Murder Off the Page by Con Lehane

November 30, 2019

This is probably blasphemy, but I actually like Mike Cosgrove, the homicide cop in Con Lehane’s latest book better than I like Raymond Ambler, the librarian. Ambler seems to live in his head too much in  Murder Off the Page. As Cosgrove reminds him...

Lights! Camera! Puzzles! by Parnell Hall

March 31, 2019

I don’t usually read Parnell Hall’s Puzzle Lady mysteries, but I’m always attracted to books set in New York City. Cora Felton, The Puzzle Lady, is featured in this one, while her niece, Sherry Carter, really has just a small supporting role. Cora...

Bird, Bath, and Beyond by E.J. Copperman

October 09, 2018

I’ve read some of the other books E.J. Copperman has written as Jeff Cohen and Copperman. I was a big fan of his Comedy Tonight series. I read many of the Haunted Guesthouse books, and both Mysterious Detective stories. But, I love Kay Powell, the “agent...

The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston

May 09, 2018

Caroline Preston, the author of The War Bride’s Scrapbook, actually had an earlier book that was similar. While that book centered on World War II, The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures, was about a young woman in the twenties. As in the later...

Shot in the Dark by Cleo Coyle

April 17, 2018

The seventeenth Coffehouse Mystery by Cleo Coyle, Shot in the Dark, was one of my favorites. It’s timely, and the authors are acutely aware of the relevance of social media in our daily lives. Fortunately, Sandie Herron enjoyed the book, too, because she had...