s...

Hidden Treasure by Jane K. Cleland

December 08, 2020

I always look forward to the annual Josie Prescott Antiques mystery by Jane K. Cleland. Over the course of the series, we’ve watched Josie grow from an insecure young woman in a strange community to a confident woman, a successful businesswoman, owner of...

Rag and Bone by Joe Clifford

May 27, 2019

I’ll just say this right now. Jay Porter, the protagonist in Joe Clifford’s series, has to be one of the sorriest people in a mystery series. He’s alienated a number of friends, lost a business, lost a wife and son, all because he’s obsessed...

Good Riddance by Elinor Lipman

February 10, 2019

Last month, there was all kinds of chatter on the Internet about Marie Kondo’s book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up when word went around that she suggested throwing out books. The conversations were quite funny. Novelist Elinor Lipman anticipates what...