Murder on “B” Deck by Vincent Starrett

January 02, 2022

Murder on “B” Deck was Vincent Starrett’s first mystery novel. While his best known book was The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, according to Starrett expert Ray Betzner, Murder on “B” Deck was his first mystery, and the one that...

If the Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy

August 02, 2021

Julie Murphy, bestselling author of the Young Adult novel, Dumplin’, takes on reality TV, the Cinderella trope, and the image of plus-size women in a magical romantic comedy for adults, If the Shoe Fits. She also manages to write about a stepmother and...

Thirty-One Bones by Morgan Cry

May 09, 2021

Maybe it’s my dark sense of humor, but Mother’s Day seems an appropriate day to post the review of a book in which a dead mother leaves behind a mess for her estranged daughter. Gordon Brown, writing as Morgan Cry, takes readers to Spain’s Costa...

The Company by Sally Spencer

May 08, 2021

Sally Spencer made an interesting narration choice in The Company. Part of the book covers the police investigation of a car “accident”, while one of the survivors, a man who was hospitalized with mental problems, is responsible for other aspects of the...

The Vanishing Museum on the Rue Mistral by M.L. Longworth

April 21, 2021

While M.L. Longworth’s The Vanishing Museum on the Rue Mistral is the ninth Provencal mystery, I had no problem starting with this one. You can certainly pick up the series here. It’s an unusual book, set in Aix-en-Provence and other towns in the area, a...