Encore in Death by J.D. Robb

February 06, 2023

I would have expected that J.D. Robb’s Encore in Death, a police procedural set in the world of Broadway and Hollywood, would have been one of my favorites in the series. But, it wasn’t quite up to the tension of Desperation in Death, the previous book in...

Murder by Matchlight by E.C.R. Lorac

January 30, 2023

Every once in a while, I pick up one of E.C.R. Lorac’s mysteries, and Martin Edwards’ introductions just add to the enjoyment. Murder By Matchlight is set in London during World War II. As Edwards’ says, it’s not only an intriguing mystery, but...

Hide by Tracy Clark

December 28, 2022

Tracy Clark’s Cass Raines series won the Sue Grafton Award twice, and was nominated for a number of other awards. Hide, the first Detective Harriet Foster thriller, is even better with a well-developed, broken protagonist struggling to keep her life together one...

A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny

November 29, 2022

I’ll be the first to admit I wasn’t a fan of the last Gamache book, The Madness of Crowds. I won’t say I breathed a sigh of relief when I read the eighteenth book, Louise Penny’s A World of Curiosities. A reader can’t breathe a sigh of...

Death on a Winter Stroll by Francine Mathews

October 29, 2022

I’ve always been a fan of Francine Mathews’ police procedurals set on atmospheric Nantcucket Island. They aren’t published on a regular basis so any new one, such as Death on a Winter Stroll, is cause for celebration. And, the residents and visitors...