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...

The Murder Book by Lissa Marie Redmond

February 02, 2019

Lissa Marie Redmond, a retired cold case detective for the Buffalo Police Dept., returns with the second book in her Cold Case Investigation series, The Murder Book. Police detective Lauren Riley, who made some bad decisions in the first book, A Cold Day in Hell,...

Peril & Prayer by Olivia Matthews

June 23, 2018

If you didn’t meet Sister Lou (Louise) LaSalle in the first mystery in the series, Mayhem & Mass, there’s no reason you can’t pick up the second cozy. Olivia Matthews gives enough backstory in Peril & Prayer to make it easy for a new...

A Stone’s Throw by James W. Ziskin

June 04, 2018

I’m late coming to James W. Ziskin’s Ellie Stone mysteries. I read his last book, Cast the First Stone, in which reporter Ellie Stone headed to Hollywood to cover the story of a hometown boy. But, I liked the new book, A Stone’s Throw, much...

A Death of No Importance by Mariah Fredericks

April 08, 2018

If you like compelling historical mysteries that portray social and class inequities, you might want to try Mariah Fredericks’ A Death of No Importance. Set during the Gilded Age, the story includes mining disasters, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire,...