The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves

August 27, 2024

I reminded you earlier, and I’ll say it again, if you haven’t yet read Ann Cleeves’ The Rising Tide, you might want to pick it up before reading The Dark Wives. This eleventh in the series is a major spoiler for the previous one. In fact, there is a...

Agony Hill by Sarah Stewart Taylor

August 06, 2024

Because I’m such a fan of Sarah Stewart Taylor’s Maggie D’Arcy mysteries set in Ireland, I was a little reluctant to try the first in a new historical mystery series set in small-town Vermont in the mid-1960s. I should have known Taylor...

Death in Dark Glasses by George Bellairs

August 04, 2024

Lately, I’ve been picking up one of George Bellairs’ Inspector Littlejohn mysteries when I need a police procedural fix. Death in Dark Glasses was available through Kindle Unlimited, so I read the seventh in the series. There’s a little of everything...

Havoc by Deborah J. Ledford

July 30, 2024

Although I never read Redemption, the first “Lightning Dance” Duran mystery by Deborah J. Ledford, that didn’t prevent me from enjoying the second one, Havoc. Ledford easily slips readers into the landscape, rituals, and people of the Taos Pueblo...

The Burning by Linda Castillo

July 08, 2024

I’m always eager to jump back into the world of Police Chief Kate Burkholder in Linda Castillo’s series set in Ohio’s Amish country. The Burning is a violent, sometimes graphic novel that pits Burkholder against the Amish as well as her colleagues in...