The Murder of Mr. Ma by John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan

April 02, 2024

I may be wrong. I often am when it comes to “Best of” lists at the end of the year. I suspect The Murder of Mr. Ma by John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan will be on a number of those lists. Deservedly so. The novel has a brisk pace, an intriguing background,...

A Fatal Lie by Charles Todd

February 13, 2021

I like Charles Todd’s Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries more than I do the Bess Crawford ones. However, I was disappointed in A Fatal Lie, the latest in the series. Chief Superintendent Markham of Scotland Yard is not happy with Rutledge, so he assigns him a case...

Penny for Your Secrets by Anna Lee Huber

October 23, 2019

I wish I had read Anna Lee Huber’s first two Verity Kent mysteries, but it can’t be helped. Penny for Your Secrets, the third in the series, caught my attention. I’ll be watching for future books featuring Verity Kent and her husband, Sydney. By...

A Cruel Deception by Charles Todd

October 20, 2019

While the shadows of politics in Charles Todd’s latest Bess Crawford mystery are interesting, the book itself was not. A Cruel Deception is a slow-moving, drawn out story that might appeal to the authors’ fans, but most of the rest of us will find it...

Murder in an English Village by Jessica Ellicott

October 31, 2017

Jessica Ellicott introduces two delightful characters in the first in a new series, Murder in an English Village. Travel back in time to 1920, just after the First World War, or The Great War, as it’s called in England. Beryl Helliwell is a famous American...